Lake Studios Berlin

Chosen and left
by Pawel Reczek

video, drawing installation

Body that keeps going. Drawn from the myths of boys loved by gods, seized, used, made eternal, left. It moves the way desire actually moves: obsessively, down, leaving marks. Queer rural mythology meets anonymous night, the field or the underworld. Sweat, tears, paint, repetition. Something that won’t stop even after it should.

…and still the River Flows
by Veronica Boniotti & Helene Cæcilie Mørck

Guidance- Dramaturgy: Marcela Giesche
Guidance- Design: Mark Grunow  
Original music: Helene Cæcilie Mørck, and still the River Flows
Music: Naturaleza Viva, Ocean Sounds for Sleeping, Yann Tiersen,
Funding:  Supported by Culture Moves Europe
Collaborators: Festival PANEEUFORICO, 26-28 June 2026, in Riva Del Garda, Italy

A performance about a meeting between two souls, about not knowing, of living in the in-betweenness of emotions, places, spaces and being in a state of becoming.

This is a shared body
by Mikah Simone bd & Samira Mendoza aka MIRA MIRA

This is a shared body 🐚 is somewhat like a hero’s journey in that it is a meditation of the land that is us. In that it is inherently what our mothers gave us; that our bodies are like hers; her mother’s and her’s; and what do we/you remember from all that time?

If you take me, I’ll handstand
by Mela Seidenari

Dramaturgical and technical support: Anna Chwialkowska
External eye: Sabrina Huth
Video: A. Matthey
Thanks to: Verena Sepp, Maxim Wittenbecher and ITI Germany

If you take me, I’ll handstand is a solo about the urge to go upside down.
Have you ever noticed how, in a dance studio or after class, if one person starts training handstands, bit by bit, other people end up joining — as if by contagion?
This piece interrogates that frenzy: the faith in your willpower, the pain in the neck (literally), the discipline, and the inevitable falls.
A failed attempt that turns into a repeated gesture, somewhere between intimate and obsessive, opens an exploration of what it means to work hard for something and to linger forever on the edge of having it — mastering it, almost.
(Also, it’s a break-up piece)  

The lady waiting
by Sara Mitouali 

Choreography: Ioannis Edgar Avetikian, Sara Mitouali
Music: Charis Karantzas

The piece explores the intimate world of a woman, where anticipation becomes the canvas for a choreographic composition. It is a journey into the fragile states of waiting. Personal, yet universal, it becomes the inspiration for movement and how anticipation itself can become a living, breathing form.

Dead Angle
by Lotta Beckers

Outside Eye: Eva Königshofen
Songs: Pink Panther Theme – Henry Mancini, Surrender (‘88 Version) – Suicide, The Pink Panther – Polizeimusik Zürich

Equipped with a head torch, someone sneaks through the space – a burglar, a detective, a stripper, a raver, a fox – oscillating between withdrawing and giving in to visibility.
The performance dives into the ambivalence of surrendering, as giving up and as indulgence, unfolding from a play with the other’s gaze as a point of vulnerability. The opacity of darkness holds the freedom to move unrecognized, beyond the radar of identity. But how do you know who’s your friend in the dark? 
Dead Angle questions strategies of becoming-imperceptible as potential forms of resistance, while remaining attentive how the same strategy can be turned against one’s own aims.