SODA WORKS 2026
Final Works MA Solo/Dance/Authorship
Following two years of practice led research at the HZT Berlin, students graduating from MA Solo/Dance/Authorship present their final performance work. Each new group of students brings their own personal research questions to the MA SODA program and each year is different from the years before. The heterogeneous performances present a wide range of individual body-based performances. The works respond to and are driven by dance and choreographic modes of artistic practice within contemporary solo and collaborative processes.
With works by Joséphine Auffray, Fernanda Farah, Mica Kupfer, Emma Lanier, Josefina Maro, Johhan Rosenberg, Lina Schlageter, Noumissa Sidibé.
Documentation SODA WORKS
With works by Michael(a) Daoud, Jemima Dean, Leon Locher, 陸肇欣 Frieda Shao Shin Luk, Angélica Roa, Andrii Romanenko.
Download MA SODA Publication. Research Essays by the Graduate Students 2024–26
Evening programmes to download
- Andrii Romanenko „SHELTERS _in_direct strike“ 18. & 19.12.
- Jemima Rose Dean "Working Title" 11. & 12.12.
- Michael(a) Daoud "The Insisting Body: Chor(e)ographies of Erasure and Return" 5. & 6.12.
- Angélica Roa „To Critter“ 29. & 30.11.
- Leon Locher „Headline“ 23. & 24.11.
- 陸肇欣 Frieda Shao Shin Luk „This Uncharted Tongue 母知“ 17. & 18.11.
Works by Burcu Bilgiç, Juana del Mar, Isu Mignon Mignonne (異水 謎龍 未姩), Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, Hana Umeda, Dalia Velandia.
Publication MA SODA 2025 Body-based Artistic Research
Evening programs 2024 for download
- Dalia Velandia - No More Eggs for Breakfast 13 & 14 December
- Burcu Bilgiç - Belly Talks with Ümral 7 & 8 December
- Juana del Mar - Holding, A Flor de Piel 1 & 2 December
- Isu Mignon Mignonne (異水 謎龍 未姩) - Miri Né Sori - your milky way 25 & 26 November
- Hana Umeda - RAPEFLOWER 19 & 20 November
- Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald - I want revenge, grandma 15 & 16 November
Following two years of practice led research at the HZT Berlin, students graduating from MA Solo/Dance/Authorship presented their final performance work.
Tschoe One "Venn Bodies", 23.11.2023 (Premiere), 25.11.2023 19:00
Naledi Majola "In flux", 24.11.2023, 19:00 (Premiere), 25.11.2023, 21:00
Min-Suck Kim "Ang-ish Thing(s)", 01.12.2023, 19:00 (Premiere), 02.12.2023, 19:00
Nicole Wysokikamien “In my next performance I will make you laugh” 08.12.2023, 19:00 (Premiere), 11.12.2023, 19:00
Crispin Lord "Resurrection (A Bad Copy)", 09.12.2023, 19:00 (Premiere), 10.12.2023, 19:00
Matteo Haitzmann "Make it Count", 16.12.2023, 19:00 (Premiere)
Naledi Majola„In Flux“ was a performance of Black gender play, with suits and the performer’s body as its primary materials. An expression of a desire to become uncapturable. In Tschoe One "Venn Bodies" artists with different interests and backgrounds exchanged their works of art and interpret each other’s works from their own artistic perspectives, exploring the diverse relationships that emerge. In her body-based investigation "Ang-ish Thing(s)" Min-Suck Kim aimed to s(t)imulate the emergence of the Ang-ish Thing(s) as a parasitic being between cuteness and the monstrosity behind it. Nicole Wysokikamien "In my next performance I will make you laugh" unfolded like:
a childhood picture
an imagined choreography
a play on nostalgia
an impossible translation
a place between tenderness and sorrow
a question of how and what to dance
In Crispin Lord "Resurrection (A Bad Copy)" the performer was an assistant director. He is tasked with piecing together a revival of Peter Maxwell Davies’ music-theatre work Resurrection (1987). In Matteo Haitzmann "Make It Count" various disciplines were brought together using a technique called "Jumping Hypnosis".
Schedule SODA WORKS 2022
11. April 2022
19:30 hrs, Studio 1
12. April 2022
17:00 + 19:30 hrs, Studio 1
Cary Shiu: (in)forming dances, I try to touch
12. April After Talk after the show
21. + 22. April 2022
19:00 hrs, Studio 14
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso: Masterpiece
20:30 hrs, Studio 1
Bernardo De Almeida: Crocodile Tears
22. April: After Talk after the second show
29. April 2022
Studio 1
19:00 Uhr + 22:00 Uhr
30. April 17:00 Uhr + 19:00 Uhr
Brad Nath: Soundcheck in Studio 1
30. April: After Talk after the second show
29. + 30. April 2022
20:30 hrs, Studio 14
Yuske Taninaka: Gallop
30. April: After Talk after the second show
Free admission.
Performances SODA WORKS 2020/21
1. Xenia Koghilaki
Bang bang bodies
26. June, LIVE STREAM
Letter to Audience
2. Michalis Angelidis
The wind’s dreadful song
6. July VIDEO STREAM & LIVE TALK über Zoom
Letter to Audience
3. Michela Filzi
In someone else's shoes, metabolic encounters
9. July LIVE STREAM & LIVE TALK über Zoom
Letter to Audience
4. Armin Hokmi Kiasaraei
Public Dance, Permutable Stage
15. to 22. July Video-Documentation
PERFORMANCES SODA WORKS 2019
27 & 28.11.2019, 19 PM, Uferstudios
Bernardo Chatillon | Reindeer Age #00
4. + 5.12.2019, 19 PM, Uferstudios
Kuba Borkowicz | First Tattoo
4. + 5.12.2019, 21 PM, Uferstudio
Jorge De Hoyos | Spirited
11. + 12.12.2019, 19 PM, Uferstudios
Rhyannon Styles | Satellite
11. + 12.12.2019, 22:30 PM, Volkswagenbibliothek
Jason Corff| The Twenty-Second Seventh
18. + 19.12.2019, 19 PM, Uferstudios
Ana Lessing Menjibar | Perpetual Archive
18. + 19.12.2019, 21 PM, Uferstudios
Minna Partanen | CONSIMITY
The SODA WORKS opened up to questions of gender within the context of drag and queer performance, de-colonial ideas in relation to the personal as political, physics, Butoh and questions of notation, physical and linguistic representation, emergence and potentiality of public participation as well as notions of rave and celebration as an act of community.
22. + 23. November, Uferstudios 14
Nicola van Straaten: i'm haunting you now
Olympia Bukkakis : Tales From a State of Shemergency
29. + 30. November, Uferstudios 14
SODA1: Sneak Preview. Short works from next years emerging artists
Liadain Harriott: The Last Ten Yards
7. + 8. Dezember, Uferstudios 14
Michiyasu Furutani : 18
Evgenia Chetvertkova : C O Für “C O” ist eine vorherige Anmeldung notwendig.
14. + 15. Dezember, Uferstudios 14
Mmakgosi Kgabi : The Shape of Emotion - language is a shape, music is a shape, it is the shape
Mariana Nobre Vieira : Graduation Piece + Party mit DJ marum
Calendar
Publication Launch
"Artistic Research Publication" & "Classed Bodies: The Performance of Discrimination in the Arts"
Joséphine Auffray
Act of Sabotage
© Noumissa SidibéAct of Sabotage is a duel of perpetual sabotage, walking on the rubble of authority.
Josefina Maro
FLORES PA TU PELO: nocturnal journeys
© Josefina Maro FLORES PA TU PELO: nocturnal journeys is a waiting-room of uncanny comfort situated in technical collapse, grief, possibility, and ceremony. Welcome to the >
Noumissa Sidibé
a slow blink
I look for you my little since you slipped back under my bed come visit me again my sweet sweet I am boring myself to sleep. >
Johhan Rosenberg
TRIBUNAL
TRIBUNAL enters the unwritten contract between performer, audience and architecture.
Lina Schlageter
She comes for everyone
© Visu Landscape2Welcome, spectator. Here lie old parisian stories, skeletons in the closet, calls to the dead for help, thoughts about equality and anarchism, burning in >
Mica Kupfer
O DARK AMAZE
I walk, I run, I spectacularly stumble. With fascination and fear lurking around a disorienting five-square-meter wooden landscape, I am rehearsing >
Fernanda Farah
Reel Drama
© Marc SeestaedtGrowing up in the ’80s, I thought soap operas were real and newscasts fiction. Now the difference seems irrelevant. Intrigued about how people talk on >
Emma Lanier
Rehearsal for a Choreomania
© Marc Seestaedt A fantasy of the disorderly dances of the past and an invitation for the next choreomania (Tanzwut) to materialize. >