Banda Agita

Listen to me! I have something to say! I want to tell you! I want us to confide in each other our desires, dreams and fears. For too long we have been isolated from each other and have become strangers. But let it not remain so. Let us break the silence. We invite you to get to know us! Definitely better than any dating app.

Artistic director: Oana Cîrpanu
Premiere: April 2022

A moving urban exploration.

“I wonder how birds see the sky. Do they always see it in grey? Do they always have this filter in front of their eyes? I see a little more blue. Maybe I am just imagining it. Maybe I can see through a filter”

This city is no longer the same. We have to re-appropriate the city, encounter it, feel it, hear it and see it. Together we explore our neighbourhoods and become a city ourselves!

Enough of being separated, alone and isolated! We can only find our way around and to each other together.

In mutual instructions, we take a new look at the city and how we want to move around and meet. What connects us? What do we have enough of and where are we enough?

Come with us on this journey and discover yourself and your city!

Premiere: 18 June 2021 at GRIPS Podewil

Further dates: 19 June 2021 at GRIPS Podewil

By and with: Maurice Bartz, Inessa Fettin-Beganovic, Jonathan Hecker, Fabian Hochheim, Maria Liebl, Maximilian Obernauer, Josephina Zarbock

Management, direction, concept: Oana Cîrpanu
Concept, choreography: Christina Wüstenhagen
Video: Andrei Nicolae Bârză
Assistance: Mohammad Saleh
Musical composition: Johannes Welz
Participation costume: Orli Baruch
Technology: Jerry Geiger

Go. Feel. Feel... Yourself.
Closer, why higher. Stop. Look.
Feel yourself. Feel me.
Feel pink. Feel red. Feel roses,
feel the mirror, feel the rain, feel the shards,
feel scars, feel skin.
Feel boundaries, feel closeness, feel rules, break rules.
Feel us.

We sense, feel and touch our environment from birth. Before we can speak, we communicate through touch. Touch means closeness and security, fear and threat, affection and rejection. And then in 2020 Covid-19 suddenly appears and everything is different. We communicate digitally, we keep our distance and wear masks. But there is still the memory of times gone by and the hope that after a moment of paralysis it may be possible to fight your way back into a life with changed rules.

With and by: Inessa Fettin-Beganovic, Jonathan Hecker, Cesary Hensel, Fabian Hochheim, Casper Hottenrott, Luise Kolbinger, Maria Liebl, Maximilian Obernauer, Ben Steppath

Management and direction: Oana Cîrpanu, Sandra Rasch
Choreography: Kaveh Ghaemi
Stage image: Seongji Jang, Tatjana Reeh
Assistance: Josephina Zarbock
Musical composition: Öz Kaveller, Andrey Salomatin
Video and photography: Cristina Amate (Dochkafilms)
Technology: Jerry Geiger

The horizon is wide. There is no beginning and no end. Mountains, shooting stars, sunsets – we decide what we want to see. Nothing is asked of us. We do nothing. We don’t want anything. We take our time.

The youth club Banda Agita asks about the time: What impact it has on your life. What expectations do you associate with her. And how they want to deal with it.
A theatre evening emerges from the stories of the actors, which approaches the invisible phenomenon of time and tells of what is directly connected with it – life.

Premiere: 26 April 2019, GRIPS Podewil

Further dates (resumption):

30 August 2019, 19:30 GRIPS Podewil
31 August 2019, 19:30 GRIPS Podewil
1 September 2019, 18:00 GRIPS Podewil

By and with: Emilie Berger, Finn Bielenberg, Josif Dumitru, Tillmann Drews, Magdalena Ebel, Zari Eder, Federica Garcin, Luisa Kerkhey, Ilona Liasnikova, Mahtab Rahmani, Andrea Salvat, Sascha Schicht

Management and direction: Oana Cîrpanu
Dramaturgy: Franziska Seeberg
Stage image: Tatjana Reeh
Musical direction: Bettina Koch
Musical composition: Öz Kaveller
Assistance: Charlotte Hillebrecht
Video & photography: Cristina Amate (Dochkafilms)
Technology: Jerry Geiger

“A monster lives in my room, and it is me.”

We all have secrets, we are hiding something. We close the door behind us, slide our diaries under the mattress, try to be as inconspicuous as possible in public. But why? And what if we all let go of shame, shouted out our secrets out loud and let the others get very close to us?

Banda Agita turns the theatre around and brings onto the stage what should actually remain backstage. A scenic research journey between the public, private sphere and intimacy. The search for our own shame and the monster in each and every one of us begins in absurd images.

With and by: Jule Budnick, Laurencia Dieck, Leander Dörr, Imke Grünewald Farcia, Daniel Heimendahl, Raman Khatib, Michael Pajuelo, Linda Rohrer, Sascha Schicht, Anne Schmidt, Paul Urner, Nadja Wolff, Marcel Yilmaz, David Zaldivar

Management and direction: Ellen Uhrhan
Dramaturgy: Lasse Scheiba
Musical direction: Bettina Koch
Assistance: Aylin Peters, Giovanni Di Lauro