BA Graduate Works 2026

BA Dance, Context, Choreography / September 14–28, 2026

On seven evenings the graduates of the BA Dance, Context, Choreography show their final projects. With works by Saeed Asadsangabi, Francesco Corsi, Johann Eggebrecht, Elena Faki, Kriá Ferrari, Natalia Higuita, Edgar Mauser, Noah Rees, Giuli Machado, Amara T.Saavedra , Coco Luna Watts, Nomi Wiener, Konstantin Wloch, Yuchen Xie.

BA Graduate Works / September 14–28.9. 2026
Free admission. Please note that you need a ticket. Tickets are available 10 days before the performance via pretix.

Mon 14.09.2026
17:00 & 19:00 | Studio 8
COVERED
Natalia Higuita

18:00 | Studio 11
This cave is a tunnel
Noah Rees

WED 16.9.2026
17:00 & 19:00 | Studio 8
Secretly Bound/Heimlich Gefesselt
Konstantin Wloch

18:00 | Studio 11
Apocadisco
Nomi Wiener

FRI 18.9.
17:00 & 19:00 | Studio 8

THE WORLD IS BURNING AND YOU’RE SCARED OF BEING LOVED
Edgar Mauser, Frida Zack, Mila Nhu-Nhien Horst

18:00 | Studio 11
FEMTOSECONDS
Elena Faki

MON 21.9
17:00 & 19:00 | Studio 8

tba
Saeed Asadsangabi

18:00 | Studio 11
Choreographing Periphery (WT)
Kriá Ferrari

WED 23.9.
17:00 & 19:00 | Studio 8

Au claire de la lune
Coco Luna Watts

18:00 | Studio 11
Pasos de Patio
Amara T. Saavedra

FRI 25.9. 
17:00 & 19:00 | Studio 8

Passacaglia
Francesco Corsi

18:00 | Studio 11
CACOS (Shards)
Giuli Machado

MON 28.9. 18:00 | Studio 11
Until It's Something Else
Johann Eggebrecht & Ismael Yakout 

Documentation BA Graduate Works since 2023

BA Graduate Works / September 17–27.9. 2025

On four evenings the graduates of the BA Dance, Context, Choreography showed their final projects. With works by Mateo Argerich, Ella Olivia Bender, Anton Gerzina, Kamila-Monika Li, Sefa Okutan, Mahshad Rezai, Milena Stein, Marie Stremmel, Naomi Wiener, Frida Zack.

17.9. WED
Studio 8: 18:00 & 20:00 Frida Zack and Guests “SPECK”
19.9. FRI
Studio 8: 18:00 & 20:00 Sefa Okutan “Karakoncolos”
Studio 11: 19:00–19:45 Marie Stremmel “There is a place that I call my home”
23.9. TUES
Studio 11: 19:00–19:45 Pelusia / Mateo Argerich “Psycho-Buddha”
25.9. THURS
Studio 8: 18:00 & 20:00 Milena Stein in company “Safe Mob”
Studio 11: 19:00–19:45 Anton Gerzina “Pipes and Peers“
27.9. SAT
Studio 11: 18:00 & 20:00 Mahshad Rezai “Can we meet today?“
Studio 11: 19:00–19:45 Ella Olivia Bender Semerci “URSULA“

Evening programme for Download:

On four evenings, the graduates of the BA Dance, Context, Choreography presented their final projects. With works by bobi h stojaković, Safete Muchave, Núria Carrillo Erra, Suet Wa Tam, Sophia Obermeyer, Lucas Godoi, Alejandro González, Auro Orso.

    Schedule

    Wed, 18.09.2024
    18:00 h + 20:00h > bobi h stojaković: For Whom the Bell Tells (The Tales of the Other within)
    19:00h: Safete Muchave Invisible Chains

    Fri, 20.09.2024
    18:00h + 20:00h: Núria Carrillo Erra The Numbers of this Performance are 20,18, 20, 8
    19:00h: Sophia Obermeyer 0 Euro, but Perfect Alignment

    Tues, 24.09.2024
    18:00h: Suet Wa Tam Longing to Be
    19:00h: Lucas Godoi No Time for Titles
    20:30h: Alejandro González Then We Will Become Obsessed with the Idea of Losing Everything We Have Achieved

    Thurs, 26.09.2024
    18:00h: Suet Wa Tam Longing to Be
    19:00h: Auro Orso Perreo Entre los Mundos
    20:30h: Alejandro González Then We Will Become Obsessed with the Idea of Losing Everything We Have Achieved

    Evening programme for Download

    Programm Freitag 9. Sept
    ST11
    | 18:00 Performance-Installation - Zuki Ringart

    Programm Dienstag 13. Sept
    ST 8
     | 16:00 + 18:30 hrs - Nina Wesemann, ST 11 | 17:15 hrs - Johanna Ryynänen, ST 11 | 19:45 hrs - Maud Buckenmeyer

    Programm Donnerstat 15. Sept
    ST 8
     | 16:00 + 18:30 hrs - Gareth Okan, ST 11 | 17:15 hrs - Thiago Rosa, ST 11 | 19:45-20:30 hrs - Aleksandra Petrushevska

    Programm Samstag 17. Sept
    ST 8
     | 16:00 + 18:30 hrs - Liisi Hint & Maria Ladopoulos, ST 11 | 17:15 hrs - Soomin Chae, ST 11 | 19:45 hrs - Miguel Witzke Pereira

    Calendar

    Fri09.9.2218:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Zuki Ringart

    Another form of the living thing

    Another form of the living thing © Nerya Shohat Silberberg

    A journey towards the embodiment of the eternal body that we all might be.

    BA
    Tue13.9.2216:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Nina Wesemann

    still moving, yet still

    still moving, yet still© Nina Wesemann

    When do stills become movement and can a body ever be still?

    BA
    Tue13.9.2217:15
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Johanna Ryynänen

    eighty °

    eighty ° © Johanna Ryynaenen

    In the search for the act of softening “eighty °” looks into the Finnish sauna tradition and its produced state of being - the state of sauna.  >

    BA
    Tue13.9.2218:30
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Nina Wesemann

    still moving, yet still

    still moving, yet still© Nina Wesemann

    When do stills become movement and can a body ever be still?

    BA
    Tue13.9.2219:45
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Maud Buckenmeyer

    Farewell

    Farewell© Google Art Project

    Imagine the scene: a character finds themselves alone in the leftovers of a party. They claim the party can’t be over, it is just starting, now.  >

    BA
    Thu15.9.2216:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Gareth Okan

    Looking up the pros and cons of making relief cuts in the underside of a table top to prevent warpage.

    Looking up the pros and cons of making relief cuts in the underside of a table top to prevent warpage.© Gareth Okan

    what does it mean to labor with love?

    BA
    Thu15.9.2217:15
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Thiago Rosa

    Bestiary

    Bestiary

    “A true history and description of the wild, nude, and fierce man-eating peoples in the New World” - Hans Staden (1557)  >

    BA
    Thu15.9.2218:30
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Gareth Okan

    Looking up the pros and cons of making relief cuts in the underside of a table top to prevent warpage.

    Looking up the pros and cons of making relief cuts in the underside of a table top to prevent warpage.© Gareth Okan

    what does it mean to labor with love?

    BA
    Thu15.9.2219:45
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Aleksandra Petrushevska

    Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy

    Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy© Aleksandra Petrushevska

    An ode to the female fantasy and an invitation to come closer to the fragile interior world.

    BA
    Sat17.9.2216:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Liisi Hint & Maria Ladopoulos

    have you ever heard the sound of sorrow being peeled?

    have you ever heard the sound of sorrow being peeled?© Liisi Hint, Maria Ladopoulos

    Two bodies negotiating the comfortable and the uncomfortable, gentleness and attack, being in the in-between, finding each other, melting together. And at >

    BA
    Sat17.9.2217:15
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Soomin Chae

    Do you want to continue this game? 4,3,2,1....

    Do you want to continue this game? 4,3,2,1....© Soomin Chae

    Have you ever had a desire to break away from your daily routine?

    BA
    Sat17.9.2218:30
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Liisi Hint & Maria Ladopoulos

    have you ever heard the sound of sorrow being peeled?

    have you ever heard the sound of sorrow being peeled?© Liisi Hint, Maria Ladopoulos

    Two bodies negotiating the comfortable and the uncomfortable, gentleness and attack, being in the in-between, finding each other, melting together. And at >

    BA
    Sat17.9.2219:45
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    miguel witzke pereira

    Lighthouse

    Lighthouse© Miguel Witzke Pereira

    A seductive homage to vulnerability, an invitation to shed the armour, a love story with the darkness and an attempt at self-healing in the presence of >

    BA
    Wed18.9.2418:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    bobi h. stojaković

    For Whom the Bell Tells (The Tales of the Other within)

    For Whom the Bell Tells (The Tales of the Other within)

    A time-travel fantasy woven out of movement, blurred images, characters, dragged music clips and pagan mythology.

    BA
    Wed18.9.2419:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Safete Muchave

    Invisible Chains

    Invisible Chains

    How do social norms and cultural beliefs limit individual freedom and opportunities?

    BA
    Wed18.9.2420:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    bobi h. stojaković

    For Whom the Bell Tells (The Tales of the Other within)

    For Whom the Bell Tells (The Tales of the Other within)

    A time-travel fantasy woven out of movement, blurred images, characters, dragged music clips and pagan mythology.

    BA
    Fri20.9.2418:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Núria Carrillo Erra

    The Numbers of this Performance are 20, 18, 20, 8

    The Numbers of this Performance are 20, 18, 20, 8© Núria Carrillo Erra (paper maker: Daniel Puiggròs)

    The everyday is the place of change. The everyday is the place where everything stays the same.

    BA
    Fri20.9.2419:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Sophia Obermeyer

    0 Euro, but Perfect Alignment

    0 Euro, but Perfect Alignment

    Do humans stand on two feet? Sometimes, maybe, some of them, if it is not too exhausting.

    BA
    Fri20.9.2420:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Núria Carrillo Erra

    The Numbers of this Performance are 20, 18, 20, 8

    The Numbers of this Performance are 20, 18, 20, 8© Núria Carrillo Erra (paper maker: Daniel Puiggròs)

    The everyday is the place of change. The everyday is the place where everything stays the same.

    BA
    Tue24.9.2418:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Suet Wa Tam 譚雪華

    longing to Be

    longing to Be

    A piece about Hong Kong that uses dance, poetry, language, and projection to portray the vibrant and dynamic spirit of the metropolis from Asia.  >

    BA
    Tue24.9.2419:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Lucas Godoi

    No Time for Titles

    No Time for Titles

    The research project explores the intersection of personal experience, colonialism, labor, and identity through the lens of a delivery worker in Berlin.  >

    BA
    Tue24.9.2420:30
    Thesis
    BA Graduate Works

    Alejandro González

    Then We Will Become Obsessed with the Idea of Losing Everything We Have Achieved

    Then We Will Become Obsessed with the Idea of Losing Everything We Have Achieved

    This is an invitation to a dinner in a private space. An excuse to gather people, to eat together, to offer our body, to call everything dance.  >

    BA
    Thu26.9.2418:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Suet Wa Tam 譚雪華

    longing to Be

    longing to Be

    A piece about Hong Kong that uses dance, poetry, language, and projection to portray the vibrant and dynamic spirit of the metropolis from Asia.  >

    BA
    Thu26.9.2419:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Auro Orso

    PERREO ENTRE LOS MUNDOS

    PERREO ENTRE LOS MUNDOS© bobi stojaković & Klara Mohammadi

    A constant transformation and enigma of a flesh body in a duo with a white silicone body, moving between pleasure, challenges, distortion and shedding.  >

    BA
    Thu26.9.2420:30
    Thesis
    BA Graduate Works

    Alejandro González

    Then We Will Become Obsessed with the Idea of Losing Everything We Have Achieved

    Then We Will Become Obsessed with the Idea of Losing Everything We Have Achieved

    This is an invitation to a dinner in a private space. An excuse to gather people, to eat together, to offer our body, to call everything dance.  >

    BA
    Wed17.9.2518:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Frida Zack and Guests

    SPECK

    SPECK© Paul Ott

    Fat bodies, fat moves. In ‘SPECK’, Frida Zack and Guests celebrate body fat with beats, sweat and boom. Against discriminatory body norms and for radical >

    BA
    Wed17.9.2520:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Frida Zack and Guests

    SPECK

    SPECK© Paul Ott

    Fat bodies, fat moves. In ‘SPECK’, Frida Zack and Guests celebrate body fat with beats, sweat and boom. Against discriminatory body norms and for radical >

    BA
    Fri19.9.2518:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Sefa Okutan

    Karakoncolos

    Karakoncolos© Hassandra

    A shapeshifting solo: Karakoncolos. Rage meets joy, seduction meets audience. Rooted in Laz mythology it invites to be demonized together.  >

    BA
    Fri19.9.2519:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Marie Stremmel

    There is a place that I call my home

    There is a place that I call my home © Marie Stremmel

    In the beginning there was a longing.

    BA
    Fri19.9.2520:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Sefa Okutan

    Karakoncolos

    Karakoncolos© Hassandra

    A shapeshifting solo: Karakoncolos. Rage meets joy, seduction meets audience. Rooted in Laz mythology it invites to be demonized together.  >

    BA
    Tue23.9.2519:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Pelusia / Mateo Argerich

    Psycho-Buddha

    Psycho-Buddha© Rhonda Winter

    "I’m not comfortable at this party." Psycho-Buddha offers a subversive liturgy to sing, to scream, to share the passions and struggles of coming together, >

    BA
    Thu25.9.2518:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Milena Stein

    Safe Mob

    Safe Mob© Milena Stein

    From twilight emerges a shifting body of many voices. A fragile, uncanny dance between merging, dissolving, and the yearning to connect.  >

    BA
    Thu25.9.2519:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Anton Gerzina

    Pipes and Peers

    Pipes and Peers© Frida Zack

    That liminal moment — right before the first hydrogen nuclei manage to fuse — the “almost” of starlife.

    BA
    Thu25.9.2520:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Milena Stein

    Safe Mob

    Safe Mob© Milena Stein

    From twilight emerges a shifting body of many voices. A fragile, uncanny dance between merging, dissolving, and the yearning to connect.  >

    BA
    Sat27.9.2518:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Mahshad Rezai

    Can we meet today?

    Can we meet today?© Frida Zack

    The bodies taken by turns and spins.The inner and outer tornadoes that might seperate us. Can we stay connected to each other?  >

    BA
    Sat27.9.2519:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Ella Olivia Bender Semerci

    URSULA

    URSULA© Ella Olivia Bender Semerci

    The trees sing a song, the river sings a melody, the water sings the truth, the witch sings.

    BA
    Sat27.9.2520:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Mahshad Rezai

    Can we meet today?

    Can we meet today?© Frida Zack

    The bodies taken by turns and spins.The inner and outer tornadoes that might seperate us. Can we stay connected to each other?  >

    BA
    Mon14.9.2617:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Natalia Higuita

    COVERED

    COVERED© Annabel Wood

    A creature appears. A choreographic solo inviting audiences into the uncertain space between dreaming and waking, where heightened attention shapes what >

    Mon14.9.2618:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Noah Rees 

    This cave is a tunnel

    This cave is a tunnel© Jonas Rees

    Three performers invite the unexpected and explore the fear that emerges through letting go and being together.

    Mon14.9.2619:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Natalia Higuita

    COVERED

    COVERED© Annabel Wood

    A creature appears. A choreographic solo inviting audiences into the uncertain space between dreaming and waking, where heightened attention shapes what >

    Wed16.9.2617:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Konstantin Wloch

    Secretly Bound

    Secretly Bound© [Translate to English:]

    One thing unites them all - whether it’s an Ossi, an aunt, a dog, or a stone: each is complex, emotional, and carrying a personal burden.  >

    Wed16.9.2618:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Nomi Wiener

    Apocadisco

    Apocadisco© [Translate to English:]

    The audience arrives late to a party about to end. Grief and celebration meet in a body that is constantly transforming.  >

    Wed16.9.2619:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Konstantin Wloch

    Secretly Bound

    Secretly Bound© [Translate to English:]

    One thing unites them all - whether it’s an Ossi, an aunt, a dog, or a stone: each is complex, emotional, and carrying a personal burden.  >

    Fri18.9.2617:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Edgar Mauser

    The world is burning and you're scared of being loved

    The world is burning and you're scared of being loved © [Translate to English:]

    The interdisciplinary dance performance explores queer femininity as a site of resistance, spirituality, and embodied knowledge.  >

    Fri18.9.2618:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Elena Faki

    FEMTOSECONDS

    FEMTOSECONDS© [Translate to English:]

    A body enters the threshold between ritual and rave, carrying histories, fractures, and the possibility of becoming otherwise.  >

    Fri18.9.2619:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Edgar Mauser

    The world is burning and you're scared of being loved

    The world is burning and you're scared of being loved © [Translate to English:]

    The interdisciplinary dance performance explores queer femininity as a site of resistance, spirituality, and embodied knowledge.  >

    Mon21.9.2618:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Kriá Ferrari

    Choreographing Periphery (WT)


    Choreographing Periphery (WT)
© Kría Ferrari

    A devoted worker. A vandalized statue. A psychedelic artist. A junkie. A public square. A place to sit and chat - or shout, if you like. Social climbing or >

    Wed23.9.2617:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Coco Luna Watts

    au clair de lune

    au clair de lune© Arno Declair

    The solo work 'au clair de lune' takes us on a visceral journey exploring the relating to femininity, in a performance that transcends linear rationality.  >

    Wed23.9.2618:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Amara Thomas Saavedra

    Pasos de Patio

    Pasos de Patio© Amara Thomas Saavedra

    Pasos de Patio (AT) is a duet that explores the fictionality of nostalgia in our memory as a form of guilty pleasure and choreographic tool.  >

    Wed23.9.2619:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Coco Luna Watts

    au clair de lune

    au clair de lune© Arno Declair

    The solo work 'au clair de lune' takes us on a visceral journey exploring the relating to femininity, in a performance that transcends linear rationality.  >

    Fri25.9.2617:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Francesco Corsi

    Passacaglia

    Passacaglia© Matteo de Fina

    Passacaglia is a duet that dwells into the tension between violence and spectacle, constraint and pleasure.

    Fri25.9.2618:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Giuli Machado

    CACOS (Shards)

    CACOS (Shards)© Edson Ricardo

    An improvisation game played between sound, silence, movement, and stillness cuts into the present, opening temporal cracks through which other dimensions >

    Fri25.9.2619:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Francesco Corsi

    Passacaglia

    Passacaglia© Matteo de Fina

    Passacaglia is a duet that dwells into the tension between violence and spectacle, constraint and pleasure.

    Mon28.9.2618:00
    ThesisUferstudios
    BA Graduate Works

    Johann Eggebrecht

    Until It's Something Else

    Until It's Something Else© Lorenzo Scutti

    It lives between routine and ritual, energetic labour and dance language, joy and bad trip — the tender discipline of repeating one thing until it stops >