Program B.A.L.L.

Registration (only for participants of the Artist Labs)

At the accreditation booth, all participants will receive a conference badge and further information about the event. The B.A.L.L. team will be present in the foyer throughout the event and will be available to answer any questions.
Tickets for the guest performances... read more

• Access: step-free access
• Location: foyer

Lab Meet-up (only for participants of the Artist Labs)

Meet your fellow labs! The manifesto is written, the audiences mapped, the podcast produced – all that’s still missing are the encounters and discussions between the Artist Labs....read more

• Access: step-free access
• Location: Foyer

Fonds A to Z: Consultation offer of the Fonds Darstellende Künste

For the first time, the Fonds will offer a live discussion in the foyer about the funding programs. The staff of the advisory team is looking forward to questions, suggestions and feedback.

• Access: step-free access, consultations available in German and English
• Location: foyer

Registration

At the accreditation booth, all participants will receive a conference badge and further information about the event. The B.A.L.L. team will be present in the foyer throughout the event and will be available to answer any questions.
Tickets for the guest performances... read more

• Access: step-free access
• Location: foyer

Opening

Due to current events, the official opening of this year's B.A.L.L. - Bundesweites Artist Labor of the Labs will be preceded by a speech by Sivan Ben Yishai... read more

• Spoken language: German
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG, Sign Language, relaxed**
• Location: k6
• Live-Stream

Island time

The time between the opening and the evening program offers a chance to learn about the various evaluation labs and the questions and issues they address, and to engage in discussions with the performing artists. The discussion islands in the Kampnagel Foyer, set up by scenographer Philine Rinnert and designed by the Artist Labs, invite you to do just that.

• Access: the room has step-free access, the islands are not barrier-free
• Location: Foyer

Wesen der Abwesenheit – Debatte im Freiluft-Onsen der neuen Kläranlage

Ten representatives of those who are absent debate their transformational proposals for the culture of the performing arts. How can non-human life forms, nature cultures, 15-year-olds, lonely mourners, the deceased, those who can't find their way or believe the theater doesn't have anything to do with them... read more

• Access: no step-free access to the pool, ramp to the edge of the pool available, relaxed**, no beanbags
• Location: wastewater treatment plant in the Avant-Garten

Publika, Performances und Politik – Neue Zugänge, neue Gemeinschaften?

In the independent performing arts, new formats, new structures and new narrative forms have taken hold at a rapid pace over the past three years. The enormous diversity is difficult to grasp. With these new offerings have come new audiences... read more

• Format: Speeches and panel discussion
• Spoken Language: German, English
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG, sign language relaxed**
• Location: k6
• Live-Stream

Konferenz der Abwesenden

Performance: Rimini Protokoll

In the face of a global crisis, it is a matter of global cooperation. Yet this time the crisis is being fought out locally – in the name of the world: at a conference where the invited experts do not appear physically... read more

• Spoken Lanugage: German, English Subtitles can be opened via QR code on your own smartphone.
• Access: the room has step-free access
• Trigger: Stroboscopic lights, Blackout
• Location: k2

Remaining Strangers

Performance: Simone Aughterlony

Simone Aughterlony presents an elaboration of the guest/host relation and all that ensues: Notions of the stranger quickly emerge as those present get involved in recognizable social situations like... read more

• Access: step-free access, interactive performance, no fixed seating
• Location: k4

Food and reception

To finish off the day, we invite all the guests, Lab participants, and artists to join us for dinner in the Kampnagel entrance hall. Catering will be provided by the Peacetanbul team; all dishes are vegan.

• Access: step-free access
• Location: Entrance Hall (not heated)

Registration, coffee and pastries

At the accreditation booth, all participants will receive a conference badge and further information about the event. The B.A.L.L. team will be present in the foyer throughout the event and will be available to answer any questions.
Tickets for the guest performances... read more

• Access: step-free access
• Location: Foyer

Fonds A to Z: Consultation offer of the Fonds Darstellende Künste

For the first time, the Fonds will offer a live discussion in the foyer about the funding programs. The staff of the advisory team is looking forward to questions, suggestions and feedback.

• Access: step-free access, consultations available in German and English
• Location: foyer

Metalabs

After registration, participants will be able to choose between different parallel events. The capacities for the individual program events depend on the room size and format. First come, first served! We would ask participants to please register for only one slot at any given time.

Class matters: Wie soziale Herkunft beeinflusst, wer ins Theater kommt

Working in the arts is precarious – but for some more than others. Access to artistic training, knowledge of cultural codes, networks and funding instruments are closely linked to social background... read more

• Format: Speeches and panel discussion
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG, sign language, induction loop available, relaxed**
• Location: k2
• Live-Stream

Theater der Digital Natives?! – Über digitale Erzählstrukturen, Tools und Empowerment

Sharing, liking, posting – this is how "digital natives" move through the Internet: not a digital newspaper, but a communication space, a playground, a place for self-expression and sharing experiences. So, what then is the point of theater?... read more

• Format: Speeches and panel discussion
• Spoken Language: German, English
• Access: no step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask required*, relaxed**
• Location: kx

Transformationen von Publika und Kulturlandschaft: Kulturpolitisches Metalabor

The cultural policy Metalab brings together cultural policymakers from municipalities, states, and the federal government with actors from public administrations, interest groups, and the independent arts. Using concrete examples from the cultural landscape and cultural policy... read more

• Format: Panel and group discussion
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: step-free, GER↔ENG, sign language
• Location: k6
• Live-Stream

Access Dramaturgien

How can accessibility be creatively implemented not as an afterthought, but as part of the artistic production processes?... read more

• Format: Workshop
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: masks required, step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, relaxed**
• Location: k31

Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Gemeinschaftsarbeit

Participation, process orientation, durability, transdisciplinarity – the principles of participation-oriented artistic practice are in constant development. Theater as a social art is also practiced by many who were once called audiences... read more

• Format: Keynote speech and discussion
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: no step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask friendly*, relaxed**
• Location: k32

Choreografie für Einsteiger*innen

The workshop looks at dance and movement choreography for beginners. What do we want to tell and how can we create pieces that the audience understands based on our previous experiences? ...read more

• Format: Dance and movement workshop
• Spoken Language: English, German
• Access: no step-free access, relaxed**
• Note on wearing masks: the workshop involves singing and dancing together in a relatively confined space, so wearing masks is only possible to a limited degree
• Location: 6c
  

Kollegin mit Down-Syndrom, na und?

In this workshop, dancer and actress Neele Buchholz talks about her everyday life as an artist. Neele has Down Syndrome and has been working as a freelancer in the performing arts for almost two years.... read more

• Format: Workshop
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, relaxed**
• Location: p1

Kunst des Gemeinsamen. Ein Intervisions-Parcours

The independent performing arts have always been closely interwoven with the society around them. In recent years, the links have intensified: whether with civil society, science, or education... read more

• Format: Discussion and open space
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask-friendly*, relaxed**
• Location: k4

Shame Over? Sexualität und Identität in digitaler Performance mit jungen Menschen

How can digital means be used in performances in a way that enables an engagement with oneself and can also strengthen and enlighten? In the Virtual S*Exploration Lab, young people reflect on sexuality and identity...read more

• Format: Workshop
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: no step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask friendly*.
• Note: Motion sickness can occur when wearing VR glasses.
• Location: 2nd floor

Vertrauen und Versprechen – Beziehungsentwicklung zwischen ungewohnten Kulturinstitutionen und neuen Publika

Over the past three years, numerous cultural venues, artistic groups and collectives, festivals, and art institutions have been newly established. After the initial consolidation, they are now facing further development... read more

• Format: Discussion
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: no step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask friendly*, relaxed**
• Location: 5th floor

Lunch break

• Access: step-free access
• Location: Vorhalle

Fonds A to Z: Consultation offer of the Fonds Darstellende Künste

For the first time, the Fonds will offer a live discussion in the foyer about the funding programs. The staff of the advisory team is looking forward to questions, suggestions and feedback.

• Access: step-free access, consultations available in German and English
• Location: foyer

Metalabs

After registration, participants will be able to choose between different parallel events. The capacities for the individual program events depend on the room size and format. First come, first served! We would ask participants to please register for only one slot at any given time.

Bühnenräume und ihre Publika im Wandel – Situationen, Thesen, Strategien

Statistically, attendance at German-speaking theaters is clearly on the rise again. But: The audience is different. It seems to be less homogeneous; its interests have shifted... read more

• Format: Panel
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG simultaneous translation, sign language interpretation, relaxed**
• Location: k6
• Live-Stream
  

Centering the Peripheries: Perspektiven von migrantischen/transnationalen Künstler*innen und deren Publika

Transnational artists from the Global South, especially those who have not studied in Germany, have to overcome a multitude of bureaucratic and aesthetic barriers before they can gain a foothold in the German theater system. The same is true on the part of their audience... read more

• Format: Panel and discussion
• Spoken Language: English
• Access:step-free access, GER↔ENG, mask-friendly*, relaxed**
• Location: p1

Strategien und Positionen gegen rechte Backlashs

In Germany, no state government includes right-wing extremists. In other countries, artists have long learned to work under governments controlled by right-wing populist or extreme-right parties. How does this work... read more

• Format: Speeches and panel discussion
• Spoken Language: English, German
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG simultaneous translation, sign language interpretation, relaxed**
• Location: k2

Forge Creative Alliances. Quantity vs Quality: Do we need a Code of Conduct for the audience?

Most of us are familiar with the phenomenon: The code of conduct that has been painstakingly enforced in one's own safe space is almost impossible to apply to a larger audience. Does the bourgeois audience need new behavioral patterns... read more

• Format: Keynote speech and discussion
• Spoken Language: English
• Access: no step-free access (one flight of stairs), GER↔ENG if needed, mask required, relaxed** (sofa), there is a cat in the room.
• Location: Migrantpolitan building in Avant-Garten

Hallo Publikum – Alles wie immer oder Was mache ich nächsten Montag anders?

Cultural actors are increasingly developing strategies to enable new approaches and to initiate sustainable relationship work with the audience: Through community-oriented approaches, research-based work... read more

• Format: Keynote speech and discussion
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: no step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask friendly*, relaxed**
• Location: 5th floor

Spielend Nachhaltigkeit (weiter)denken - Arbeiten für und mit Jungem Publikum

In the workshop, artists working at the intersection of the independent performing arts and cultural education share the methods, knowledge, and tools that they have gathered in their projects with young people... read more

• Format: Workshop
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: no step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask friendly*
• Location: 2nd floor

PLACE – ein Talk Game zum Wandel des Publikums in postdigitalen Kontexten

Digital technologies, social media, games and post-digital narratives have significantly changed the role of the audience in the independent performing arts: What used to be called audiences are now players... read more

• Format: Keynote speech and discussion
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: no step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask friendly*, relaxed**
• Location: kx

Queereeoké: Workshop mit Tanz, Bewegung und Gesang

In the Queereeoké workshop, participants are invited to feel, embrace and celebrate their secret and unexpressed performative potential. The two-hour program will include dancing, singing... read more

• Format: Dance and movement workshop
• Spoken Language: English, German
• Access: no step-free access, relaxed**
• Note on wearing masks: the workshop involves singing and dancing together in a relatively confined space, so the wearing of masks is only possible to a limited extent.
• Location: 6c

Relaxed Performance

Many of the exclusions in the theater arise from normative expectations of how an audience should behave. Relaxed performances break with these expectations.... read more

• Format: Keynote speech and discussion
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, masks required, relaxed**, accompanying persons please also register
• Location: k31

Wo sind die Klempner*innen und Busfahrer*innen?

How do we make performance with, by, and for them? What does it look like to be an artist in service?... read more

• Format: Open Space und Workshop
• Spoken Language: English
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG, relaxed**
• Location: k4

Meet-up zu Klassismus (AT)

For some years now, there has been a new visibility for classism as a form of discrimination and the significance of social origin for audiences and actors in the performing arts.... read more

• Format: Keynote speech and discussion
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: step-free access, GER↔ENG if needed, mask required*, relaxed**
• Location: k32

Snacks

• Access: step-free access
• Location: Vorhalle

Reflexion and Outlook

In many of her works, the writer Asal Dardan deals with the situation of individuals in the face of world-changing developments and also in the face of groups united by inhuman narratives... read more

• Format: Lecture, farewell and action
• Spoken Language: German
• Access: step-free access, relaxed**, GER↔ENG, sign language
• Location: k6
• Live-Stream

Konferenz der Abwesenden

Performance: Rimini Protokoll

In the face of a global crisis, it is a matter of global cooperation. Yet this time the crisis is being fought out locally – in the name of the world: at a conference where the invited experts do not appear physically... read more

• Spoken Lanugage: German, English Subtitles can be opened via QR code on your own smartphone.
• Access: the room has step-free access
• Trigger: Stroboscopic lights, Blackout
• Location: k2

Queereeoké: Das Binäre durchbrechen

Over the past 10 years, the Queereeoké collective has succeeded not only in building a huge fan base, but also in reconnecting audiences with art and with themselves. The artistic practice... read more

• Access: smoke-free, wheelchair accessible, care team and seating available in the gallery.
• Possible triggers: rapid light changes, loud music, confined space in standing area possible, stuffy air possible, crowds, alcohol served.