BERLIN MOVES @ Uferstudios – Tomorrow Never Knows & Bobby

Following numerous film and video productions, BERLIN MOVES presents a double bill of live dance performances. On the stage of Studio 1 at the Uferstudios, young dancers explore the tension between separation and connection in two independent yet complementary choreographies.

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS is an interdisciplinary dance production about the search for connectedness. Between club culture and meditation, external reality and inner perception collide. Hip-hop and breaking meet meditative, trance-like movements and yoga asanas. Set to pounding Chicago house beats, contemporary electronic sounds, and the ethereal, meditative compositions of Meredith Monk, dance rituals emerge that oscillate between isolation and shared experience.

Networks that both separate and connect are the central choreographic and visual principle. The stage evokes nervous systems, organic structures, and the cosmic web of invisible relationships.

In collaboration with the tape art collective Tape That and video artist Miguel Canal, a walk-through installation takes shape—a map of inner and outer experiences that extends to the dancers’ bodies.

Under the artistic direction of Lior Shneior, the BERLIN MOVERS Ensemble is developing the production through a collaborative process. Dance, media art, and tape art merge in TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS into an immersive performance that explores how we find connection in a digitized present—with ourselves, with one another, and with the world.

The evening opens with BOBBY, a collage of several short choreographies by young dancers from various Berlin crews.

BOBBY features powerful dance sequences inspired by the music of Bobby McFerrin. His work blends jazz, classical, gospel, and pop into a musical language that bridges Afro-diasporic and European musical traditions. McFerrin became world-famous with “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”—a song whose title was inspired by a saying of the spiritual teacher Meher Baba and which stands for optimism and openness. BOBBY is an invitation to discover one’s own roots, to see differences as a strength, and to foster new connections together.