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A b o u t T h e P i e c e : Finding a balance between societies expectations and our individual emotional authenticity is crucial for a healthy and fulfilling life. The pressure of current societal structures in countries of the global north makes it difficult to find the space to feel and really listen to each other. Societal external coercion can become self compulsion and we lose the connection to our emotions more and more.
Are we still able to embrace our feelings and exist as emotional beings? What would change if we gave more space to our emotions?

A u r o r a B r o c c h i is a dancer and multidisciplinary artist based in Germany. She began her career in dance after graduating from the Contemporary School of Hamburg CDSH in 2021. She has been exploring multidisciplinary arts by creating art works, choreographies and installations which combine those. Aurora recently realized her book “If flowers would not wither”: a book of poetry that talks about changes, life, death, healing processes, movement’s connections and shared spaces. She works with the Current Dance Collective in Hamburg, with which she performed three productions “Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity made flesh”, “Rave New World” and “The End Is Important In All Things”. Furthermore, she performed adurational piece, Life on the Planet Orsinamnirana in the Museum of Künste und Gewerbe in Hamburg, first working with the choreographer Ursina Tossi and later on with Jersey Seymour and The Dirty Art Department. In 2023/2024 she worked at the City Theatre in Oldenburg in the Opera production “Die Tote Stadt”. Aurora performed her own pieces “A door to a place I have never seen” in Berlin at Glogau Air Residency, “If flowers would not wither” in Budapest at School of
Disobedience and in Shoonya Center for Art and Somatic Practices in Bangalore, India. In addition to that she has worked with the choreographers Yolanda Morales,
Abhilash Ningappa, Anand Dhanakoti.
“I dance, move, create, paint, write and wonder. I see life through art or the other way around. I’m interested in people, in human bodies and minds, the physical space they occupy and the way those influences each other. I work with images, words, and sensations. I explore and observe my own healing process through movement and body’s connections. I trust vulnerability, and I think sharing is the most enriching thing that we can experience.”

https://www.instagram.com/aurorabr__/

M i l e n a J u n g e is a freelance dance artist, working as a performer, choreographer and dance teacher since 2016 and is mainly based in Berlin, Hamburg and London. She is part of the ‘Current Dance Collective’ in Hamburg, with which she performed the piece “Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity made flesh” at the Hamburger Sprechwerk in 2022 and 2023. She choreographed two Opera Piccolas at the State Opera of Hamburg: „Die Reise zum Mond“ (2023) and „Die beiden Fiedler“ (2019). Milena has been part of a big variety of different productions ranging from Musicals to contemporary dance theatres and performed in two productions with the Theaterhalle am Dom in Würzburg (2019 and 2021: Choreographies by Thomas Kopp and Hannes Langolf). In the summer of 2023, she was the choreographer’s assistant and dancer in the Opera “Damnation de Faust” at the City Theater of Erfurt.
In January 2024 she is premiering as the solo dancer of the Opera “Carmen” at the theater of Münster, where she is also working as the choreographer’s assistant. As a
dance artist Milena has been part of many different kinds of contemporary productions, dance theatres, performances and was able to also work as a choreographer and director/co- director in different productions. At the beginning of 2023 she finished her Bachelor in Sociology and Sign Languages. She combines her interests about critical societal topics with her passion of movement and dance to create relevant art for today’s society. This Duo is her first own contemporary choreography project where she is a dancer and choreographer at the same time.

https://instagram.com/milenasoniajunge

In recent years, Berlin-based DJ Barox has become known, particularly for his Italo disco and eclectic selections, to the local Berlin and international communities.  Resident at Eschloraque in Berlin and Antic teatre in Barcelona he has been a guest DJ in many other venues, celebrated and recognized for his special Groove and ability to combine different facets of electro/disco music.

MAF, das Konzept der „Mental Alchemic Formations“ des Multi-Genre-Künstlers Chris McWayne, schöpft aus der sowohl positiven wie auch negativen Energie, die innerhalb und außerhalb des eigenen Selbst existiert. Ein Prozess der Transformation des Selbst, der sich aus den Prinzipien der Alchemie, der Hermetik und der Zen-Praxis ableitet und als Vehikel für künstlerische Erkundungen dient. Jedes Projekt wird zu einer neuen Selbsterkundung und bildet ein neues Fundament für zukünftige Strukturen – nichts bleibt
statisch, alles existiert in Fluss und Rhythmus.
Seit über 15 Jahren entwickelt er eine multidisziplinäre Praxis, die etwa Hip-Hop, elektronische Musik, Sounddesign, Komposition, Installation, Klangkunst, Schauspiel, Kuration wie auch Bewegungskunst umfasst und die er im Eschschloraque mit no wave, synthpunk und post punk auslebt. Diese Praxis führte außerdem zu Projekten wie Brother Aten, The Nekoma Void, Nommo, and Black Grain Meditation.
MAFs Sounddesign bedeutet eine „sonic experimentation to explore an ever-expanding universe“, das sich am 27.01.2024 im Mikrokosmos Eschschloraque entfaltet.

https://www.mafisunavailable.com/

on the decks: Mr.B & MissVergnügen

Seit 1989 gilt: ob in einem kleinen Club, einer guten Bar oder auf einem schrägen Festival. Aussenborder schiebt mit seinen Platten durch die Nacht - jenseits von Genre oder BPM Grenzen. Überraschende Ausflüge und Gedankensprünge machen es für die Gäste zu einem wilden Ritt der verführt: zum Unbekannten! Move your ass and your mind will follow!

“invisible person” seeks to work between dance, butoh theatre, performance and speculative mechanisms, to consider the process of creating a bodily archive through performance. This dance specifically is constructed of a series of images that are based both on concrete memories and objects, as well as imaginations and speculations.

MEGAN BRAILEY is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary performance artist, movement practitioner, researcher, archivist and writer. Brailey’s work spans dance, butoh theatre-dance, performance and installation art, immersive theatre, and spoken word poetry. They primarily investigate the embodiment of cultural histories, gender and class politics, philosophical concepts and psycho-somatics.

Vibration pulsiert durchs Innere, Bass synchronisiert den Herzrhythmus, bewegt jeden einzelnen Muskel ... und in dieser Bewegung liegt Freiheit: sich vollkommen im allumgebenden Sound fallen und von ihm mitreißen zu lassen, der mit jedem Break die Leidenschaft der DJ auf die Tanzfläche transportiert. Wenn Sound in Worte gefasst werden kann, dann äußern sich so die Kraft und Stärke einer Klangsprache, deren Tenor ein packendes „BassBombardement“ ist: Denn kaum eine DJ hat die Bässe von den Turntables aus so in der Hand wie Vela!

Die Berliner DJ und Künstlerin ist international erfahren, tourte weltweit und legte bei verschiedenen Festivals auf, wie beispielsweise beim Fusion Festival, bei der Berliner Love Parade, dem Glade Festival (UK) oder dem Smile Rave-Festival (Texas, USA). Dass sie Erfahrung und ein Feingefühl für die Musik- und Clubszene miteinander verknüpft, zeigte Vela bereits als Resident-DJ in legendären Berliner Clubs wie Maria – von der Eröffnung bis zur Schließung –, rund fünf Jahre im Tresor und setzt es an verschiedenen Hotspots der Underground- und Clubkultur fort: seit 1999 im Eschschloraque, mit einer neuen Partyreihe im ://about blank oder regelmäßigen DJ-Sets im Solar Berlin.

Ihr „BadAssBassBombardement“ ist der Begriff für eine packende Soundwelt, die sie selbst auf den Punkt bringt: „My music style changed through out the years from BreakBeat to Electro to House to TechFunk to Techno … But it was always, and still is, best described as I’m-going-to-kick-your-arse-onto-the-dance-floor-and-you-will-like-it-and-beg-for-more!!!“
Man kann gar nicht anders, als sich von ihrer Power und ihrem Charme mitreißen zu lassen – „and of course we will beg for more!

Text: Vera Fischer