21.07 – 24.08.2025
Festivals
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13.06 – 16.06.2024
Soundance Festival
The soundance festival berlin was founded in 2017 and takes place annually. It presents projects by dancers, choreographers, musicians and composers from Berlin's independent scene and invites international guest artists. As a source of inspiration ...
21.07 – 24.08.2025
SUBMERGE: getting into the work
SUBMERGE celebrates choreography and artistic solidarity. The festival consists of workshops taught as precursors to performances. The workshops function as ...
21.09 – 19.10.2024
Emerging Change Tanzfestival
Emerging Change offers a dynamic curation of performances, workshops, residencies, community conversations, and celebrations with renowned and emerging international and ...
15.11 – 17.11.2024
Zeit für Zirkus Berlin
Zeit für Zirkus is the German counterpart to the French La Nuit du Cirque and aims to help contemporary circus ...
09.01 – 25.01.2025
Tanztage Berlin
Tanztage Berlin has become one of the most important national and international platforms for new choreographers in Berlin since its ...
18.01 – 26.01.2025
Purple Dance Festival
In addition to a professional stage program featuring numerous dance performances, the festival offers an extensive supporting program. In collaboration ...
Next Edition 2025
06.05 – 11.05.2025
Augenblick mal!
AUGENBLICK MAL! is the only nationwide festival of theatre for young audiences with supra-regional appeal in the capital city of ...
30.07 – 10.08.2025
Berlin Circus Festival
The Berlin Circus Festival is Germany’s leading festival for contemporary circus, held on the iconic Tempelhofer Feld. Over 12 days, ...
13.08 – 30.08.2025
Tanz im August
Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, is a festival for contemporary dance in Berlin. Founded in 1989, ...
10.09 – 14.09.2025
Tanznacht Berlin
Tanznacht Berlin presents the diversity of choreographic works by artists living and working in Berlin. Initiated in 2000, the festival ...
09.10 – 23.11.2025
Berlin Showcase
The Berliner Schaufenster is a festival featuring current productions for very young audiences in and from Berlin. Theater o.N. is ...
09.10 – 15.10.2025
FRATZ International
FRATZ International, organized by Theater o.N., invites the international children's theatre scene to Berlin every two years and presents extraordinary ...
31.10 – 05.11.2025
Theater der Dinge
The international festival Theater der Dinge is one of Germany’s most important festivals for contemporary figure and object theater. Choosing ...
20.11 – 23.11.2025
BAM! Berlin festival for contemporary music theatre
BAM! Berlin’s Festival for Contemporary Music Theater is the festival of the local independent music theatre scene. It focuses on ...
expected in 2025
Black Berlin Black
"Black Berlin Black" is the largest producing festival of political art from Black perspectives in Berlin: Through theater, literature, performance, ...
Next Berlin edition 2026
FIGURE IT OUT
FIGURE IT OUT wanders each year between Berlin, Leipzig and Stuttgart and presents the diversity of contemporary puppet and object ...
September 2024 till May 2025
Folds
Since autumn 2022, Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne's presentation format "Folds" has stood for a recurring condensation of artistic projects linked by ...
Sept. - Nov. 2025
IKARUS-Spielzeit
The IKARUS-Theater-Prize honors productions that make a visit to the theater a special experience for children and young people. Every ...
expected in autumn 2026
Le Lampenfieber
Le Lampenfieber is a young transnational theatre festival in Berlin that brings together emerging artists. With an annual theme, the ...
November 2025
Monologfestival
The Monologfestival at TD Berlin has been held every two years since 2007. In each edition, it coproduces up to ...
Between August und September 2025
Platforma Berlin
Since 2011, the Festival “Plataforma Berlin” presents artists, cultural workers and activists who address intersectionality, climate justice, decoloniality, ancestral knowledge ...
The Expo: A Showcase of Wahlberliner*innen
Since 2013, this annual festival has presented selected performances from the diverse yet often still undiscovered international independent performing arts ...
expected in summer 2026