Geisterhaus

For the five-day period of the festival, Schaubude Berlin will be transformed into a haunted house! We invite the audience to join us on a parkour through the entire theater: the six works commissioned from Berlin-based artists move fluidly along the borders between performance and installation and search for the ghosts of our times in six individually designed experiential spaces. In small groups, the members of the audience experience intensive encounters and surprising moments in which the boundaries between subject and object become blurred and the relationship between human beings and their environment is called into question anew. Tactile tour: on November 9 at 17:30 as well as November 10 at 16:00, we will offer a tacile tour through the performative exhibition with an audio description. In order to take part, please register by November 8 at 12pm by sending an email to Information About Accessibility: You can find information about the physical accessibility of the performance venue here . The members of the audience will move throughout the entire building in small groups. The performance locations of the works Schule der Puppen (School of the Puppets) and Dressing Room are only accessible by means of stairs and one staircase is somewhat steeper. In order to reach the performance location of Pas de Ghost, one step has to be traversed. For the most part, there are no places to sit available and the audience will be packed in more closely together in some of the performance locations. The members of the audience will be invited to take part in interactions at some parts of the installation. Geisterhaus is a production of Schaubude Berlin with works that have been commissioned from Neïtah Janzing, the KMZ Kollectiv, Macromatter, Naoko Tanaka, Theater Textura and Guests and theatreworks. Audio description Felix Koch

dressingroomMacromatter With minimal English spoken language Using sewing equipment passed down from her grandmothers, Robin redesigns the costumes they made together in her youth. Each stitch honors her familial matriarchs while communing with the ghosts of the characters she once portrayed. This journey of remembrance and creation allows Robin to connect with her past while shaping the woman she aspires to become. Dressingroom is an intimate meditation on identity, legacy, transformation, and the playful power of dress up to imagine one’s way in the world. Performance, direction, scenography, costumes Robin Leveroos Music Romain Frequency aka Electrosexual

Pas de GhostTheater Textura and Guests In German spoken language I am your shadow, your doppelganger, your dark duplicate. I show you the silhouette of your dance, which is reflected in the fall of the folds of the light. Recognize yourself in the viewing of yourself as illusion or truth. In Pas de Ghost , the shadows of the bodies of puppets have their say. In the light of a candelabra, they show themselves fragmented in a row and standing in for the human in the body of a puppet. This performative installation deals with questions of the post-Enlightenment era on the borders of the supernatural and reality. Direction, text, choreography Esther Nicklas Scenography Esther Nicklas, Grit Wendicke Music Joel Grip, Franziska Hoffmann Dance video Esther Nicklas (Tanz), Christian Ulrich (cut, design)

Schule der Puppen (School of the Puppets)theatreworks In German spoken language Are you on the lookout for a moment of direct intimacy, a moment, in which your body is filled by another body? Then please take a seat and open yourself open to the magic of transformative energy. Experience how you an inanimate object can become an autarch creature through you. Atif Mohammed Nour Hussein has developed a participatory experiment for Geisterhaus : In Schule der Puppen , the visitors experience what it means to see the world through puppets and how a symbiotic relationship between humans and objects can come into being. Performance Sylvia Barth Direction, text, scenography Atif Mohammed Nour Hussein

thing(s)Neïtah Janzing In German and English spoken language Hands. Hand that morphs, that increase in size and that become distorted. Hands that multiply and take over the room. Hands that dangle. Menacing. Above people and heads. The hands that create, shape and destroy. Arms, faceless, that express fear or love or surprise. Sometimes they also plead for help…are the hands pleading for help? Or is it greed? In Neïtah Janzing’s contribution to Geisterhaus , the audience becomes part of a poetic ritual under supernatural and inhuman hands. Scenography Neïtah Janzing Music Astra Pentaxia

Träume der Materie #1: Schlafen im Wald (Dreams of the Material #1: Sleeping in the Forest)Naoko Tanaka Without spoken language How can one approach the interior of the forest? Possibly through the state of sleep? Could one possibly even live among the collective dreams of the plants and insects? Naoko Tanaka researches these questions as an artistic experiment. For Geisterhaus , she has created a space of ideas: Here, the “consciousness” of the non-human creatures takes over the empty theater auditorium and develops an artistic language from the dreams of the forest. Oscillating between the conditions of being awake and sleep, light and shadows, material and energy, a fantasized perspective unfolds as an installation-based arrangement. Installation, sound, performance Naoko Tanaka Supported by Fellowship-Programm from PACT Zollverein

Warm wie die Kohle (Warm Like Coal)KMZ Kollektiv In German and Spanish spoken language Since the beginning of the sanctions as a result of the war in Ukraine, coal from Latin America has been in demand like never before. The imports from Colombia have increased by nearly two thirds. But what exactly is being mined there and transported to Germany? The KMZ Kollektiv asks which worlds and cosmologies are being endangered by fossil and green extractivism. In Warm wie die Kohle , four artists explore their understanding of spirituality: in their contribution to Geisterhaus , they share their rituals and their connections to the ghosts that exist in their lives. Concept, performance, text, scenography KMZ Kollektiv (Antonio Cerezo, Yahima Piedra, Daniela del Pomar, Laia RiCa) Musik Yahima Piedra Video Daniela del Pomar