CONNECT, BTS: Rituals of Care

The Gropius Bau hosts a series of performances as it begins its 2020 programme: an ongoing exploration of themes with particular contemporary urgency, including land and the Anthropocene, violence and repair. In January and February, the performance series Rituals of Care resonates with the history, location and physicality of the building itself, which still bears the marks of wartime damage and its mending through carefully kept traces.

The programme spans experimental choreography, healing practices, sonic installations and collective gatherings. These interdisciplinary works and practices explore the necessary conditions for coming together and tending to environments, to physical and spiritual worlds and to other beings. Through a range of somatic techniques, queer re-imaginings and indigenous perspectives, these performances offer radical acts of care and repair.

With Jelili Atiku, boychild with Josh Johnson and Total Freedom, Pan Daijing, Cevdet Erek, Marcelo Evelin, Bill Fontana, Maria Hassabi, Mette Ingvartsen with Will Guthrie, Baba Murah and Candomblé Berlin, Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro with Mich Cota, Kennis Hawkins, Stephen Thompson and others

Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal and Noémie Solomon

All performances are free with variable capacity. The project Rituals of Care is being carried out with the kind support of BTS as part of CONNECT, BTS.

January 15–February 2
Sound installation
Cevdet Erek: Left Right, Stereo

January 16–17, 8–9pm
Performance
Marcelo Evelin: A Invenção da Maldade

January 18, 12–3pm
Performance with public procession and ritual
Jelili Atiku: The Night Has Ears

January 18–19, 4:30–5pm & 6:45–7:15pm 
Choreographic proposition 1
Mette Ingvartsen: evaporated landscapes

January 18–19, 5:15–5:45pm & 6–6:30pm
Choreographic proposition 2
Mette Ingvartsen: Manual Focus

January 18–19, 7:30–8pm
Choreographic proposition 3
Mette Ingvartsen and Will Guthrie: All Around

January 19, 2–4pm
Cleansing ritual and Oríkì performance
Baba Murah and Candomblé Berlin: The Magic of Healing

January 23–24, 8–9pm
Performance
Maria Hassabi: TOGETHER

January 24, 4–6pm
Performance installation
Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro: les études (hérésies 1–7)

January 25, 11am–4pm & 7–8:30pm
Performance installation
Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro: les études (hérésies 1–7)

January 25, 9–10pm
Performance
Antonija Livingstone with Mich Cota & guests: CHAUD

January 25, 10pm–1am
DJ Set
Mieko Suzuki

January 26, 11am–4pm
Performance installation
Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro: les études (hérésies 1–7)

January 30, 7–9pm & January 31, 9–11pm
Performance
Pan Daijing: Dead Time Blue

January 31, 6–8pm
Panel discussion
Rituals of Care: a conversation

February 1–2, 12–5pm
Durational performance
boychild with Josh Johnson and Total Freedom: Untitled Duet (the storm called progress)

February 2, 5:30–7:30pm
Music and cocktails
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