Events
Nach, Valeska Gert Visiting Professor Winter Semester 2026/27. Opening Event: "The Powerful Margins. Dance of Struggles and Bodies of Resistance"
As a dance artist with a background in Krump, Nach explores her identity as a dancer and as a woman, whilst defying restrictive categorisations. Having grown up in Bobigny, France, in a family with Senegalese, Cape Verdean and Vietnamese roots, she recalls the constant presence of music and dance as part of social and community life. As the Valeska Gert Guest Professor, Nach is dedicated to practice-based research into the power of the marginalised, their narratives and their independent, self-assured and resistant creativity. Can protest dance unleash liberating and political power through the writing of movement, the development of choreographic scores and the telling of stories? What is the relationship with historical and personal archives? How can we break free from inherited attitudes and traditional bonds by writing new scores? And if so: what exactly defines a score? Free admission Welcome Nele Hertling, dramaturg, theatre director, director of the Performing Arts Section Prof. Dr. Lucia Ruprecht, dance scholar, director of the master's programme in Critical Dance Stuides at Freie Universität Berlin Lecture Nach – The Powerful Margins. Dance of Struggles and Bodies of Resistance Talk With Lucia Ruprecht and Nach
Location: Club Room Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg 10 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten +49 (0)30 200 57-2000
ESZTER SALAMON: The Living Book
As part of the 20th anniversary of the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship, the internationally renowned and award-winning artist, choreographer and filmmaker Eszter Salamon has worked with students of Critical Dance Studies as the the Summer 2026 Valeska Gert Visiting Professor.
Location: Blackbox Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin
Lecture | Susan Manning. "Mary Wigman and Valeska Gert"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Jacqueline Davis. '“Disappointing," "Depressing," "Unusual": Valeska Gert in America (1936, 1939-1947)'
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Kirsten Maar. "Dis-articulation in Jule Flierls 'Störlaut' and Eszter Salamons 'Voices and Witches and the 'Valeska Gert Monument'"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Helene Herold. "Valeska Gert and her Afterlives – The Valeska Gert Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts"
Location: Seminar Room III (SRIII) Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
ESZTER SALAMON: Transgenerational, Poetic, and Political Empathy
Opening of the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship of Eszter Salamon
Location: Blackbox Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin
Lecture | Felix Stenger. "Death is Grotesque: Afterlife as Survival"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Paul Flaig "From Groteskfilm to Grotesktanz: Valeska Gert between Weimar Cinema and American Slapstick"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Susanne Foellmer "Valeska Gert: Art as Critical Practice"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Kate Elswit. "Valeska Gert's Provocations for Dance Studies"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Lindsey Drury. "Hexe: Gert as Afterlife"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Yvonne Hardt. "Re-Searching Valeska Gert: Dance Studies‘ methodological challenges and transformations"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Lecture | Lucia Ruprecht. "Valeska Gert and the Afterlife of Gestures"
Location: Hörsaal Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Closing Event: Pol Pi, Valeska Gert Gastprofessorship
Location: Black Box @ Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz 4 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Symposium | Duplicity/ Duplicität: Betwixt Intimates and Strangers
Location: Symposium is hosted at Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität with Thursday activities hosted by Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt Universität
Opening Lecture: Valeska Gert Visiting Professor Pol Pi
Location: Hörsaal, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft (Lecture hall, Institute for Theater Studies) Freie Universität Berlin Grunewaldstr. 35 12165 Berlin
Relatives. Three dance films
A cooperative event by Studio K77 and the Critical Dance Studies Program at Freie Universität Berlin 17 October, 1 8 :00 | Kastanienallee 77 — Kunst- und Kulturprojekt Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin Followed by a discussion and refreshments at K77 As seating is very limited, please reserve here: 🔗 Reservation Form
Location: Kastanienallee 77 — Kunst- und Kulturprojekt Kino, Vorderhaus 10435 Berlin
Closing Event: Viktor Ruban, Valeska Gert Gastprofessorship
Location: Black Box Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz Pariser Platz 4 10117 Berlin
Lecture | Sara Wookey
Location: Hörsaal, Institute for Theater Studies, Grunewaldstraße 35, 12165 Berlin.
Opening: Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship of Viktor Ruban
Location: Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg 10 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten +49 (0)30 200 57-2000
Energy Flows: Performance, Modernity, and the Histories of Science and Technology
Location: Mondays, 16:00-18:00, c.t. Hörsaal, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Grunewaldstraße 35 12165 Berlin
Closing Event | Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship of Saar Magal
Location: Blackbox Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin
Opening Lecture: Valeska Gert Guest Professorship Saar Magal
Location: Clubraum, Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg 10 10557
To Bloom () Florecimiento: Closing Event of the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship of Amanda Piña
In her current artistic research, Amanda Piña delves into the reappearance of oceanic movements, exploring water as a fluid being and the ocean as a realm of ancestral knowledge.
Location: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg. Halle 3 Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
To Bloom () Florecimiento: A Workshop
Location: Lateinamerika-Institut: Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56 Institut für Theaterwissenschaft: Grunewaldstr. 35
Opening Event of the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship of Amanda Piña
Location: Clubraum Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin