Writing and Orality

Writing Workshop with Celina Baljeet Basra & Melanie Jame Wolf
October 31, 2026, 3-6 pm | English
KUBUS, Radialsystem, Berlin 

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The Resonating Body

Reading, Performance and Screenings with Alvin Tran, emet ezell and Melanie Jame Wolf
October 31, 2026, 7 pm | English
SAAL, Radialsystem, Berlin 

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Artist Talk

Talk with Alvin Tran, emet ezell and Melanie Jame Wolf, moderated by Celina Baljeet Basra
October 31, 2026, 8.30 pm | English
SAAL, Radialsystem, Berlin 

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Writing is a practice of knowledge transmission, memory, and self-positioning. In the intertwining of body, orality, and writing, hybrid forms emerge in which experience, history, and the present are inscribed and carried forward into. Everything I make starts with language, with a word, a title, a repeated phrase, says the choreographer, performer, writer, and visual artist Melanie Jame Wolf, who explores the vulnerability of the live moment and the body as an unruly political riddle. Visual artist and writer emet ezell explores themes of devotion, dispossession, ruin, and return. Choreographer and artist Alvin Tran works with pop songs, music videos and film, and explores how folk dance‘s structures challenge linear narratives of postmodern dance. Who are we, in a bodily sense, when we write? How does writing translate to choreography, performance, film, and vice versa? The artists in this chapter reflect on these and other questions — through writing practice, performance, and conversation.

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.