Cabaret Heartbreak
With Ariel Efraim Ashbel, Antonia Baehr, Alvin Collantes, Faravaz, Kysy Fischer & ABA NAIA, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen a.o.
Hosts: Thelma Buabeng & Olympia Bukkakis
- Music
- Performance
German /
English /
A cabaret evening for anyone whose heart has ever been broken – by love, history, politics, institutions, the nation, art or hope. Blending performance, drag, dance, music, poetry and political absurdity, Berlin-based artists come together in the “Vessel of Love”. In the face of cynicism, isolation and exhaustion, “Cabaret Heartbreak” draws on wit, joy, glamour, defiance and radical tenderness. In a present where despair increasingly shapes our political and emotional realities, the stage becomes a temporary refuge: a space to laugh, mourn, fantasise and scream together – and to remain side by side just a little longer.
With “Buttox Antiphon”, ABA NAIA brings to the stage a call-and-response piece about selfishness, self-assertion and the arsehole within us and around us. Alvin Collantes encounters his drag persona “Bibingka” in an intimate ritual caught between staying and leaving, mourning and becoming. Werner Hirsch, alias Antonia Baehr, explores the scream as sound and form, rhythm and gesture. Ariel Efraim Ashbel takes the weekly Torah reading, the Parashah, as the starting point for a performative examination of Noah’s Ark and the Tower of Babel. Cassie Augusta Jørgensen’s “Hamletta” navigates grief, transformation and the choreography of the domesticated body. Faravaz gives voice to experiences of exile, freedom and self-determination.
Thelma Buabeng and Olympia Bukkakis guide the audience through the evening. Together, they hold together what remains of the broken heart.
Dates
Current
22 €, reduced 15 €
Combi tickets “Love is a Verb #2” (excluding the concert on 6.10.):
3 events for 30–50 €, reduced 20–40 €
6 events for 60–90 €, reduced 40–60 €
Location
HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available.
