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SUMMARY:SUBMERGE FESTIVAL 2026
DESCRIPTION:SUBMERGE is a festival of exchange that celebrates choreography and creative practice . Spanning four weeks\, the festival dives deep into diverse performance works by local and international dance artists. In the days before the performances\, invited artists share the crafting of their work with the professional scene in free “re-creative” labs*. \n\n\n\nPerformances are ticketed\, open to the public\, and accompanied by audience exchange formats**. \n\n\n\nSUBMERGE aims to inspire solidarity by reimagining how dance festivals give artists and audiences a sense of place and agency within their community. \n\n\n\nDIVE IN!\n\n\n\n* RE-CREATIVE LABS: workshops diving into the choreographic methods\, movement techniques\, and conceptual journeys behind each performance work. While the cost of the labs are free\, we do ask participants to support the festival by purchasing a ticket to the corresponding performance on which the lab is based (tickets 15€ – 25€).** EXCHANGE FORMATS: Artist Q&As\, Community Lunches & Youth Workshops. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLab registration\n\n\n\nPerformance TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOMMUNITY LUNCHES (open to the public)Tasty vegan lunches made by our in house chefs Wiam El-Tamami\, NOA HULDAY\, and PIPER MORRISON13:00 || 7€ eachReservations must be made 24 hours in advance : lunch@lakestudiosberlin.comAugust 22\, 25\, & 27\, and September 1\, 4\, 8\, 10\, 12\, 15\, 17\, 18\, & 19EMERGE DAY August 23rd: Special Brunch @11h\, Dinner @19h : 10€ each incl. a drink \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLAKE is wheelchair accessible. We are happy to provide dedicated access support\, including financial assistance for transportation\, to anyone who needs it. Please contact:  +49 163 865 2607angela@lakestudiosberlin.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\nOpening Celebrations DAY 1: SUBMERGE YOUR STYLE : WORKSHOP & BATTLESATURDAYWORKSHOP: August 22 | 11:00 – 13:00 || 2nd workshop added! 14:00 – 15.30 BATTLE:  August 22 | 18:00\n\nSUBMERGE your style – Workshop & BattleWe launch this year’s festival with a free two-hour dance workshop. Merging breaking\, experimental\, and contemporary styles\, MR. KRISS gets us moving and battle-ready.LAKE STUDIOS then hosts the evening in collaboration with OPEN YOUR MIND: Dancers\, bring your technical skills\, your thoughtful gestures\, your abstract states\, and your brave hearts! We will mix styles\, music and surprise prompts in a spirit of dance celebration. Winner takes home a residency at LAKE Studios Berlin. Come to dance or to watch and cheer. Dive in! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpening Celebrations DAY 2: SUBMERGE : EMERGESUNDAYWORKSHOP: August 23 | 13:00-14:00PUBLIC SPACE: August 23 | 14:00-18:00\n\nSUBMERGE EMERGE – Workshop & Public SpaceOn Sunday\, we continue the celebrations! SUBMERGE will EMERGE beyond the studios and activate movement in public and natural spaces. Join a preparatory workshop at LAKE\, and then spread around Friedrichshagen. All participants get a free SUBMERGE T-shirt! Workshop attendance is mandatory\, please be on time and bring your swim gear! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngélica RoaLAB: August 24 & 25 | 10:00-16:00PERFORMANCE: August 29 | 19:00 (Double Bill w/ South Chicago Dance Theater)\n\nON HOW TO BE NATURE — labA durational laboratory using movement\, sensory practice\, and collective reflection as tools for ecological inquiry. In the garden\, participants explore eco-somatic relationships with soil\, trees\, water\, and air. In the studio\, choreography and performance unfold in dialogue with natural materials\, exploring how the embodiment of this materiality moves the body through states\, images\, and reflections. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTO CRITTER — performanceTo Critter is an eco-sensual invitation to transcend the boundaries of the human self and connect with what lies beyond the skin. Drawing from Traditional Ecological Knowledge and a year of ecosomatic practices in Berlin’s forests\, the work explores entanglement and biological interdependence as embodied practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKia S. Smith / South Chicago Dance TheatreLAB: August 26 & 27 | 10:00-16:00PERFORMANCE: August 29 | 19:00 (Double Bill w/Angélica Roa) \n\nIMPROVISATORY WORLD BUILDING — labParticipating artists will join Kia S. Smith and South Chicago Dance Theatre in research and “improvisatory world building”. During this process\, artists will be immersed in learning to trust the instinctual and child-like play of the creative process exploring text\, sound\, gesture and contemporary movement rooted in wonder\, imagination and joy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUITE ON THE SAHARA — performanceSuite On The Sahara weaves sounds from Argentina\, Morocco\, Spain\, and Italy to immerse audiences in a landscape flowing with light\, color\, passion\, and a range of movement vocabularies. Scaffolded by the genius of the Silk Road Ensemble\, the work allows music — Smith’s first love — to be at the helm of the choreographic process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYotam PeledLAB: August 31 | 10:00-16:00 & September 1 | 10:00 – 13:00PERFORMANCE: September 2 | 11:00 School Performance & 17:00 Public Performance\n\nBETWEEN DANCING AND FIGHTING — labThis workshop connects contemporary dance\, Qi Gong\, Kung Fu\, and partner work inspired by wrestling and boxing. Martial art principles become a shared language for listening and receiving — creating a rooted physical conversation between bodies and introducing an organic flow between individual practice and playful interaction with others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHERE THE BOYS ARE — performanceWhere the Boys Are (13+) playfully explores the intersection of dance and martial arts. Examining and reconstructing the vocabulary of different fighting practices\, the two performers transform the arena into a zone of sensitive and intimate action\, and expose different perspectives on relations between young men. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlivia Hyunsin Kim / ddanddarakimLAB: September 3 & 4 | 10:00-16:00 PERFORMANCE: September 5 | 19:00\n\nBABY IT’S COMEDY — labThis workshop explores comedy as a self-empowering performance tool. How can comedy create space to talk\, perform\, and dance about what is difficult to address in an ableist world? Through writing and performance exercises\, we share our comical journey. Let’s laugh and generate some energy. People with marginalizing experiences are especially welcome.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBABY I’M SICK TONIGHT — performanceFrom the perspective of a queer woman of color with chronic illness\, Olivia Hyunsin Kim experiments with stand-up comedy as a form of self-empowerment. Using dance\, narrative\, stand-up\, and pop\, she and her collaborators counter stigmatization of invisible disability while connecting the cultural history of hysteria\, queer illness\, and body image in contemporary dance. German Sign Language (DGS) integrated. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsawako ogo | disasterchaoticLAB: September 7 & 8 | 10:00-16:00PERFORMANCE: September 11 | 19:00 (Double Bill w/Katia Pacheco)\n\nOBSESSION AND PERSPECTIVES — labIn this workshop\, participants explore obsession as a movement practice using a basketball as a prop representing power. How does fixation on an object shape our perspective\, our movement\, and our relationship to spectators? And how can we free ourselves from such obsession — and when we are indeed free\, what does it feel like? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOWER/TRIP — performanceIn power/trip\, a yellow basketball becomes a physical representation of power. The performer embarks on a solitary journey through powerlessness\, sudden authority\, obsessive control\, and the constraints that follow. Through releasing obsession\, they find liberation and inner strength. Yet the power trip is a loop\, inevitably pulling them back to the beginning. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatia PachecoLAB: September 9 & 10 | 10:00-16:00PERFORMANCE: September 11 | 19:00 (Double Bill w/sawako ogo | disasterchaotic)\n\nTHRESHOLD DIVE — labIn this workshop we use improvisational tasks to explore the sound of voice and character-building around the mythical figure of the Afro-Caribbean mermaid. We will visit existing literature on the subject and create new narratives born from guided improvisational tasks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nORÁCULO — performanceOráculo is a dance theatre piece that explores afrofuturism and the migration journeys of the mythical Afro-Caribbean mermaid figure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela MoragaLAB: September 11 | 10:00-16:00 & September 12 | 10:00-13:00PERFORMANCE: September 12 | 20:00\n\nINSIDE JOURNEY — labThis workshop combines reflection\, improvisation\, and repertory\, offering a practical and embodied understanding of the creative process behind Gig. Through guided tasks\, we translate biographical material\, personal memories\, and reflections into movement and spatial composition. Improvisation with written text and voice follows\, navigating structure and spontaneity. We close by learning a short sequence from the piece itself. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGIG — performanceGig offers an intimate look at the precarious reality of freelance dance artists. Blending dance\, spoken text\, and direct address\, the solo examines the gig economy’s demands against a post-pandemic backdrop of rising costs and shrinking cultural funding. Drawing from her experience as a migrant artist\, Pamela Moraga navigates labor\, exhaustion\, and identity with vulnerability and wit. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRiiviöt  CollectiveLAB: September 14 | 10:00-16:00 & September 15 | 10:00-13:00PERFORMANCE: September 16 | 11:00 School Performance & 17:00 Public Performance\n\nFLIGHT LAB — labEngaging our imagination\, we dive into our own superhero characters\, exploring and expressing our inner plurality. By queering the superhero\, we investigate what its body and movements can mean for each of us—seeking empowerment\, play\, curiosity\, and discovery. We share elements of partnering practice\, centering agency and consent\, and expand material from the piece toward flying together. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUPER WE\, SUPER ME — performanceWhat kind of superheroes do we need today? In a colorful fantasy world\, Elastrix and Stromax adventure on a distant planet\, each tasked with protecting their magical home — but with opposing superpowers. When they meet\, they discover they can fly higher together than ever before. Made for young audiences aged 5+\, the work invites us to discover our own superpowers and encounter fellow superheroes around us! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOmer KeinanLAB: September 17 & 18 | 09:30-13:30PERFORMANCE: September 19 | 19:00 Double Bill w/Koffi-Kégou Afiadegnigban\n\nEMBODIED MYTH — labHow do the stories we tell affect our sense of body? Through variations on games like charades\, we embody stories from daily life\, exploring how movements and gestures come to hold meaning. Drawing on dance\, physical theater\, and somatic practice\, we take on the role of the mythologist\, investigating how our bodies are organized by shared narratives and habits. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMYTHOLOGIES — performanceMythologies is a performance event about the ways we story our experiences and how storytelling shapes our relationship with the world and ourselves. The audience is invited to share stories; as these stories become dances\, they enter the wobbly terrain of embodiment\, their meaning and sense-making unravelling. Stories slip and crack\, scandalizing and disturbing the narratives our bodies have come to hold. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKoffi-Kégou AfiadegnigbanLAB: September 17 & 18 | 14:30-18:30PERFORMANCE: September 19 | 19:00 Double Bill w/Omer Keinan\n\nROOTS IN MOTION — labKoffi-Kégou Afiadegnigban invites participants to explore contemporary dance through a choreographic vocabulary rooted in Togolese dance tradition. Drawing on danced rituals reinterpreted in a contemporary style\, the workshop familiarizes participants with the fundamentals of Togolese dance (anchoring\, musicality\, symbolism) while experimenting with tools for contemporary dance creation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLA QUATRIÈME — performanceLa Quatrième is a spiritual journey on which I embarked to reconnect with my history\, revive my demons and exorcise them. While drifting back in time\, I try to question my past\, understand my present and better prepare for my future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT DANCE — forming futures: DECOLONIZING NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATIONWith Siegmar ZacharaisFORUM: SEPTEMBER 19 | 11:00-17:00 \n\nABOUT DANCE — forming futures — forumDECOLONIZING NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATIONABOUT DANCE – forming futures is an exchange forum for professional dance and performance artists that addresses themes of precarity and possibility in the dance and performance sphere. Each forum is structured and hosted by invited guest artists. The format of the forum is intended to be experimental\, interactive\, and grounded as much in discussion as in movement. Building on last year’s forum\, this special edition will be hosted by Siegmar Zacharias\, tackling the decolonisation of non-violent communication. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlearn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMERGE — getting into the work\, v.8  \n\n\n\nFounder & Artistic Concept: Marcela Giesche \n\n\n\nProduction Management: Maria Kousi \n\n\n\nEditorial & Financial Management: Jessy Tuddenham \n\n\n\nCommunications Director: Angela Fegers (Apricot Productions) \n\n\n\nGraphic Design: Carsten Stabenow \n\n\n\nArtist Selection: Cathy Walsh\, Areli Moran\, Johanna Kasperowitsch and Marcela Giesche with the support of Maria Kousi \n\n\n\nLAKE Team Support: Mark Grunow\, Lynne Scharf\, Kasper Jakobsen\, Lena Gebhardt \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
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