{"title": "All that I left behind is here", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Pay what you can (3/5/10/15/20/25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/left-behind/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance", "society/class"], "description": "\"All that I left behind is here\" is a solo performance presented as part of the Shape Festival. Polish choreographer and performer Romuald Krężel, who lives and works in Berlin, returns to his first dance experience – a free ballroom dance class at his primary school – and relearns styles such as cha-cha-cha, rumba and jive to examine aspects of classism in the performing arts. Echoed by ghostly figures and post-punk music, the audience is led through Krężel's past, culminating in a moving conversation with his mother about class, body, work, shame and dance. The performance uses spoken English and Polish with German translation and features loud sounds, strobe lights and fog.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/all-that-i-left-behind-is-here-10008/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3485/2026-10-30-18-00", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "All that I left behind is here", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Uferstudios: Uferstudio 1", "address": "Badstraße 41a 13357 Berlin", "price": "Pay what you can (3/5/10/15/20/25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/left-behind/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/dance", "society"], "description": "\"All that I left behind is here\" is a solo performance by Romuald Krężel that draws on his personal and artistic experience. The Polish choreographer, based in Berlin, returns to his very first dance experience, a free ballroom dance course at his primary school, to examine various aspects of classism in the performing arts. By relearning and critically reflecting on movements, steps, poses and styles such as cha-cha-cha, rumba and jive, he investigates his social background and its relation to his current choreographic practice. Echoed by ghostly figures and post-punk music, the audience is led through Krężel's past, culminating in a moving conversation with his mother about class, body, work, shame and dance.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/all-that-i-left-behind-is-here-16645/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3485", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7fc01fa7e78e8d65c265c58d23ab62ad06f0e948b201491b30bb439026289866-600.webp"}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "dance", "tags": ["history/cold-war", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance at the Tränenpalast, a significant Berlin memorial site and former border crossing. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which since 2003 has combined professional dance production with sociocultural practice; it is realised jointly with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation as part of Berlin Freedom Week. The performance explores crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, leaving behind homeland and the familiar, and the courage to step into the unknown. At this place of farewell and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, inviting the audience to experience the Tränenpalast as a place of remembrance and of new encounters.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-30497/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": ""}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES Tanzperformance zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://app.cituro.com/booking/3221113?presetService=11f1bb401d37e788bf1b918037f4ae89", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance staged for Berlin Freedom Week. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which has combined professional dance production with socio-cultural practice since 2003, together with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation at the Tränenpalast. The performance deals with crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, as well as leaving behind home, language and the familiar. In the Tränenpalast, a place of farewell, control and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, asking which borders people had and still have to overcome.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-tanzperformance-zur-berlin-freedom-week-7137/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/01d7f31a0635db0e4343515ffb94a51dc3b5f4334e7f7a9b0eeddd5c51ec88dd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Contemporary Dance Class (Elizaveta)", "start": "2026-10-29T18:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-29T19:45:00+01:00", "place": "Urbanraum", "address": "Urbanstraße 93, 10967 Berlin", "price": "10–20 Euro (bar oder Überweisung) bzw. Registrierung über USC", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "„Contemporary Dance Class (Elizaveta)“ is a contemporary dance class at UrbanRaum that takes place weekly. It is led by Elizaveta Poliakova, who studied classical ballet for nine years, including seven at the Moscow State Choreography Academy of the Bolshoi Theatre, and teaches contemporary dance and improvisation in Berlin. The class is based on dynamic improvisations and technical sequences that carry a story or poem behind the movements, developing technique, flexibility, musicality, creativity and presence. Registration is possible via USC or email; without USC you can pay between 10 and 20 euros in cash or by bank transfer.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/contemporary-dance-class-elizaveta-10092/", "official_url": "https://urbanraum.com/veranstaltung/contemporary-dance-class/2026-10-22/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a4953253741d508122dfa901959b108c87b8368fa061978b00121322a3365082-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ferien-Tanzworkshop Ballroom ( kostenfrei)", "start": "2026-10-28T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Heimathafen Neukölln", "address": "Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["community/kids", "dance/ballroom"], "description": "STEP INTO BALLROOM is a free holiday dance workshop where young people aged 12 to 18 can discover the world of voguing and ballroom. It is run by Jugendweihe Berlin/Brandenburg e.V.; together with Legendary Mother Leo St. Laurent, Litchi St. Laurent and guest teachers from the Berlin ballroom community, participants explore voguing, runway, posing, styling and the culture of the ballroom scene. No previous experience is needed, single days can be attended, and at the end everyone celebrates a shared mock ball with a DJ, MC and jury. BIPoC and queer young people are especially welcome.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/ferien-tanzworkshop-ballroom-kostenfrei-67915/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "I want revenge, grandma", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Pay what you can (3/5/10/15/20/25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/grandma/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"I want revenge, grandma\" is a performance and dance work by Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, presented as part of the Shape Festival. The artist, rooted in Liberia's Kpelle community, asks about the colonial relationship between Liberia and Germany and what it reveals about Europe's centuries-long oppression of Africa and its people. In a sensual, multi-layered performance she invites the audience to face old wounds, hard shells and dusty museum display cases, to remember them and to break them open. Using her own framework of the four R's – restitution, reparations, revenge and return – she connects analysis of the past with concrete demands for the present and future.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/i-want-revenge-grandma-10004/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3483", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/dac8f0a3a5c2254de440b00dc1d0276e4a7b6b24d945add346451684208fa667-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Performance-Lesung: „Working Class Daughters. Über Klasse sprechen“", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "StbMitte", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading", "society/class"], "description": "A performative reading based on the book „Working Class Daughters. Über Klasse sprechen“. Karolina Dreit and Kristina Dreit have worked together under this title since 2018, examining class relations at the intersection of care, structure and experience. Their 2024 book draws on interviews arranged as „conversations at the kitchen table“, many of the interviewees work or worked in the arts and culture sector. In the reading, the two create a space where different voices speak for themselves and at once invite self-questioning.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/performance-lesung-working-class-daughters-uber-klasse-sprec-3029/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ebb522237a34ac0f747c80b44d5195c2a2839db057de52eb67e34b590c440a01-600.webp"}, {"title": "Shaping Reflections #1", "start": "2026-10-30T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "dance"], "description": "\"Shaping Reflections #1\" is a discussion format of the Shape Festival that opens each festival day by bringing artists and the audience together. It is moderated by six 16-year-old teenage curators from Berlin, who developed and curated the festival together with Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE. In a room arranged in two circles, visitors can talk with the day's artists in the inner circle while the outer circle is for listening; switching between the circles is flexible at any time. Admission is free, the event is held in spoken German, and the space is accessible at ground level.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/shaping-reflections-1-10005/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3491/2026-10-30-15-00", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c3d6f8eb55d5e0f7380ce7aa0099a564fdc82d9f927e4796418cffcad45e7f67-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Musiktheaterperformance zu Strawinskys „Le Sacre du Printemps“", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Konzerthaus Berlin", "address": "3, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Erwachsene 12 Euro, Schüler*innen 8 Euro", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.konzerthaus.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?da=11.11.2026&uz=19:00&spst=20", "category": "dance", "tags": ["music/classical", "stage/musical"], "description": "A musical theater performance based on Igor Stravinsky's „Le Sacre du Printemps“, staged as a prologue to the nowHERE festival and aimed at visitors aged 14 and up. The Künstler*innenkollektiv Phantasten performs the ballet music in a version for piano four hands. Four performers question themselves, teenagers in Berlin and the audience: what are people willing to give, can sacrifices achieve something, and who or what are the victims of our actions? The concept and direction are by Anselm Dalferth, with Annekatrin Klein and Sinforosa Petralia at the piano.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/musiktheaterperformance-zu-strawinskys-le-sacre-du-printemps-7285/", "official_url": "https://www.konzerthaus.de/de/programm/musiktheaterperformance-zu-strawinskys-le-sacre-du-printemps/13247", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7e0c1eeeb9cba556b9fc74b7999e33b75f7d7ad453c4983e53519f8362f30136-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ferientanzworkshop (Ballroom) Neukölln Kinder und Jugendliche", "start": "2026-10-19T02:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-10-30T01:00:00+01:00", "place": "Heimathafen Neukölln", "address": "Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.gratis-in-berlin.de/component/flexicontent/13-festivals/2081006-wine-in-the-city-vom-shoppen-zum-schoppen", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/ballroom", "diy/upcycling"], "description": "Ferientanzworkshop (Ballroom) Neukölln Kinder und Jugendliche is a free voguing and ballroom workshop called STEP INTO BALLROOM for young people aged 12 to 18, near Hermannplatz. It is run by Heimathafen Neukölln, which together with Legendary Mother Leo St. Laurent, Litchi St. Laurent and guest teachers from Berlin's ballroom community covers voguing, runway, posing, fashion and the history of ballroom culture. In a styling and upcycling lab participants create their own looks, and it ends with a mock ball featuring a DJ, MC and judges. No prior experience is needed; participation is possible on all or individual days, and BIPoC and queer youth are especially welcome.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/ferientanzworkshop-ballroom-neukolln-kinder-und-jugendliche-17584/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/18175824e9e3405216f872c244771c00e336a880cac935931e6aea0cc2e891bb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ana Pi", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KW Institute for Contemporary Art", "address": "Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://kw-shop.visitate.net/de/tickets/2041", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance"], "description": "'NoirBLUE – side B' is an in-situ solo performance taking place in the KW Institute for Contemporary Art's attic. Brazilian choreographer and artist Ana Pi moves there between concepts of uprootedness, belonging, memory, colours and everyday gestures, starting from healing processes and the radical imagination of dance of the Transatlantic African Diaspora. It grew out of an etymological observation that some historical languages have no word for 'blue' and even reject the word for 'black', from which the artist imagines an Atlantic journey between the blackness of skin and ultramarine blue pigment to undermine structures of invisibility. At the KW, choreography and black light alter the perception of the body, while the vinyl soundscape rooted in dub music by Jideh High Elements carries the gestures into a space of timeless permanence – amid KOO JEONG A's installation [ SEVEN STARS ], made of phosphorescent paintings.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/ana-pi-33809/", "official_url": "https://www.kw-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/ana-pi-noirblue-side-b", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/277d713c425931bc8757b82bdb6a914fb39c63b634f493422a94e515b5f22666-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Contemporary Dance through Latin American and queer perspectives", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Village.Berlin", "address": "Kurfürstenstraße 31-32, 10785 Berlin", "price": "0,00 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wearevillage.org/shop/soul-of-skin-training/w02-2024", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "A workshop on contemporary dance through Latin American influences and queer perspectives at Village.Berlin. It is led by Roque Vargas, a queer dancer from Peru who lives in Berlin. Participants use movement to reconnect with body, identity and personal expression. Improvisation, floorwork, technical exercises and choreographic sequences are offered for all levels.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/contemporary-dance-through-latin-american-and-queer-perspect-68689/", "official_url": "https://wearevillage.org/shop/queer-bridges-monday/w46-2026", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/2cf87369ef5d2f1998bb0a939443357bb1a3be527bd0643cd996256a00cbb2fd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dragana Bulut: Membering", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10€/15€/20€/25€", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://sophiensaele.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/553769", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Membering is a participatory performance that invites the audience to practise a collective form of repairing together with the performers. Choreographer Dragana Bulut starts from a personal family history marked by war, fascist violence and loss. Around fragments, memories and inherited stories, everyone moves through acts of restoration, therapy and archiving. Membering asks how grief travels through bodies, generations and collective memory, and how we can carry it together.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/dragana-bulut-membering-20017/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/membering", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/92ab556ca0af8ae43f6db3c8d6d060ee5ccce4df9d5b42af89abf10f3b6fec8d-600.webp"}, {"title": "NEW TECHNIQUES XVII: Naledi Majola", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "A showing performance as part of the Sophiensæle residency programme NEW TECHNIQUES, taking place in the Hochzeitssaal. South African choreographer and performer Naledi Majola, who lives in Berlin, is developing a group performance practice with Sarhaly aka Goldie, Chiyedza Mukada and musician and vocal teacher Lindiwe Pale, guided by the question \"How do we sing through the body?\". The research is inspired by the history of Black South African musicians during apartheid who lived in exile in the West, and translates musical principles such as rhythm, call-and-response and repetition into movement and voice research. Duration: 1h 30 min., free admission with registration.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/new-techniques-xvii-naledi-majola-31729/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/new-techniques-xvii-naledi-majola", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/0a440795b9712d0787bb6a31740f1e6d63005b3ad80bc2d873677249515b1740-1200.webp"}, {"title": "There is a Table in this House", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Pay what you can (3/5/10/15/20/25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/this-house/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance", "society/politics"], "description": "\"There is a Table in this House\" is a choreo-performance presented as part of the Shape Festival. It examines the ethical and political aspects of gathering, especially in times of upheaval. The work combines embodied performance, participatory installation and communal dialogue, creating a space of radical care and political responsibility. It was conceived and is performed by hn. lyonga, with thanks to Markus Posse.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/there-is-a-table-in-this-house-10007/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3486", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/4a81fb9d36c11aabeac467c1b1981388e56ab4339f7367e7bc3aac57b3f01a99-1200.webp"}]}