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2020
Date details
- Date Sunday, 17/January/2027 18:00 ( 2 more dates )
- Venue Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Große Bühne
- Address Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin-Wilmersdorf
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Berlin, Bleibtreustr.
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Theater des Westens
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Part of:
2020
Performing Arts Season 2026/2027
2020 – Eine in weiß gekleidete Person sitzt hinter einem quadratischen Bühnenloch, hinter ihr drei Leinwände.
© Kazuo Fukunaga
Almost completed, then interrupted: Dumb Type’s 2020 long remained a phantom work. Now it becomes reality. In a hybrid interplay of body, technology and sound, an image of our vulnerable, surveilled and over-informed world comes into focus.
In 2020, Dumb Type constructs a multilayered scenario of the global present. Artificial intelligence, surveillance, breakdowns in communication, climate crisis and geopolitical tension do not unfold as narrative but as a sensory field between technology and the living body. Language fractures into fragments; questions from a historical geography textbook are read aloud by synthetic voices; dialogues tip into the absurd; screams rupture the silence. Meaning becomes unstable, communication precarious – a state of permanent overload in which information circulates without producing understanding.
The work moves within the tension between performance, installation and concert. Live performers encounter video, sound and algorithmic structures. The human body is not displaced but exposed: as a vulnerable, resistant element within a highly technologized environment. From this confrontation emerges a ritual space in which repetition, control and disruption interlock. 2020 thus becomes a contemporary ritual – not of order, but of imposition.
With 2020, Dumb Type – the legendary Japanese multimedia performance collective – returns after almost two decades with a new stage work, one that itself long existed in suspension. Nearly completed, 2020 was scheduled to premiere in March of that year. The pandemic prevented this; the work remained a phantom, visible for a long time only as a recording. Now 2020 receives its world premiere on stage at ROHM Theatre Kyoto, followed shortly by its European premiere at Berliner Festspiele.
Founded in Kyoto in 1984 by students of the Kyoto City University of Arts, Dumb Type is regarded as a pioneering collective at the intersection of performance, media art and political practice. Their works critically interrogate technology, identity and structures of power. Under the direction of co-founder Shiro Takatani, 2020 is their first stage work since Voyage (2002). The early AIDS-related death of artist Teiji Furuhashi in 1995, as well as Dumb Type’s engagement against political apathy and social silence, continue to shape their work to this day. 2020 carries this stance forward: precise, cool, poetic – and marked by undiminished urgency.
Artistic Team
Dumb Type
Production Members
Takeshi Azuma, Takayuki Fujimoto, Ken Furudate, Satoshi Hama, Marihiko Hara, Yuko Hirai, Ryoji Ikeda, Kosaku Namikawa, Nobuaki Oshika, So Ozaki, Ryo Shiraki, Noriko Sunayama, Shiro Takatani, Yoko Takatani, Mayumi Tanaka, Hiromasa Tomari, Misako Yabuuchi, Aoi Yamada, Toru Yamanaka, Yukiko Yoshimoto
In 2020, Dumb Type constructs a multilayered scenario of the global present. Artificial intelligence, surveillance, breakdowns in communication, climate crisis and geopolitical tension do not unfold as narrative but as a sensory field between technology and the living body. Language fractures into fragments; questions from a historical geography textbook are read aloud by synthetic voices; dialogues tip into the absurd; screams rupture the silence. Meaning becomes unstable, communication precarious – a state of permanent overload in which information circulates without producing understanding.
The work moves within the tension between performance, installation and concert. Live performers encounter video, sound and algorithmic structures. The human body is not displaced but exposed: as a vulnerable, resistant element within a highly technologized environment. From this confrontation emerges a ritual space in which repetition, control and disruption interlock. 2020 thus becomes a contemporary ritual – not of order, but of imposition.
With 2020, Dumb Type – the legendary Japanese multimedia performance collective – returns after almost two decades with a new stage work, one that itself long existed in suspension. Nearly completed, 2020 was scheduled to premiere in March of that year. The pandemic prevented this; the work remained a phantom, visible for a long time only as a recording. Now 2020 receives its world premiere on stage at ROHM Theatre Kyoto, followed shortly by its European premiere at Berliner Festspiele.
Founded in Kyoto in 1984 by students of the Kyoto City University of Arts, Dumb Type is regarded as a pioneering collective at the intersection of performance, media art and political practice. Their works critically interrogate technology, identity and structures of power. Under the direction of co-founder Shiro Takatani, 2020 is their first stage work since Voyage (2002). The early AIDS-related death of artist Teiji Furuhashi in 1995, as well as Dumb Type’s engagement against political apathy and social silence, continue to shape their work to this day. 2020 carries this stance forward: precise, cool, poetic – and marked by undiminished urgency.
Artistic Team
Dumb Type
Production Members
Takeshi Azuma, Takayuki Fujimoto, Ken Furudate, Satoshi Hama, Marihiko Hara, Yuko Hirai, Ryoji Ikeda, Kosaku Namikawa, Nobuaki Oshika, So Ozaki, Ryo Shiraki, Noriko Sunayama, Shiro Takatani, Yoko Takatani, Mayumi Tanaka, Hiromasa Tomari, Misako Yabuuchi, Aoi Yamada, Toru Yamanaka, Yukiko Yoshimoto
Produced by ROHM Theatre Kyoto
Co-commissioned for the revival by Berliner Festspiele, ROHM Theatre Kyoto
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
and with the support of Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Co-commissioned for the revival by Berliner Festspiele, ROHM Theatre Kyoto
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
and with the support of Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Alternative events
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DER NUSSKNACKER
Die Ballettschule Balancé aus Erkner bringt mit ihrer Inszenierung „Der Nussknacker“ ein klassisches Ballett auf die Bühne: Rund 150 Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene, allesamt Eleven der Ballettschule, wirken an dieser Produktion tänzerisch mit und... moreabout: DER NUSSKNACKER
- Next date:
- Ballettschule Balancé aus Erkner
- Date:
- Sunday, 17/January/2027 17:00
- Venue:
- Friedrich-Wolf-Theater Eisenhüttenstadt
- Address:
- Lindenallee 23, 15890 Eisenhüttenstadt
- Price:
- from €16.00
© Peter Kaaden
The Nutcracker
Christian Spuck’s new production places E.T.A. Hoffmann’s literary original at its center, emphasizing the tension between childhood innocence and the awakening of self-awareness. Since Hoffmann’s 1816 story and the later ballet adaptation by Marius Petipa... moreabout: The Nutcracker
- Next date:
- Der Nussknacker
- Date:
- Sunday, 17/January/2027 18:00 (3 more dates)
- Venue:
- Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Address:
- Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg
- Price:
- from €33.12
© Carlos Quezada
2 Chapters Love
Jiří Kylián has left a lasting mark on 20th-century ballet. In Gods and Dogs, Kylián bridges the divine and the instinctual, order and madness, in a radically concentrated manner. The piece explores the fine line where “normal” behaviour tips into the... moreabout: 2 Chapters Love
- Date:
- Friday, 22/January/2027 19:30 (8 more dates)
- Venue:
- Staatsoper Unter den Linden
- Address:
- Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
- Price:
- from €32.00
© Eventim
Der Nussknacker - Royal Classical Ballet
Es war einmal an einem frostigen Weihnachtsabend im Hause der Familie Silberhaus, als die junge Marie einen wunderschönen Nussknacker als Geschenk bekommen hat. moreabout: Der Nussknacker - Royal Classical Ballet
- Date:
- Monday, 25/January/2027 16:30
- Venue:
- Theater des Westens
- Address:
- Kantstraße 12, 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg
- Price:
- from €55.85
© Eventim
Schwanensee - Royal Classical Ballet
„Schwanensee“, das wohl bekannteste Ballett von Peter I. Tschaikowski, verzaubert seit 1877 Generationen mit seiner traumhaften Handlung und seiner unverwechselbaren Musik. moreabout: Schwanensee - Royal Classical Ballet
- Date:
- Monday, 25/January/2027 20:00 (1 more date)
- Venue:
- Theater des Westens
- Address:
- Kantstraße 12, 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg
- Price:
- from €55.85
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