SODA WORKS

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.

We are excited to showcase the 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 program zum Download

Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald
I want revenge, grandma
15 & 16 November, 7 pm
Artist talk in English after the show on 16 November

Hana Umeda
RAPEFLOWER
19 & 20 November, 7 pm
Artist talk in English after the show on 19 November with Luke Pell

Isu Mignon Mignonne (異水 謎龍 未姩)
Miri Né Sori - your milky way
25 & 26 November, 7 pm
Artist talk in English after the shows on 25 & 26 November

Juana del Mar
Holding, A Flor de Piel
1 & 2 December, 7 pm
Artist talk in English after the show on 2 December

Burcu Bilgiç
Belly Talks with Ümral
7 & 8 December, 7 pm
Artist talk in English after the show on 8 December

Dalia Velandia    
No More Eggs for Breakfast
13 & 14 December, 7 pm
Artist talk in English after the show on 14 December

Archive Final Works

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

Read SODA WORKS Publikation

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.

Read SODA WORKS Publikation

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

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