Unfinished Fridays #124
22 May 2026, 19:30 – 22:30
Works in Progress + Moderated Feedback
Unfinished Fridays, established 2014, is a free, recurring dance performance series at LAKE Studios featuring new works and excerpts by local and international resident artists and special guests.
The evening comprises 4 work-in-progress pieces followed by a moderated discussion to help propel these creations into their next phase of production.
Presenting Artists:
Zhuojun Li, Sophia Seiss & Wibke Storkan with Ali Hasan, Manuel Lindner with Frederike Doffin, Naïma Mazic with Kira Kirsch and Samuel Mastorakis
Come early and grab a beer at our bar, per donation.
Stay late and have a chat with your community at LAKE.
Program below!
Supported by the Berlin Senate
LAKE Studios Berlin
Entrance Free. Please Register:
CARRIERS – carry on (extract)
by Sophia Seiss & Wibke Storkan
Performers: Sophia Seiss, Wibke Storkan, Ali Hasan
live music: Ali Hasan
CARRIERS asks what it means to care for one another — to take responsibility, find allies, and recognize survival as a collective task.
In a triadic dialogue of bodies, sound, and space, we explore and follow our desires for stability in a precare environment, creating and carrying one another through a space where letting go becomes liberation
Halb Baum Halb Mensch Halb Fisch # 2
by Manuel Lindner
Performers: Frederike Doffin, Manuel Lindner
Costume advice: Nellie Gossen
Halb Baum Halb Mensch Halb Fisch # 2 explores how performance can become an ecosystem of its own, inviting visitors into a reciprocal relationship with bark-woven sculptural objects and a voice practice centered on breath and resonance. It asks how performance might cultivate an aesthetic of sustainable interrelation across human and more-than-human bodies. A woven bark structure extends the body as costume, sculpture, and architecture, amplifying visibility while rendering movement audible. It is a subtle form of protest that counters the logic of separation with an ongoing spiraling movement towards an open-ended form. Here new arrangements and social choreographies can be practiced and imagined.
<< Relocation >>
by Zhuojun Li
In an experience of moving house, the body is continuously occupied by the weight of everyday objects.
Different parts of the body are taken up, and movement is redistributed.
How the body is governed by the weight and size of different objects becomes central: in the process of moving, weight is no longer merely a burden, but a force that continuously acts upon the body.
It alters posture, interrupts rhythm, and gradually trains the body—how to perceive, how to adapt, and even how to continue moving.
us, we need
by n ï m company / Naïma Mazic
Performers: Naïma Mazic, Kira Kirsch, Samuel Mastorakis
Communication! of three people: Kira and Naïma will dance and Sam will play the vibraphone. In the garden of LAKE Studios Berlin one can witness their first encounter of interdependency, shaping a shared fabric of sound, movement and presence. This work-in-progress is a first research for us, we need: a long-durational dance performance and concert for a septet of three musicians and four dancers, unfolding over 3 hours and 33 seconds.
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