Gira – Porträtperformance Natasha Vergilio

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  Gira – Portraitperformance Natasha Vergilio – Person in bunter Kleidung und Perücke tanzt auf einem Tisch, im Hintergrund Projektion mit Text "her" und Händen über Flammen. Raum mit roten Lichtern und

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  Porträtperformance Natasha Vergilio – Porträtperformance Natasha Vergilio

– Please note that we use stroboscope light during the performance!

(in Portugese with english surtitels)

The body is the medium for entering ever new worlds. The body is suppressed, the body is free. Natasha Vergilio’s art consists of using the centrifugal force of her own body movement to push forward into new spaces, for herself and for others – now she is showing Gira, her portrait performance at Ballhaus Naunynstraße!

When she looks back, she sees the traces of many feet in the sandy ground. Is the self alone? In European, market-oriented thinking, the ego is an autonomous point, less than a star. But it is more likely that the ego is uma banda. We are because others were before us. And because others are with us.

Every day, we practise not standing out, not displeasing, not arousing fear. Patriarchy takes time and energy. She dances because she has inherited not only the techniques of the lowered gaze, but also the strength and courage to stand out, to make the other person vibrate and bring life to life. She dances because some before her have consolidated the ground, invented terms, “queer” and “non-binary”, et cetera, because they developed relationships. They dance because the ego are so many: Ancestors, spirits and messengers, pomba giras, because they may have already lived and therefore know life, because they are not alone. They dance to create the vibration in resistance that makes life come alive, to create sparks.

On this evening, Natasha Vergilio bows to the feminine side of her family; by dancing upright, in circles ahead, exploring new spaces.

Portrait performances are risky: here, it’s not about the role profile, about what one has always done, because directors and producers see it “in” you, but rather it’s about what one wants to tell. PORTRAIT is an invitation to artists to showcase themselves and what matters to them. It’s an invitation to the audience to encounter artists in a complexity not seen before.

Artists/Collaborators: Gadutra - (Sounddesign), Gissauro - (Dramaturgie), Laura Alonso (Choreografiemitarbeit), Valéria Araújo (Bühnenbild), Man Teng Nip (Kostüm), Daniel Rakin (Viddeodesign), Natasha Vergilio (Von und mit)

A production by Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. The initial production was funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt des Landes Berlin and the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Next date: GIRA

• Date Thursday, 03/December/2026 20:00 ( 3 more dates )
• Venue Ballhaus Naunynstraße
• Address Naunynstraße 27, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Price from €15.40

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