SUBMERGE

For five weeks, we immerse ourselves in dance performances by a mix of local and international artists.

Invited artists share the creation of their pieces in ‘re-creative’ labs, reveal their choreographic methods and invite colleagues to participate in their creative process.

Each lab ends with a public performance of the piece explored in the workshop. 


SUBMERGE inspires solidarity by rethinking the way artists exchange ideas and giving participants a sense of belonging and agency within their community.


We warmly invite audiences of all ages to the public performances of the dance performances.

• Tickets €15 single performance, €25
  
• Reservations: reservations@lakestudiosberlin.com
  

Programme

Saturday 26 July, 8 p.m. & 9 p.m. (double bill)

Marlon Barrios Solano, 8 p.m.: BORN IN LATENT SPACE – dance performance lecture

A live lecture performance that unfolds as a speculative real-time collaboration between the artist and machine learning models. Sitting in front of a laptop, Solano engages with generative AI systems to explore latent space, conceived not only as a technical structure but as a realm of possible stories.

Kasia Wolińska, 9 p.m.: KISS – dance performance

This work for three dancers was created in parallel with Prince's posthumously released album ‘Piano & A Microphone 1983’. Full of energy and rhythm, the piece explores different dance traditions and provides a framework for the interplay between the dancers' bodies and the audience's experience.


Sunday 27 July, 5 p.m.

Cathy Walsch & Cécile Bally
ÜBER ÜBERÜBERMORGEN (The Day After Tomorrow) – Dance performance for children and adults aged 6 and above

Über Überüberübermorgen is a journey through time filled with magic, bright costumes, extravagant stage design and funny creatures that are half human, half animal. The future is just around the corner! But what will it look like? Will there be more nature in cities? More conversations between humans and animals? Together with dancers Cécile and Cathy, the audience travels to future universes and meets the drumming Tintelefant. They explore what happens when you change the order of things, when you turn the order of days, weeks and years upside down. Together with the audience, they reflect on our relationship with time and propose a solarpunk future. Let's join the Tintelefant in turning our hopes for the future into reality!


Saturday 2 August, 6 p.m.,

DOUBLE MUCH COLLECTIVE
Coiling Against the Sun – dance performance for adults and children aged 6

In this evolving performance, the ropes become more than just jumping tools – they become connecting links. They keep the rhythm, hold the group together and honour the long tradition of jumping as cultural resistance. From intense jumping to solemn silence, soundscapes and sequences, the work also reminds us of the perspective of black feminism, which understands Double Dutch not only as a game, but as a living practice of community, joy and refusal.


Saturday 9 August, 8 p.m.

Bebe Miller Company: Angie Hauser & Darrell Jones
FABLE – dance performance

A duet performance reveals the interpersonal subtext and physical reciprocity that characterise our particular form of artistic engagement – while connecting the audience with their own experiences of creative partnership. Filtered through the collaboration of Miller, Hauser and Jones, which began in 2001 with the Bessie Award-winning piece Verge and draws on 25 years of shared and independent practice, it explores the collision of their inner processes as dance artists, friends and citizens.


Friday 15 August, 8 p.m.

Estelle Ebenga / Ilondzo Company
CONCRETE ROSES – dance performance

A trio dance and slam performance combining hip-hop, house, krump and vocal freestyle, choreographed by Estelle Ebenga together with dancers Iman Gele and Sandra Roberts. When words fail, the trio lets it all out. They push each other to peak performance. They dream together. They cheer each other on. A tribute to sisterhood.


Saturday, 16 August, 12 noon

Siegmar Zacharias
I don't want to swallow anymore – Performance

An improvised performance that deals with the materiality of speech, the effort of speaking and the obligation to persevere with processes even when they are unpleasant. This soma-acoustic, drooling lecture addresses work, solidarity, and digestive disorders – things we can no longer swallow or endure.


Saturday, 23 August (double bill, 8 p.m. & 9 p.m.)

Isu Kim Lee & Analu (8 p.m.) - Miri Né Sori - Dance performance

Miri Né Sori means ‘sound of the Milky Way’ in Korean. In the pan-Asian myth ‘The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl,’ two lovers appear who are separated by the Milky Way at opposite ends of the sky. Based on this (im)possibility of achieving perfection, Miri Né Sori explores the longing encounter of oscillating waves of overlapping voices – originating from two bodies that constantly elude identification.

Mehdi Dahkan (9 p.m.) KMS of Resistance – dance performance

A powerful solo in which breath acts as a trigger for movement, rhythm and interdependence. Inspired by the Moroccan Aïta tradition, in which breath serves as both a musical and physical companion, the work reveals the body's instinctive reactions to changing breathing rhythms and creates a dynamic interplay between what happens internally and what is visible externally.