Auf meinen Schultern

Dance performance by Raphael Moussa Hillebrand

Auf meinen Schultern

The story isn’t over; the story goes on. My daughter. Happiness and madness go on. My mother is white. Yours a Black woman. I grew up in the western half, you in a cosmopolitan city. Do you think the story is over? Berlin, you are so big, so free, so provincially violent.

Half the city was the cosmos of my childhood; with a roast chicken trip to the other galaxy. Are privileges short-lived? Do they open horizons or blind us? Who owns the whole city? Who is it made for? For you, for us? Black Berliner. I would like you to be spared a few experiences. But how?

Auf meinen Schultern (On my shoulders) is a solo performance by the dancer and choreographer Raphael Hillebrand, his first at Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Based on his experience of growing up in Berlin in the 1980s and 90s, he attempts to give shape to his own lived experience so that the next generation and his own child can connect to it ‒ a danced, break danced, spoken and performed passing on.

Artists/Collaborators: Raphael Moussa Hillebrand (Choreografie, Performance & Videokonzept), Raphael Moussa Hillebrand (Autor/in), Kysy Fischer (Mitarbeit Choreografie), Emílio Cordero Checa (Lichtdesign), Monique Van den Bulck, Eurico Ferreira Mathias, Jaika Bahr, Emílio Cordero Checa

A production by Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. The Initial production was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin and the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Next date: AUF MEINEN SCHULTERN

• Date Saturday, 25/May/2024 20:00 (3 more dates)
• Venue Ballhaus Naunynstraße
• Address Naunynstraße 27, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Price from €15.40

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