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Joy Alpuerto Ritter, a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer whose award-winning work combines ballet, contemporary dance, street dance and Philippine dance traditions, explores different notions of beauty in her performance project – who defines it, and what meaning do we give it in life? Rainer Behr, a longtime dancer of the Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal and a much-awarded choreographer, takes the time loop as a starting point to break through repetitions through risk and experiment. 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Together with dancer Nasheeka Nedsreal, he seeks to warp the postcolonial order of images. 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The performance draws on texts by Walter Benjamin and Arwa Salih that write history from the perspective of the oppressed and the defeated, tracing a moment of political loss. Loss is understood not only as an ending, but as a question of what failed and how defeat might be rethought as a space of reflection and community.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/enad-marouf-losers-16533/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/losers", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/d159a46baa1c8903710bbe2f93c74ab99b83b9f799ea31d54f7eee7df0f399ac-600.webp"}, {"title": "Metaxy - Leonis Works x Norman Nodge", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Atelier Gardens Berlin", "address": "Oberlandstraße 26–35 12099 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://jungesfeld.de/2025/10/15/sinnich/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["music/electronic", "society/philosophy", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Metaxy is an immersive dance performance loosely inspired by Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. 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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. 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Behind it is Evelin Facchini, choreographer and movement director of SAN PAOLO – The Martyrdom of Pasolini. Rather than understanding change as a linear process, the workshop works with contradiction, uncertainty and conflicting impulses as materials for movement and collective experience. It asks how different positions can coexist within a body and within a group, and how difference can shape a shared space without being resolved into agreement.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/berlin/events/workshop-contradiction-as-practice-the-body-between-doubt-an-24236/", "official_url": "https://theateruntermdach-berlin.de/produktion/workshop-contradiction-as-practice-the-body-between-doubt-and-conviction/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/b6f6f256cdefeea6b548c2cce8005cbfd8da4b6f2bf3077fbfa7ce0c4136ed31-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Shaping Reflections #2", "start": "2026-10-31T15:00:00+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": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "„Shaping Reflections #2\" is a discussion event held as part of the Shape Festival, opening each festival day. 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