A Black person in a dark red dress bends backwards dramatically, throwing herself backwards towards a stage set with a huge white lettering with the word BLANCO. A Black person in a red jacket dances on the letters.

Fokus Tanz

Performance

Joana Tischkau

Ich nehm dir alles weg – Ein Schlagerballett

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24/14 Euro (conc. ab 9 Euro, [k]-Karte from 7 Euro)

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Possible triggers: The play deals with experiences and the cultural reproduction of anti-Black racism. Strobe light, dazzling effects, fog, loud music and singing through a megaphone, during a scene performers enter the auditorium

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Saturday

3/1/25

7:30 PM

70 Min.

Fokus Tanz

What do Pina Bausch and the ZDF Hit Parade have in common, especially in terms of their nation-building character? Inspired by the subtitle “Schlagerballett” (“Hit Ballet”) of an early work by Bausch and her company, which could perhaps be described as Germany's most successful export of high culture, choreographer and performer Joana Tischkau sets out in search of ways to queer the German national narrative. In the tradition of Black German pop stars such as Roberto Blanco, Randolph Rose, Marie Nejar, and Tina Daute, the performers dance and sing their way to an aesthetic Germanness that makes sense regardless of Whiteness and heteronormativity.

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Press photos – Fokus Tanz 2025

#Decolonial

#Culture of Remembrance

With: Joana Tischkau

Artistic direction & choreography Joana Tischkau Performance & choreography Dayron Domínguez Piedra, Sidney Kwadjo Frenz, Ellias Hampe, Moses Leo, Deborah Macauley, Carlos Daniel Valladores Carvajal, Sophie Yukiko, Anne-Kathrin Hartmann Sound Frieder Blume Sound assistance Kairo Fumilayo Edward Costumes Nadine Bakota Stage Carlo Siegfried Lighting design, technical direction Hendrik Borowski Assistant director Anta Helena Recke Production management Lisa Gehring Production assistant Lianne Mol Set design assistant Marie Göhler Outside Eye/Input Dr. Mariama Diagne

Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Claussen Simon Foundation. Supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCENETZ for Theater Guest Performance Funding, supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the federal states.

“Ich nehm dir alles weg - Ein Schlagerballett” is a co-production of HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzquartier Wien, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Research cooperation: Malpaso Dance Company / Liaison office Goethe-Institut Havana

Joana Tischkau

Ich nehm dir alles weg – Ein Schlagerballett

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