Unrenewable Energies
Festival announcement video in English spoken language
Festival announcement video in DGS (German Sign Language)
What is it about?
Unrenewable Energies is a dance festival that centers time, energy, and resources from disabled, Deaf, and chronically ill perspectives.
Navigating limited resources, unpredictable influences, and interdependencies – as well as practicing mutual care and collective time-taking – are crip expertises. Unrenewable Energies celebrates these as critical practices that resonate far beyond disability contexts.
Curated by Making a Difference, the festival asks: What happens when artistic processes are radically shaped by the needs of disabled, Deaf, and chronically ill artists – and their audiences?
Temporality
Over the course of four weeks, the festival stretches what is often squeezed into weekend marathons: Unrenewable Energies features two productions, two residencies, four practice sharings, three bed-side performances, peer-to-peer mentoring, exchange formats – and a final party. Boom! The festival also includes a symposium, which will take place in cooperation with the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin, at HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Apart from the Symposium, the program takes place consciously during the week – keeping weekends free for rest and recovery.
Unrenewable Energies challenges what is often taken for granted and creates space for crip perspectives and new experiences of shared time.
Credits
The festival is part of the project Making a Difference.
Network Making a Difference
Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
With the kind support of the Performing Arts Program of LAFT Berlin.