Cuerpos de Tierra - Earth Bodies

Workshop with Martha Hincapié Charry
September 11, 2026, 1-3 pm | German/English
STUDIO, Radialsystem, Berlin 

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The Cosmic Body

Workshop with Dr. Rajyashree Ramesh
September 11, 2026, 3:30-5:30 pm | German/English
STUDIO, Radialsystem, Berlin 

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Amazonia 2024

Lecture-Performance with Martha Hincapié Charry
September 12, 2026, 4-6 pm | English
SAAL, Radialsystem, Berlin 

The Cosmic Body

Lecture-Performance with Dr. Rajyashree Ramesh
September 12, 2026, 4-6 pm | English
SAAL, Radialsystem, Berlin 

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On Unarriving

Performance by Sage Ni‘Ja Whitson
September 12, 2026, 6:30–7:15 pm | English
STUDIO, Radialsystem, Berlin 

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What do we mean when we talk about bodies? Contemporary artistic approaches challenge the notion of a “neutral” body in Western dance, revealing it as historically and culturally constructed. In Indigenous and non-Western knowledge systems, the body emerges not as a malleable object, but as a carrier of memory, relation, and meaning. The artistic practices of Dr. Rajyashree Ramesh, Martha Hincapié Charry, and Sage Ni’Ja Whitson present the body as a site where history, emotion, knowledge, and environment intersect: In The Cosmic Body, Ramesh conceives of the body as part of cosmic orders; in Amazonia 2040, Hincapié Charry views it as an ecofeminist territory in which (de)colonial and ecological issues are inscribed; and in their performance On Unarriving Whitson approaches dark matter and dark energy as sacred and cosmic technology. Movement becomes a practice of reconnection — with territory, cosmology, and community — and at the same time an act of resilience and resistance.

LA PALABRE Space — Tea, Reading & Resting Room

September 12, 2–9 p.m.
KUBUS, Radialsystem, Berlin

Tea, Reading & Resting Room with artistic interventions. The programme at LA PALABRE Space is curated by Arantxa Ciafrino. On September 11th, LA PALABRE Space will feature the dancing project Coole Kinder. More information on the LA PALABRE Space can be found here.

The series UNEXPECTED LESSONS — Knowledges of Body and Sound is funded by the LOTTO Foundation Berlin. In cooperation with the Betty Center for Movement Research in Dance Studies at LMU Munich.