Deva Schubert: vocal collisions (variations on the mouth) (2026)

5th Annual Performance Festival PERFORM!

Venue: Neue Nationalgalerie terrace
The mouth is a site marked by ambivalence. It contaminates and connects, communicates and disrupts in equal measure. It creates bonds and breaks them, can produce intimacy and destroy it again. It is a gaping hole, yet contains a world of its own. In her new performance vocal collisions (variations on the mouth), which builds on her Glitch Choir series, Deva Schubert explores the different facets of the mouth through a vocal choreography of microtonal sounds. Here, the mouth becomes both a resonating chamber and an instrument. Accompanied by a soundtrack by Davide Luciani, five performers form shifting vocal constellations, moving between gentleness and confrontation.
Deva Schubert is a choreographer and artist based in Berlin. She studied dance in Salzburg, Kassel, Copenhagen, and at HZT Berlin, as well as Fine Arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Her work operates at the intersection of dance, installation, and digital media and explores questions of intimacy, collectivity, and transdisciplinary synergies. As a dancer, she has worked with artists including Isabelle Schad, Michael Portnoy, and Julie Favreau at festivals and exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, documenta 14, and steirischer herbst. Her work Glitch Choir received the ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers’ Award in 2024 and has been presented at venues including Haus der Kunst in Munich and Sophiensæle in Berlin.
PERFORM! is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, together with Lisa Botti, Curator at Neue Nationalgalerie, and Gregor Quack, Volkswagen Group Curator.
The American Academy in Berlin is a partner of PERFORM! 2026.

Next date:

• Date Sunday, 13/September/2026 14:30 bis 16:30
• Venue Neue Nationalgalerie
• Address Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten