A Year without Summer

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  A Year without Summer, Foto: Mayra Wallraff

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BEATRICE CORDUA 1943 – 2025Adieu, TrixieUnconventional. Unperturbed. Compassionate. And a commanding presence on stage—a monolith of structure, clarity, and precision.Beatrice Cordua danced at the Volksbühne as early as the 1990s under Johann Kresnik and recently returned as a matadora with Florentina Holzinger and ensemble.Nudity was her costume in this raw form of being, and costume, she believed, was not a matter of age.She became a queen and remains a star in the dance sky.You are missed—thank you, and adieu, Trixie.It is 2025. We live in a year without summer: In a jump-scare reality that feels like an apocalyptic vision of our world, thrown into darkness andstripped of certainty. Survival becomes ritual, and despair dances hand in hand with ecstasy.In 1816, the original „year without summer“,Mount Tambora erupts in Indonesia, ashes fill the sky, the sun disappears, crops fail, and the world hungers. That same year, 18-year-old Mary stays by Lake Geneva with other poets and storm and darkness inspire them to tell ghost stories. Mary imagines Dr. Frankenstein, a genius of science, who forces nature to bend to his will and ends up in destruction with his monster assembled from corpses‘ parts.Florentina Holzinger and cast explore the stories we tell about our bodies, health, identities, decay and our environment: The 21st century pursuit of longevity, medical promises of rejuvenation to the perils of unchecked technological growth in a world shaped by AI, robotics, and bioengineering. A Year without Summer appropriates this attempt to improve nature to the point of perversion and plays off the promise of eternal life against the certainty of death.But what happens when the creation becomes the monster? When creation becomes (like) us?NoteWe recommend a minimum age of 18 to attend the performance.Trigger warningPlease note: A Year without Summer containsblood and bodily fluidsself-injurious actsexplicit depictions of sexual actsstrobe effects

Artists/Collaborators: Saioa Alvarez Ruiz (von und mit), Tanja Erhart (von und mit), Lucy Wilke (von und mit), Liane Jil Apel (von und mit), Andrea Baker (von und mit), Bear Boy (von und mit), Sofia Borges (von und mit), Born In Flamez (von und mit), Gibrana Cervantes (von und mit), Renée Copraij (von und mit), Beatrice Cordua (von und mit), Sophie Duncan (von und mit), Luz de Luna Duran (von und mit), Bláthin Eckhardt (von und mit), Renée Eigendorff (von und mit), Fibi Eyewalker (von und mit), Paige A. Flash (von und mit), Florentina Holzinger (von und mit), Sahel van K (von und mit), Chris Kringel (von und mit), Annina Machaz (von und mit), Achan Malonda (von und mit), Ingeborg Middendorf (von und mit), MING (von und mit), Xana Novais (von und mit), Netti Nüganen (von und mit), Constanza Pérez de Lara Bonatti (von und mit), Sue Shay (von und mit), Gitti Ulm (von und mit), Bärbel Warneke (von und mit), Florentina Holzinger (Regie, Choreografie, Performance), Born In Flamez (Musikalische Leitung), Gibrana Cervantes (Musikalische Leitung), Stefan Schneider (Musikalische Leitung), Born In Flamez (Komposition), Josephinex Ashley Hansis (Komposition), Noah Reis Ramma (Komposition), Stefan Schneider (Komposition), Sofia Borges (Live-Musik), Born In Flamez (Live-Musik), Gibrana Cervantes (Live-Musik), Bláthin Eckhardt (Live-Musik), Paige A. Flash (Live-Musik), MING (Live-Musik), Stefan Schneider (Live-Musik), Stefan Schneider (Sounddesign), Olivia Oyama (Sounddesign), Nikola Knežević (Bühne), Christiane Hilmer (Kostüm), Kevin Sock (Licht), Zoe Bassi (Videodesign), Max Heesen (Videodesign), Fernando Belfiore (Dramaturgie), Leonie Hahn (Dramaturgie), Sara Ostertag (Dramaturgie), Felix Ritter (Dramaturgie), Michele Rizzo (Dramaturgie)

Next date:

• Date Friday, 09/October/2026 19:30 ( 4 more dates )
• Venue Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Großes Haus
• Address Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte