Shade Théret: Daybreak – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025

2025
34 edition
Dance, Performance Ticket Premiere
Closing party Free admission

Shade Théret:
Daybreak

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Shade Théret:
Daybreak
Dance, Performance
Duration: 40 Min.
English
10€/15€

Premiere

The performance takes place as a double bill with Lurker by Hanako Hayakawa. The performances will be shown one after the other, with a break of 30 minutes. When you buy your ticket, you will receive a combined ticket with which you can attend both performances.

Daybreak addresses the tension between tracelessness and surveillance through the figure of the vagabond. The vagabond represents the freedom to exist in anonymity and can foster liberty from the commodification of the social – our connections, relationships and friendships – and turning it into valuable data.

In this work, which takes place in a live soundscape composed and performed by Lynn Suemitsu, the vagabond (Shade Théret) does not accept her place in the world’s power structure. She chooses to live outside of anything that might follow her and make her traceable. Therefore she lives literally outside – on a cold beach, within an empty construction site, in a wintered-over garden. Upon meeting someone new, she never asks for anything, never apologizes, and never says thank you. She demands, she takes what she wants, and she walks away.

The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).

Early boarding

If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.

Tickets

  • Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
  • Via the online ticket shop
  • At the box office

You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.

Direction, performance, choreography: Shade Théret
Music: Rin Suemitsu
Set design: MRZB
Costume: Clever Disguises
Light: Shaly López

Dramaturgical support: Polina Fenko

A production by Shade Théret in co-production with Sophiensæle. The 34th Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin and Uferstudios GmbH. Media partners:  Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

Shade Théret is a dancer, choreographer and theater maker in Berlin. Her practice centers around interpersonal dynamics and motivations around desire, taking shape through live performance, film/video and poetry. Théret holds a B.A. in Dance, Context, and Choreography from HZT Berlin. Her work has recently been shown at PAGEANT (NYC), Bolzano Danza, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), and Odyssey Theater (Los Angeles).

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