Tentacular Figurings: WET HOT WOMBS – Bathing into other Bodies – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025

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

Tentacular Figurings:
WET HOT WOMBS – Bathing into other Bodies

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Tentacular Figurings:
WET HOT WOMBS – Bathing into other Bodies
Dance, Performance
Duration: 45 Min.
English, little language

The performance takes place as a double bill with Super Superficial by Kysy Fischer. The performances will be shown one after the other, with a break of 45 minutes. When you buy your ticket, you will receive a combined ticket with which you can attend both performances.

When I'm alone with my body – am I ever alone with my body?

In WET HOT WOMBS – Bathing into other Bodies, the body repeatedly eludes the gaze and is thus revealed as constantly becoming. In a messy dance with objects, masks, puppets and an organ, a single body is sung about and conjured up, examined for non-human affinities, freed from attributions, and opened to the indescribable and its plurality. Bodies in the making, hybrid bodies, fluid bodies, bodies between human and sea creature, woman and monster, punk and diva. In search of a queer-feminist, post-human corporeality, the space oscillates between the deep sea, outer space and the subconscious.

We are lost in space. We are all at sea. We are in this together. 

[...] The problem is that we did not know whom we meant when we said we. (Rosi Braidotti)

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The information on accessibility is in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If you have any questions until then, please contact the communications department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change up to the day of the event. If you therefore only find out after purchasing your ticket that the performance is no longer barrier-free for you, you can contact us at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 (Monday to Friday between 10 am and 6 pm) up to 5 working days after the event to return your ticket.

Duration

  • 45 minutes without intermission.

Language

  • little English spoken language

Light

  • The lighting mood is rather dark.
  • Stoboscope light is used.
  • Flashing backlighting is used.

Sound

  • Very loud music is sometimes used.
  • There are overdrive and interference noises.

Other effects

  • Stage fog is used.

Audience area

  • Seated grandstand
  • 2 beanbag seats bookable subject to availability
  • 2 wheelchair spaces bookable subject to availability

Early boarding

  • Early boarding is possible. A loudspeaker announcement will be made a few minutes in advance.

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.

Concept, composition, performance: Mika Bangemann
Concept, stage, costume: Eddie N. von Seckendorff
Outside eye: Olympia Bukkakis
Light design: Hanna Kritten Tangsoo
Sound design: Ernesto Cárcamo Cavazos

A production by Tentacular Figurings in cooperation with HZT Berlin. 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. and Theaterhaus Berlin. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

Tentacular Figurings is a multi-disciplinary performance collective. The core team consists of Mika Bangemann and Eddie von Seckendorff. Both live and work in Berlin. By applying their expertise in (dance) performance, puppet theater, sculpture, prop building, set design and sound art, they use their human bodies to create bodies beyond the human. After WET HOT WOMBS – Bathing into other Bodies, they developed the performance Meet Your Dancestors! at Ballhaus Ost in Berlin in 2024.

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