Cabaret Heartbreak

Blending performance, drag, dance, music, poetry and political absurdity, Berlin-based artists come together in the “Vessel of Love”.

In the face of cynicism, isolation and exhaustion, ‘Cabaret Heartbreak’ relies on wit, joy, glamour, defiance and radical tenderness. In a present where despair increasingly shapes both political and emotional realities, the stage becomes a temporary refuge: a space to laugh, mourn, fantasise and scream together – and to stay together just a little bit longer.

With “Buttox Antiphon”, ABA NAIA brings to the stage a call-and-response piece about selfishness, self-assertion and the arsehole within us and around us.

Alvin Collantes encounters his drag persona “Bibingka” in an intimate ritual caught between staying and leaving, mourning and becoming. Werner Hirsch, alias Antonia Baehr, explores the scream as sound and form, rhythm and gesture.

Ariel Efraim Ashbel takes the weekly Torah reading, the Parasha, as the starting point for a performative exploration of Noah’s Ark and the Tower of Babel. Cassie Augusta Jørgensen’s ‘Hamletta’ navigates grief, transformation and the choreography of the domesticated body. Faravaz gives a voice to experiences of exile, freedom and self-determination.

Thelma Buabeng and Olympia Bukkakis lead the audience through the evening. Together, they hold together what remains of the broken heart.

(GERMAN/ENGLISH)