Lo Höckner: Beyond Overwhelm – Somatic tools for shifting from individual struggle to a collective one – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Lo Höckner:
Beyond Overwhelm – Somatic tools for shifting from individual struggle to a collective one
Beyond Overwhelm relates to embodied learning circles with clear links to social change, aiming to practice together and empower their members to gain agency and take action. This session deliberately addresses the body and practicing together as a collective political practice, and accesses the collective wisdom of a group.
In this workshop dedicated to cultural workers, we are going to explore how working cultures under capitalism are creating a sense of overwhelm in our nervous systems, and furthermore, how we can cultivate embodied resistance. The session offers tools for coming out of overwhelm as a foundation for building relational strategies and counteract individualisation, explores why this is necessary for political agency, and reframes activism.
Through body-based practices, collective inquiry and imagination, this workshop gives space to explore your lived environment and how practices of connection, care and existing otherwise could be brought into it.
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.
Lo Höckner (they/them) is a choreographer, performer, and somatic practitioner interested in the body’s transformative potential through new relations. They initiated the Embodied Social Justice Learning Circle and works with Somatic Experiencing® and Pantarei. Their practice spans expanded choreography, community-building through dance, somatic as well as artificial intelligences, site-specific explorations, and connecting art, healing practices and activism.