Lake Studios Berlin

To Fawn the Faun
by Maria Isidora Vincentelli

To Fawn the Faun is a solo performance tracing lived experiences of survival intelligence and wild resonance through the body of the deer. The stage becomes a site where modern and mythic worlds meet, tracing the body’s negotiations with power, vulnerability and our inherent desire to resonate.
Social fawning – often understood as a feminised behaviour of appeasement- is approached not as trauma to fix, but as ecological intelligence shaped through strategic compliance under patriarchy and late capitalism. Perhaps it is even a wisdom, echoing the mythic body of the faun: a body of resonance, instinct and wild relation.
Can strategic submission open underground spaces for resonance to thrive? Who is she, this evolved fauwn?

Well Spent
By Piper Morriso

“Use it up. Spend it well. God forbid you let it go to waste. This work plays with time as a substance to manipulate, a material to possess, a resource to bank. What are the stories we have been told? That we tell ourselves? Where do they leave us?”

De-Cons-Truct
By Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE, René Baptist HUYSMANS and Nikita Nik ZHUKOVISKY

choreographer: Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE
Composer: René Baptist HUYSMANS
videographer/ multimedia artist: Nikita Nik ZHUKOVISKY
performer(s)  Zov VELEZ,  Imelda VERES, Kemelo SEHLAPELO, Rafaela KARPOUZI, Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE

Research  of an Interactive Multidisciplinary Installation. 
A transitory mirage of deconstructing the body in front of a camera, embodying a sea of light and sound spectrum, merging the digital and the bodily/physical dimension (movement & dance).

Lift 
By Luis Fernando Colombo

Concept and choreography: Luis Fernando Colombo
Created in collaboration with Sabrina Martemucci
Performers: Luis Fernando Colombo, Sabrina Martemucci

Emerging from the fable as from the mud, the ant builds and behaves, while the cicada digs and then sings. Facing each other, they ask a simple and cruel question: “Why?” Through this attempt to answer, they discover that each one already contains something of the other: labour and song, survival and desire, necessity and waste. Like a fragile yin and yang, the work-in-progress explores the tension between productivity, pleasure, guilt, and the right to exist beyond usefulness.

Funded by European Union, Goethe Institute.

BEAR
By Alexa Wilson 

BEAR is a live performance activation exploring transformation through rupture, friction, chaos, eroticism, and embodied mess. Moving between states of wildness, vulnerability, intimacy, and exposure, the work plays on the dual meaning of “bear”; to endure, to bare oneself, and the human as threat.

The performance unfolds as a sequence of shifting intensities, from exterior liminal space into an interior performance environment, oscillating between darkness, activation, noise, and bodily excess, toward moments of intimacy and direct encounter. Through movement, sound, presence, and questioning, the body becomes a site of tension and reconfiguration — where animalistic movement, human soundscapes, and gestures of exposure and care allow chaos to remain unresolved, alive and generative.

Rooted in ongoing PhD in Visual arts research into transformation, social dynamics, and rewilding, BEAR explores how friction, mess, conflict, exposure, and activation operate within relational and collaborative encounters. The work culminates in a participatory exchange, inviting audience members into dialogue around lived experiences of tension, misunderstanding, rupture, and unintended impact in relational contexts.