The Acker Stadt Palast in Berlin's Mitte district is a place where established artists and newcomers meet to experiment and reflect upon contemporary discourses. The focus of the venue, established in 2012, is on the connection between contemporary dance and new music. The Acker Stadt Palast offers the independent sector a novel interface between these art forms while also being interested in diverse aesthetic forms of dance and theatre.

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The Astrid Lindgren stage team is indebted to its namesake's credo: as an homage to the world-famous Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), Swedish author of children's and youngsters' books, our performances whisk the young audience away into a fantasy world full of adventure, poetry and music. Just like the singers and actors on stage, the whole team wants to encourage the children to be themselves and follow their fantasies and curiosity freely. The Astrid Lindgren stage has 559 seats and hosts a range of musical, dance and puppet shows but predominantly puts on its own repertory interpretations of Lindgren classics such as "Pippi Longstocking" and "Mio, My Son", or Otfried Preußler's "Little Aquarius".

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Since its re-opening as a trans-local theatre by Shermin Langhoff in 2008, Ballhaus Naunynstraße is a focal point for artists who in the majority position themselves as migrants or post-migrants. In recent years the search for new aesthetic and content-related impulses at Ballhaus induced a discourse on post-migrant cultural production which has had a lasting impact on the German-speaking theatre scene.

Wagner Carvalho is the new director at Ballhaus Naunynstraße (together with Tunçay Kulaoglu from the season 12/13 until november 2014). Carvalho had a determining influence on the artistic practice at Ballhaus right from the start, and, being pioneer of post-migrant artistic production, he represents continuity and diversification of content-related and aesthetic perspectives. He is not only dedicated to the continuation of post-migrant narratives but also set new priorities through focusing on diverse perspectives and positions like blackness, queerness or gender.

The promotion of young artists and the aim of creating new fields for experimentation for innovative artistic approaches by young talents within the akademie der autodiktaten is another important focus of work at Ballhaus Naunynstraße.

Ballhaus Ost is a production space for independent theatre, performance and dance.
Located in the former celebration and assembly hall of a Berlin Free Church Community, built in 1907, Ballhaus Ost cooperates with groups and artists from all fields of the performing arts, including well established groups and artists as well as newcomers and so far not well known participants of the independent theater scene.
As an experimental stage for various forms of contemporary theatre, Ballhaus Ost invites to experience and discover new ways of artistic debates with today's reality of life.

Before the venue was reestablished as theatre, in the GDR, the ballroom was used as „Casino des Handwerks“, after the breakdown oft he wall it was a pool hall and a night club. Ballhaus Ost was established by the directors Uwe-Moritz Eichler, Philipp Reuter and the actress Anne Tismer in 2006. Since 2011 Daniel Schrader and Tina Pfurr have been the artistic directors.

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The Brotfabrik Bühne (Bread Factory Theatre) in the Weissensee district of Berlin is an independent venue for touring shows and co-productions from Berlin's independent scene as well as national and international groups. The programme, comprising around 300 performances a year, evidence a diverse range of forms and genres, from plays, performance, dance and musical theatre to improvisation, puppet and object theatre. Young artists and groups regularly perform in the 40-80 seat auditorium alongside established theatre makers. Another focus of the programme is the productions for children.

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DOCK 11 EDEN ***** combines the areas of production, pedagogy and presentation in contemporary Dance spatially as well as structurally . Two places - DOCK11 at Kastanienallee and EDEN***** at Breite Straße in Pankow - offer over 90 courses for children, young people and adults from beginners to professionals. The long-standing success and the high quality of the weekly changing stage program has established DOCK11 EDEN ***** within the Berlin Theater, dance and art landscape. Main focus is the dance with further genre such as theater, film, performance, literature, fine arts and design. POOL Internationales Tanzfilmfestival takes place annually with over 600 submissions. POOL also offers portfolio courses in Videodance which are funded by the EU. In several studios in both places, national and international artists and companies of different divisions are producing their work; Furthermore different events such as the Healing Arts Festival AGAPE ZOE take place. Other festivals are Lithuania dance, Jerusalem meets Berlin, Hungarian dance Week, B!

DOCK 11 EDEN ***** combines the areas of production, pedagogy and presentation in contemporary Dance spatially as well as structurally . Two places - DOCK11 at Kastanienallee and EDEN***** at Breite Straße in Pankow - offer over 90 courses for children, young people and adults from beginners to professionals. The long-standing success and the high quality of the weekly changing stage program has established DOCK11 EDEN ***** within the Berlin Theater, dance and art landscape. Main focus is the dance with further genre such as theater, film, performance, literature, fine arts and design. POOL Internationales Tanzfilmfestival takes place annually with over 600 submissions. POOL also offers portfolio courses in Videodance which are funded by the EU. In several studios in both places, national and international artists and companies of different divisions are producing their work; Furthermore different events such as the Healing Arts Festival AGAPE ZOE take place. Other festivals are Lithuania dance, Jerusalem meets Berlin, Hungarian dance Week, B!

English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center is the German capital's only producing and presenting organization in the Hauptstadt expressly dedicated to English, the 21st century lingua franca, as the working language, as a bridge between cultures, countries and traditions. The theater collaborate with both English native speakers and non-native speakers in order to achieve a continuous exchange between artists of different backgrounds who mutually inspire and influence each other to create something new together.

The year-round programming comprises the Producing Series - Made in Berlin (in-house productions), the Presenting Series (selected international productions and work from Berlin's independent performing arts community), as well as the Performing Series (concerts, comedy and more from Berlin's English performing arts community) and Pedagogy Series (cultural and drama education).

The theater is a member of Berlin's freie Szene, the independent performing arts community, and is currently developing platforms to share the work within Germany and abroad. It consciously use theater and performance as living, discursive forms to bring artists and audiences into conversation with each other about our shared city and the greater world we live in.

The theater is located in the F40 Künstlerhöfe (F40 artists’ courtyard), a beautiful courtyard housing numerous studios and galleries, originally constructed as a brewery. It is part of the vibrant Bergmann Kiez, one of Berlin’s most popular neighborhoods and home to countless restaurants, cafés, bars and shops.

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Fliegendes Theater is a modern figure theater in Berlin. Since its founding in 1978, the theater has produced more than 40 plays for children and adults and has directed productions of other theaters. The multi-media productions are a combination of straightforward acting with puppets and objects, projections and live music. They tour regularly in Germany and the "rest of the world". "Die Mondtücher" (2006) and "Das Höhlenkind" (2016) was presended with the IKARUS Award in Berlin.

The Halle Tanzbühne Berlin is the production and performance venue of the cie. toula limnaios and its guests. In 2000, choreographer Toula Limnaios and composer Ralf R. Ollertz established a rehearsal space of their own in the protected historical building, which has since also become a workplace for a large number of other artists. In 2003, the Halle Tanzbühne became a self-financed theater and has since established an international reputation for itself as an important venue for contemporary dance.

The Halle Tanzbühne Berlin and cie. toula limnaios present dance, which keenly, critically and bravely takes a stand for humankind, made by and for humankind.

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon of current artistic positions at the interface of theatre, dance and performance. In addition, music, visual art and theoretical debates are a constant component of the wide-ranging programme. Since 2012 under the direction of Annemie Vanackere and her team, HAU is one of the most highly regarded and well-connected of international production houses. Both co-productions and touring productions by renowned artists and groups from all over the world are produced and shown here, as well as projects coming from the German and Berlin independent theatre and dance scenes. HAU provides production and touring management for selected artists. HAU stands for innovative formats that frequently attract attention far beyond Berlin, and provides impulse and inspiration for other art and culture producers. Festivals and thematic focal points are also a part of the programme, as is the Houseclub, especially targeting young people, where artists and students regularly work together side by side. With artist talks, introductions for groups and cooperation projects, HAU to connect creates a variety of connections. In addition, HAU Hebbel am Ufer puts on one of Europe’s most renowned dance festival every year, “Tanz im August”.

HAU Hebbel am Ufer operates three stages in three neighboring houses as well as one digital stage: HAU1 is a Art Nouveau building from 1908. The auditorium has 2 tiers with around 550 seats. The HAU2 and the HAU3 are black box stages with a capacity of 200 and 100 seats. The digital stage HAU4 can be reached at www.HAU4.de

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon of current artistic positions at the interface of theatre, dance and performance. In addition, music, visual art and theoretical debates are a constant component of the wide-ranging programme. Since 2012 under the direction of Annemie Vanackere and her team, HAU is one of the most highly regarded and well-connected of international production houses. Both co-productions and touring productions by renowned artists and groups from all over the world are produced and shown here, as well as projects coming from the German and Berlin independent theatre and dance scenes. HAU provides production and touring management for selected artists. HAU stands for innovative formats that frequently attract attention far beyond Berlin, and provides impulse and inspiration for other art and culture producers. Festivals and thematic focal points are also a part of the programme, as is the Houseclub, especially targeting young people, where artists and students regularly work together side by side. With artist talks, introductions for groups and cooperation projects, HAU to connect creates a variety of connections. In addition, HAU Hebbel am Ufer puts on one of Europe’s most renowned dance festival every year, “Tanz im August”.

HAU Hebbel am Ufer operates three stages in three neighboring houses as well as one digital stage: HAU1 is a Art Nouveau building from 1908. The auditorium has 2 tiers with around 550 seats. The HAU2 and the HAU3 are black box stages with a capacity of 200 and 100 seats. The digital stage HAU4 can be reached at www.HAU4.de

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon of current artistic positions at the interface of theatre, dance and performance. In addition, music, visual art and theoretical debates are a constant component of the wide-ranging programme. Since 2012 under the direction of Annemie Vanackere and her team, HAU is one of the most highly regarded and well-connected of international production houses. Both co-productions and touring productions by renowned artists and groups from all over the world are produced and shown here, as well as projects coming from the German and Berlin independent theatre and dance scenes. HAU provides production and touring management for selected artists. HAU stands for innovative formats that frequently attract attention far beyond Berlin, and provides impulse and inspiration for other art and culture producers. Festivals and thematic focal points are also a part of the programme, as is the Houseclub, especially targeting young people, where artists and students regularly work together side by side. With artist talks, introductions for groups and cooperation projects, HAU to connect creates a variety of connections. In addition, HAU Hebbel am Ufer puts on one of Europe’s most renowned dance festival every year, “Tanz im August”.

HAU Hebbel am Ufer operates three stages in three neighboring houses as well as one digital stage: HAU1 is a Art Nouveau building from 1908. The auditorium has 2 tiers with around 550 seats. The HAU2 and the HAU3 are black box stages with a capacity of 200 and 100 seats. The digital stage HAU4 can be reached at www.HAU4.de

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon of current artistic positions at the interface of theatre, dance and performance. In addition, music, visual art and theoretical debates are a constant component of the wide-ranging programme. Since 2012 under the direction of Annemie Vanackere and her team, HAU is one of the most highly regarded and well-connected of international production houses. Both co-productions and touring productions by renowned artists and groups from all over the world are produced and shown here, as well as projects coming from the German and Berlin independent theatre and dance scenes. HAU provides production and touring management for selected artists. HAU stands for innovative formats that frequently attract attention far beyond Berlin, and provides impulse and inspiration for other art and culture producers. Festivals and thematic focal points are also a part of the programme, as is the Houseclub, especially targeting young people, where artists and students regularly work together side by side. With artist talks, introductions for groups and cooperation projects, HAU to connect creates a variety of connections. In addition, HAU Hebbel am Ufer puts on one of Europe’s most renowned dance festival every year, “Tanz im August”.

HAU Hebbel am Ufer operates three stages in three neighboring houses as well as one digital stage: HAU1 is a Art Nouveau building from 1908. The auditorium has 2 tiers with around 550 seats. The HAU2 and the HAU3 are black box stages with a capacity of 200 and 100 seats. The digital stage HAU4 can be reached at www.HAU4.de

In 2009 the theatre company Heimathafen Neukölln launched a new folk theatre in Berlin´s most multi-cultural district Neukölln. With the motto "We are the people's theatre" and a diverse program of theatre productions, concerts, lectures and new show formats, Heimathafen Neukölln has given the district of Neukölln a new lively voice – made up by a crossover of styles, genres and cultures.

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The K77 is a small studio and venue in Prenzlauer Berg in a formerly occupied house, which still exists today as a house project. The studio is known for the first contact jams, establishing itself as CI in Berlin. The bearer of the studio is a non-profit association whose active members are involved in the program. The studio acts as both a place to teach; regular classes and workshops, weekly CI Jam and Open Morning, rehearsal space, residencies and as a stage and venue where artists have the opportunity to present their works.

It has a wide networking and works in cooperation with Ponderosa, the Lichtblick Kino, the Proberaumplattform Berlin, the Tanzscout Berlin and the Tanzraum Berlin.

LAKE Studios Berlin is a shared living and dance production space for 9 diverse residents (short and long term). They are primarily freelance movement artists working in diverse styles and methods of dance, yet there is a constant reflection which takes place between them daily; in form of dinner conversations, showings/discussions and other methods of exchange. 

The studios have existed as an artist run community living and dance space since May of 2013. Along with the two sprung wooden floor studios, there are diverse facilities alongside one another including a large garden, a wood workshop for set and prop building, sewing machines, a media lab/library, as well as some technical equipment -- such as a beamer, theater light set up, piano, cameras, mixer, and sound system. The space is unique because of its calm and concentrated working atmosphere as well as the friendly community of artists supporting the creation of work. Opportunities for showings are organized monthly, as well as professional trainings and curated workshops to support the movement of ideas and choreographic research.

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Berlin's fourth Opera House is unique in the diverse cultural scene of the capital and looks back on a productivity of 220 world premieres and debut performances in all genres in only 40 years. The Neukölln Opera is market leader and trademark for a vital, committed, and “deviced” musical theatre – opera is more than new productions of a known and limited repertory to which a few new commissioned works are occasionally added. The Opera is living proof that musical theatre can and needs to be self-made in order to bring our own life experience and subject-matters onto the stage, thus making mutual experience and exchange possible. 

As mentioned above, a theatre of that kind is a unique trendsetter in the operatic landscape of Berlin and Germany that is rich with forms, institutions, and subsidy. While the institutions commit themselves to answering the unchanging questions – meaning the interpretation of known works -, the Neukölln Opera goes the other way, asking new questions (inventing new pieces) and toying with possible answers.

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Q Space is a physical arts space for circus, dance, martial arts and bodywork. The aim is to provide a place for technique, creativity and self-development to flourish.

It was started in 2017 by Howard Katz and Liz Williams in order to create a home for their artistic projects and partners. Since then, Q Space has developed in wonderful ways. It is the home of Q Kids Circus, a children's Circus Program serving over 150 children with the opportunity to learn physically, mentally, socially and creatively. Q-Culture eV offers evening courses for adults in aerial acrobatics, yoga, dance and Feldenkrais. Q Space provides rehearsal and performance space for professional circus artists and performers and is the home of MAD Projects- Music Acrobatics Dance, a Berlin based Performance Company, working in the genres of circus, dance, music, theater and media.

Since its opening in September 2006, Radialsystem V has established itself on an international scale as a privately funded, innovative space for artistic encounters. It sees itself not only as an event location, which offers its spaces for performances, but also as a center of creative production for the development of new programs and event concepts. Artistic as well as current social trends, innovations and sentiments are taken up, then brought into dialogue and transmitted into artistic action.

From the beginning, Radialsystem V has been a place for experiments and is recognized worldwide as a pioneer, especially in terms of new performance formats. In 2018/2019, for the first time, Radialsystem V receives infrastructural funding to substantially support the project needs of the independent scene in Berlin.

Commercial renting (conferences, media productions etc.), however, continues to account for the majority of the operational financing. This entails a combination of current developments in art, science, economy and society.

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The Ratibor Theater is the home of Die Gorillas – a 15-person improv ensemble founded in 1997 at the intimate venue in Kreuzberg's Cuvry Str. They perform multiple improvised shows a week in various formats. The Ratibor Theater is also the homebase for Die Gorillas' now world-renowned Impro Festival. The festival is held every spring and invites groups from around the world to share their techniques for and perspectives on improvised theater.

In October 2014 the Ratibor began hosting the Impro Embassy: English-language shows with guest performers on the first tuesday of every month.

As a Senate-sponsored venue for the theater of things, the Schaubude Berlin has become a central platform of the genre and garnered international attention since it was founded in 1993. The programme unites different aesthetic approaches to contemporary puppet, figure and object theatre and presents the work of Berlin-based theatre artists alongside national and international guest productions, especially during the international puppet and object theatre festival Theatre of Things. There is also a strong focus on supporting the next generation of artists, with collaborations with the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and its Contemporary Puppetry degree programme, a special Young Scene programme section and the international festival for emerging artists in figure theater, Temptation.

In addition to presenting some 300 performances per season in the children’s and evening programmes, as well as staging festivals, the Schaubude Berlin offers a broad range of theatre education activities and discursive formats to teach artistic processes. Beyond this, the theatre also initiates numerous cross-genre encounters and thematic focuses.

The Sophiensæle is one of the most important locations for German-speaking independent art-production. Artists from Berlin, as well as the national and international theatre-scene are invited to produce and present their works here. They are selected on the basis of their artistic concepts, contents, and working schemes. The theatre is home to cultural discourse and a vast mix of artistic genres – from theatre, dance and music, to performance and visual art - which complement each other and enjoy a productive dialogue.

Alongside many young artists searching for new theatrical languages and forms of expression, a number of established artists and companies have longstanding partnerships with the Sophiensæle.

Die SPREEHALLE Berlin bietet künstlerische Hochspannung in Oberschöneweide. Berlins neuer Produktions- und Aufführungsort für transmediale und transkulturelle Musik, Kunst & Performing Arts elektrifiziert mit genreübergreifenden Installationen und Performances und mit immersiven Klangerlebnissen durch die eigens entwickelte 360°-Soundinstallation. Das künstlerische Programm zeigt starke Positionen von Berliner Künstler:innen und internationalen Gästen und setzt auf grenzüberschreitende Verbindungen – musikalisch, medial und menschlich.

Studio LaborGras is a forum for artists. Established in Berlin-Kreuzberg since 2002, the studio is a research, production and performance venue for contemporary dance. The studio is used by LaborGras and guests to develop and present their work. Daily training, regular workshops and the Impro on Stage series make up the primary points of encounter for professionals and the public. These exchanges are accompanied by workshop presentations, open rehearsals and performances.

The studio strives to offer artists a venue that corresponds to the current production demands of the independent dance scene. The entire infrastructure: studio, studio stage, foyer area, sound system, lights and lighting system, and computer with internet access, is made available with minimum bureaucratic effort.

LaborGras seeks intensive collaboration with other artists. The nature of each collaboration is newly defined with every project and takes into account the artistic and practical needs of all parties involved. As a production venue that strives for public outreach, the studio is unable to host touring productions in the conventional sense.

The studio Verlin is the daily workspace in central Berlin of the company Constanza Macras | DorkyPark and occasionally hosting events and public performances.

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Tanzfabrik Berlin works as an internationally known centre for Contemporary Dance. It offers space for rehearsals, production, artistic and theoretic research, advanced training, further education, workshops and regular classes. Its main aim is to focus on development, presentation and agency of contemporary dance in all of its diversity of choreographic and performative approaches. This includes the promotion of young artists, the connection of theory and practice and international exchange.

4 studios and an incorporated studio stage in Kreuzberg have accommodated continous artistic and educational practice. The studio stage offers an intimate character and ideal frame for the visualisation of artistic processes. The studios host choreographers, dancers, performers and amateurs and a diverse range of advanced education projects (regular dance classes, performance projects, professional contemporary training, intensive workshops and the 10 month dance intensive programme).

Since 2010 additional spaces in Wedding at Uferstudios (14 studios) offer structural advancement to artistic production. Two new studios, rented by Tanzfabrik Berlin host our artists in residence. The bigger Uferstudio 14 enables more complex presentations. It hosts the yearly program series and the Biennale Tanznacht Berlin.

Tanzfabrik Berlin works as an internationally known centre for Contemporary Dance. It offers space for rehearsals, production, artistic and theoretic research, advanced training, further education, workshops and regular classes. Its main aim is to focus on development, presentation and agency of contemporary dance in all of its diversity of choreographic and performative approaches. This includes the promotion of young artists, the connection of theory and practice and international exchange.

4 studios and an incorporated studio stage in Kreuzberg have accommodated continous artistic and educational practice. The studio stage offers an intimate character and ideal frame for the visualisation of artistic processes. The studios host choreographers, dancers, performers and amateurs and a diverse range of advanced education projects (regular dance classes, performance projects, professional contemporary training, intensive workshops and the 10 month dance intensive programme).

Since 2010 additional spaces in Wedding at Uferstudios (14 studios) offer structural advancement to artistic production. Two new studios, rented by Tanzfabrik Berlin host our artists in residence. The bigger Uferstudio 14 enables more complex presentations. It hosts the yearly program series and the Biennale Tanznacht Berlin.

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Tatwerk | Performative Forschung is a production centre and studio for the performing arts in Berlin. The artistic research focus in physical theatre, dance and performance with a particular attention to interdisciplinary projects. Tatwerk is a crossing point for artists who chose the body as material and the research as a tool for their work. The work consists in offering an artisic exchange platform for ideas, artistic practices and projects.

The main interest of Tatwerk concentrates on multidisciplinary, political and poetic projects in the field of the performing arts. It is particulary interested in the research of thematic and aestheitc tension fields beween different artistic, social and scientific disciplines. The resulting program consisting of classes, workshops and performance projects is completed by events and festivals where chosen artists present their work in form of previews, work in progress or ready productions. Furthermore, Tatwerk offers support in technical questions, in the production and PR. It opens our network and activate new, unexpected connections.

Tatwerk | Performative Forschung responds to the need of many artists for an open space and pursues long term work relationships.

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Theater Jaro is a theatre for children between two and nine and their families. All of Jaro's plays are written and produced by the theatre's proprietors themselves. The theatre group has had its own facilities since 2011. Jaro's repertoire comprises 15 plays, among them the classic "A Dinosaur in the Fridge", which has already been watched by 156,000 children. The plays combine the performance of actors and puppets in delightful and funny plays which are highly visual and contain lots of catchy original songs sung live on stage, many accompanied by on-stage musical instruments. Performances are in the afternoon on weekends as well as in the morning on weekdays, which is especially suitable for daycare and school groups. The theatre also has a café and toys for playing before and after the shows.

The Theater o.N. is an almost 40-year old association of actors and puppeteers, directors, musicians and writers. Founded in 1979/80 under the name Zinnober, it was the first independent theater in the former GDR. Since 2010 the theater located at the famous Kollwitzplatz is focusing on the exploration and advancement of theater for audiences 2 years and up. Since 2013 it is presenting the biannual “FRATZ International: Encounters – Symposium - Festival for the Very Young”. Since 2016 the regional 0-6-festival „Berlin Showcase“ is completing the program for young audiences.

In addition the theater is developing productions with children and teenagers in socially disadvantaged areas. The program for adults is dedicated to new play development using the methods of biographical theater and puppet theater.

Founded in 1987 as an independent theatre group, Strahl has performed on two permanent stages in Berlin-Schöneberg since the end of the 1999s and has an additional venue, STRAHL.Halle Ostkreuz since 2013. Strahl offers guest performances all through Germany and aboard, is invited to children’s and youth theatre festivals and is regularly nominated for and awarded theatre prizes. Strahl provides space for new artistic formats and ideas, plays with media, music and masks, abducts the audience in the interaction, combines dance with theatre and produces modern versions of classics.

Since 2013, Strahl has produced contemporary dance pieces for young audiences with international artists. Dance productions are a fixed part of repertory. The piece and programming developed by STRAHL are intended for audiences ages 12 and up and provide an access point to theatre for first timers. Young people are included into the play selection and development. The realities of their lives are explored on stage in a wide variety of aesthetic forms.

Founded in 1987 as an independent theatre group, Strahl has performed on two permanent stages in Berlin-Schöneberg since the end of the 1999s and has an additional venue, STRAHL.Halle Ostkreuz since 2013. Strahl offers guest performances all through Germany and aboard, is invited to children’s and youth theatre festivals and is regularly nominated for and awarded theatre prizes. Strahl provides space for new artistic formats and ideas, plays with media, music and masks, abducts the audience in the interaction, combines dance with theatre and produces modern versions of classics.

Since 2013, Strahl has produced contemporary dance pieces for young audiences with international artists. Dance productions are a fixed part of repertory. The piece and programming developed by STRAHL are intended for audiences ages 12 and up and provide an access point to theatre for first timers. Young people are included into the play selection and development. The realities of their lives are explored on stage in a wide variety of aesthetic forms.

Founded in 1987 as an independent theatre group, Strahl has performed on two permanent stages in Berlin-Schöneberg since the end of the 1999s and has an additional venue, STRAHL.Halle Ostkreuz since 2013. Strahl offers guest performances all through Germany and aboard, is invited to children’s and youth theatre festivals and is regularly nominated for and awarded theatre prizes. Strahl provides space for new artistic formats and ideas, plays with media, music and masks, abducts the audience in the interaction, combines dance with theatre and produces modern versions of classics.

Since 2013, Strahl has produced contemporary dance pieces for young audiences with international artists. Dance productions are a fixed part of repertory. The piece and programming developed by STRAHL are intended for audiences ages 12 and up and provide an access point to theatre for first timers. Young people are included into the play selection and development. The realities of their lives are explored on stage in a wide variety of aesthetic forms.

Theater Thikwa is one of the outstanding integrative theaters in the German-speaking world. These pioneers of inclusion celebrated their 25-year anniversary in 2016. Artists with and without officially recognized disabilities create dance and spoken-word performances in which comedy meets the experimental. The foundation of this "miracle of stage" (newspaper „Der Tagesspiegel“) is the first training center in Germany where the performing and visual arts can be chosen as a profession within a workshop for the differently-abled. Theater Thikwa engages to a very large extent with the particular personalities of its ensemble members. Adequate forms for the artistic expression are sought and developed. Thikwa is in constant touch with all kind of artists. Artistic exchange is being on continuously in Germany as well as internationally by collaboration, co-producing and intercultural projects.

Thikwa is also regularly invited to festivals, one-off performances, workshops and conferences throughout the world. The home base of this singular theatre company is F40 in Kreuzberg - the first completely barrier-free theatre in Berlin.

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Das Internationale Kultur Centrum ufaFabrik fördert engagierte Kultur, Kulturaustausch und kulturelle Bildung. Das Haus verknüpft lokale und internationale Kulturen und schafft so ein dynamisches Feld für die aktive, kreative Teilhabe an Kunst und Kultur für Jung und Alt.

Der Veranstaltungsort im Süden Berlins bringt fast täglich Künstler auf der Bühne: Das künstlerische Programm bedient die Genre Theater, Musik, Kabarett, Varieté, Tanz, Weltmusik, Kindercircus und Kindertheater.  Die ufaFabrik unterstützt Nachwuchstalente und junge, internationale Produktionen und stellt Arbeitsräume, Bühnentechnik, Logistik, fachliches Know how und „human resources“ zur Verfügung.

Das Team des Kulturcentrums vermittelt Kontakte zu internationalen Austauschprogrammen, Festivals und Institutionen und ermöglicht so den Zugang zur globalen Bühne. Die ufaFabrik arbeitet mit Partnern aus Ländern in Asien, Afrika und Südamerika und ermöglicht Residenzen/ Arbeitsaufenthalte für Künstler*innen und Kulturschaffende. Es werden Austauschprogramme für Fachkräfte entwickelt und organisiert, in den Bereichen Zirkus, Musik, Veranstaltungstechnik und Kulturmanagment. Prinzip ist stets der gegenseitige Erfahrungsaustausch auf Augenhöhe.

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Urbanraum is a space for dance, workshops, performances, rehearsals, and more. Contemporary, open, in Berlin Kreuzberg.