performancES night
27.06
19h - doors open
19h30 - Glitch Choir
20h-21h - break + dinner
21h - Restes (Offrande au million)
23h - closing
deva
schubert&
chihiro araki
schubert&
chihiro araki
Deva Schubert is a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer whose work centers on the exploration of the voice. Combining dance, installation, and digital media, her pieces have been presented internationally, including at Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunsthalle Zürich, and Sophiensäle Berlin. Her award-winning work Glitch Choir (ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers’ Award 2024) continues to tour in diverse formats and variations. In 2025, she presented her first solo exhibition, Silent Spills, at Kunstraum Niederösterreich in Vienna.
Chihiro Araki (she/her) is a performance artist based in Berlin. After training at The Tokyo Ballet School and earning BA from Rambert School in London, she has danced with Carte Blanche and Johannes Wieland Company, as well as for Alban Richard, Jenny Beyer, Helena Waldmann, Meg Stuart, Lina Gómez, Sergiu Matis, Jule Flierl, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Deva Schubert, Chiara Bartl-Salvi, Hanako Hayakawa and musical artist Pan Daijing.
glitch choir
A “glitch” describes a disturbance in the transmission of digital information, such as a distorted image or a stuttering video. It creates a rupture in the perception of reality. Can grief also be understood as a glitch in that sense?
The performance Glitch Choir translates the moment of digital disturbance into the analog space through voice and body in order to recompose a lament. Historically, public mourning practices were long carried out by so-called “Klageweiber.” These women were commissioned to give emotional expression to the grief of others for the deceased. At the same time, the act of lamentation became a vehicle through which their voices could be heard, that otherwise had little presence in the public sphere.
The performance draws on this tradition of public lamentation. From mouth to mouth, the performance unfolds an intimate space of multiresonance. Can grief, within this temporary community, become a collective glitch? What kind of choir emerges from the dissonance of frequencies?
alphonse eklou uwantege
Sagittarius queer, 28 years old, born in Minsk to a Rwandan mother and a Togolese father. Alphonse (they/them) is a model, performer, and director based in Brussels.
Their practice uses the body as a tool, writing as a weapon of resurrection, and performance as a political urgency. Their method relies on the desire to subvert the norms of representation and the relationship between spectators and performers by disrupting scenic spaces.
In the first part of their triptych, reste(s). Alphonse develops their artistic research around transgenerational traumas, invisible memory, and colonial transmissions in a solo dedicated to their uncle, Alphonse Kanimba, who was killed during the Tutsi genocide in April 1994.
Alphonse is currently pursuing this exploration in the second part of the triptych, questioning migratory inheritances and the silences imposed on diasporic identities. Through traditional and contemporary movements, their family's languages, and documents as witnesses of erasures and resistances, they interrogate the fractures and reinventions linked to displacement.
restes (offrande au million)
reste(s)
is a ritual of tribute to my uncle Alphonse Kanimba,
who died during the genocide of the Tutsis,
one day in April 1994,
reste(s)
speaks of transmissions, this mortuary legagcy
that we did not choose,
yet which imprints itself on the living.
reste(s)
d'un of a name, of a story,
of a genocide,
of a trauma,
of a wandering soul
that cannot find its way out.
In this solo, it is about origins
and those familial ties that support us but sometimes become unvearable.
reste(s)
offers a reflection
danced, spoken, whispered
on the dialogue with those ghosts
who haunts us,
on what we choose to reclaim
or leave behind,
on the stories passed down to us
despite ourselves.
But this "us", where does it truly lie?