C O R D I L L E R A Raum für Körper und Utopien

05/10/2026

📢 Open call 🫀 RELICARIOS ∫ STERBEN NOCH NICHT GANZ
For the evening performance RELICARIOS ∫ STERBEN NOCH NICHT GANZ, we are seeking works that explore the body as a site of passage, remembrance and transformation.
Inspired by rituals, altars, relics and commemorative practices such as Día de los Muertos/Allerseelen the programme brings together selected pieces that approach memory, mourning, transmutation and disembodiment from diverse perspectives. Together, they will form a temporary constellation of bodies, gestures and memories.
🎯 Selected works should:
-Have a duration of between 20 and 30 minutes.
-Be available for public presentation at CORDILLERA Berlin on 31st of October 2026
-Relate to the themes of transformation, ritual, memory, mourning or altered states of embodiment.
- Simple technical set up
📝 If you are interested in presenting your work, please email us at [email protected] until Sunday, 11th of October 2026, including: The title and duration of your work, a short description, links to documentation, if available, and short biography.
We welcome works in different stages of development, as well as established pieces that can enter into dialogue with the programme’s themes. Participation is based on artistic exchange and collaboration. Further details regarding the schedule, technical conditions and presentation format will be discussed with the selected artists.
We are looking forward to your proposal!🍂

29/09/2026

🎯 Next Saturday, we are excited to present the 🦚 OPEN DOORS and sharings from our great constellation of Artists in Residence .

📆 Saturday 3.10. ⏳ 19:00
With works from Veronica Parlagreco, Chloé Swoiskin, Taiga Trigo & Valentina Menz Nash.
🎟️ Free entrance
On this evening, we gather to experience four works that invite us to inhabit a shared intimate territory. Each research will present its own aesthetics, yet all enter into dialogue with questions around gestures, movements and rhythms that persist within us; memory and ancestry beyond borders, soil and cultural traces; family and society as the transmission of patterns, systems and connectivity; and the illusion of separation, narrated from the perspective of water.

May this evening be a space to feel how, by communing through our senses, we can collectively create a common ground for our shared subjects and our common future.
>>> PROGRAM

22/09/2026

🎯 COMMUNITY DAYS • Saturdays 26.9.
⏳10:00–11:30
🎟️ Free entry
📍
🧩 A community encounter to focus on the body and movement practice.
Open to all ages!
🌿 On Community Days, professional artists invite children, families, amateurs, local residents and the general public to take part in free workshops and movement proposals for all ages.
These days are designed to encourage the community of Treptow Köpenick, Schöneweide and beyond, to delight in different experiences of movement and the body, while also offering artists a space to experiment with new artistic and pedagogical approaches, developed in connection with the local audience.
Don’t miss our second gathering!
🔹WITHIN SYSTEMS • Conducted by Chloé Swoiskin

This community dance practice invites us to explore the systems we inhabit, both within our bodies and in the world around us. How do we function as individuals within larger systems such as families, communities and society? How do these systems shape us, and how do we shape them? Drawing from my artistic research during my residency at CORDILLERA, we will investigate these questions through movement scores and improvisational exercises. Beginning with individual experience and expanding into collective exploration, we will create a temporary system together in the room, noticing patterns of differentiation and interconnectivity. No previous dance experience is necessary. Just bring your curiosity!

🔴 If you want to attend, simply arrive on the day of the workshop, 10 minutes before the start time; bring comfortable clothing so you can move freely, and socks to wear on the dance floor.
We look forward to seeing you 🌪️
➡️ More Info: https://diekg.org/community-day/

🎯 Upcoming COMMUNITY DAYS
🔹10.10. • Being water - sharing a practice of immersion • Taiga Trigo
🔹17.10 • Afro Latin Grooves • Valentina Menz Nash

🎯Artist in Residence
Chloe Swoiskin

🧩 COMMUNITY DAYS
📆 Saturday 26.9. ⏳10:00 - 11:30
🎟️ Free entrance 🦄 Open to all levels!

🔹WITHIN SYSTEMS • Conducted by Chloé Swoiskin

This community dance practice invites us to explore the systems we inhabit, both within our bodies and in the world around us. How do we function as individuals within larger systems such as families, communities and society? How do these systems shape us, and how do we shape them? Drawing from my artistic research during my residency at CORDILLERA, we will investigate these questions through movement scores and improvisational exercises. Beginning with individual experience and expanding into collective exploration, we will create a temporary system together in the room, noticing patterns of differentiation and interconnectivity. No previous dance experience is necessary. Just bring your curiosity!

--
Save the date!!!!

🦚 OPEN DOORS - Artist in Residence
📆 Saturday 3.10.
⏳ 19:00 .
🎟️ Free entrance
With works from Veronica Parlagreco, Chloé Swoiskin, Taiga Trigo & Valentina Menz Nash.
----
Communit days - Programm
🔹19.6. • Between from and memory • Veronica Parlagreco •
🔹26.9. • Within systems • Chloé Swoiskin
🔹10.10. • No titel • Taiga Trigo
🔹17.10 • Afro Latin Grooves • Valentina Menz Nash
Chloe Swoiskin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin, originally from San Francisco. She holds degrees in Dance and Biopsychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where her choreographic work exploring the embodied sense of self earned the Corwin Award for Excellence in Choreography. She has toured throughout the United States and Europe with the UCSB Dance Company, Selah Dance Collective, and Santa Barbara Dance Theater and has collaborated with international artists across dance, music, and interdisciplinary performance. In Berlin, she has performed at festivals and venues including Against the Grain, Sasha Waltz Open Studio Stage, and Pierre Boulez Saal. Chloe is passionate about creating supportive spaces for curiosity and self-expression. She approaches movement as a way of deepening awareness and discovering new possibilities within ourselves and with others.

16/09/2026

🎯 COMMUNITY DAYS
Saturdays 19.9., 26.9., 10.10. and 17.10.
⏳10:00–11:30
🎟️ Free entry
📍
🧩 A community encounter to focus on the body and movement practice.
Open to all ages!
🌿 On Community Days, professional artists invite children, families, amateurs, local residents and the general public to take part in free workshops and movement proposals for all ages.
These days are designed to encourage the community of Treptow Köpenick, Schöneweide and beyond, to delight in different experiences of movement and the body, while also offering artists a space to experiment with new artistic and pedagogical approaches, developed in connection with the local audience.
Community Days also facilitate access to artistic creation through their diverse programme, linking neighbourhood residents to other activities at CORDILLERA Berlin.
Don’t miss our first gathering!
🔹19.6. • Between form and memory • Conducted by Veronica Parlagreco

This movement laboratory invites participants into an open exploration of gesture as a trace of memory and a tool for transformation. Rather than imposing rigid shapes, the session approaches the body through play, guided improvisation, and instant composition. Together, we will observe everyday gestures, deconstructing and rearranging them to unlock fresh possibilities for physical inquiry and discover raw material for character creation.
🔴 If you want to attend, simply arrive on the day of the workshop, 10 minutes before the start time; bring comfortable clothing so you can move freely, and socks to wear on the dance floor.

We look forward to seeing you 🌪️
➡️ More Info: https://diekg.org/community-day/
Upcoming „Community days“
🔹26.9. • Within systems • Chloé Swoiskin
🔹10.10. • Being water - sharing a practice of immersion • Taiga Trigo
🔹17.10 • Afro Latin Grooves • Valentina Menz Nash
---

🎯 COMMUNITY DAYS
Samstage 19.9., 26.9., 10.10. und 17.10.
10:00–11:30 Uhr
🎟️ Eintritt frei

📍
Wilhelminenhofstrasse 68a
12459 Berlin
🧩 Ein Community-Treffen, um den Fokus auf Körper und Bewegungs zu legen.

Offen für alle Altersgruppen!
🌿 An den Community Days laden professionelle Künstler:innen Kinder, Familien, Amateur:innen, lokale Bewohner:innen und die allgemeine Öffentlichkeit ein, an kostenlosen Workshops und Bewegungsangeboten für alle Altersgruppen teilzunehmen.

Diese Tage sind darauf ausgerichtet, die Gemeinschaft von Treptow-Köpenick und Schöneweide dazu einzuladen, sich an verschiedenen Erfahrungen von Bewegung und Körper zu erfreuen, und bieten gleichzeitig Künstler:innen einen Raum, um neue künstlerische und pädagogische Ansätze zu erproben, die in Verbindung mit dem lokalen Publikum entwickelt werden.

Community Days erleichtern zudem den Zugang zur künstlerischen Schöpfung durch ihr vielfältiges Programm und verknüpfen die Bewohner:innen des Viertels mit weiteren Aktivitäten von CORDILLERA Berlin.

Verpasse nicht unser erstes Treffen!
-

15/09/2026

🏵️ We are extremely happy to welcome our 🎯Express Artists in Residence: Veronica Parlagreco, Chloé Swoiskin, Taiga Trigo & Valentina Menz Nash.
This September and October, they’ll be at to deepen their research and then open up their processes to our community. You’re invited to be part of it!
❤️‍🩹RESISTING WITH BEAUTY!
is an independent space that receives no municipal funding for its maintenance and survives solely through the commitment of its artists. In these times of cuts and precarity, we have decided to share, expand and distribute what we have. We are deeply pleased to offer these - Express Artist in residencies- to artists in Berlin as a way of contributing to individual and collective processes that are valuable and necessary in our city – especially in these times of social and political change and transformation.
During the residency, the artists will not only dedicate time to researching their artistic proposals, but will also share the results of their process in a public sharing on the 3rd of October, and offer their artistic practice to the community on the frame of our - Community Days, over four Saturdays between September and October.
📌Save the dates and stay tuned for more updates! Don’t miss the chance to join us and, together with this great constellation of Artists in Residence, step into to practice resistance with us – through beauty, solidarity and the need to preserve spaces for play, freedom, expression and community encounter.
,

🦚 OPEN DOORS
📆 Saturday 3.10.
⏳ 19:00
With works from Veronica Parlagreco, Chloé Swoiskin, Taiga Trigo & Valentina Menz Nash.
🎟️ Free entrance
🧩 COMMUNITY DAYS
📆 Saturdays, 19.6., 26.9., 10.10. & 17.10.
⏳10:00 - 11:30
🎟️ Free entrance
🦄 Open to all levels!
🔹19.6. • Between from and memory • Veronica Parlagreco •
🔹26.9. • Within systems • Chloé Swoiskin
🔹10.10. • No titel • Taiga Trigo
🔹17.10 • Afro Latin Grooves • Valentina Menz Nash
www.diekg.org

03/09/2026

📡

𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐀 — 𝐑𝐚𝐮𝐦 𝐟ü𝐫 𝐊ö𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐧: 𝟒 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬-𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐧

𝗕𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗳𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁: 04.09.2026

Die Konditionen:
1. Jede der vier Künstler:innen erhält 16 Stunden kostenlose Studiozeit bei CORDILLERA im September.
2. Von den Künstler:innen wird erwartet, dass sie am 3. Oktober an einem Open Sharing zur öffentlichen Präsentation teilnehmen. Der Eintritt ist für das Publikum kostenfrei.
3. Jede Künstlerin/jeder Künstler wird gebeten, der lokalen Gemeinschaft von Oberschöneweide, wo sich CORDILLERA befindet, eine 1,5-stündige Bewegungs-, Körper- oder Tanzpraxis kostenlos anzubieten. Die Praxis sollte an einem Wochenende im September oder Oktober stattfinden.

Wenn es interessant klingt, schreibt uns bis Freitag, den 04.09. per E-Mail: [email protected] mit einer kurzen Bio und einer kurzen Beschreibung des Projekts, an dem ihr arbeiten möchtet.

Weitere Infos gibt es hier:
▶https://www.tanzbuero-berlin.de/artikel/cordillera-raum-fuer-koerper-und-utopien-4-express-residenzen/

03/09/2026

🎡 Workshop “ PUKLLAY • A Space for Play, Transformation and Creation” with Ximena Ameri
📆 Sunday, September 27, 2026
⏳ 3–6 pm •
🎟️ TIickets: €15 / €20 / €25
>> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pukllay-performance-workshop-mit-ximena-ameri-tickets-1999489466820?aff=oddtdtcreator

👄Languages: DE/EN/ES
🦙PUKLLAY • A Space for Play, Transformation and Creation
The workshop with Ximena Ameri explores alternative forms of presence and scenic composition based on the Andean concept of Pukllay, a Quechua term associated with play, festivity, transformation and, above all, collective encounter.

Through an engagement with Andean festival practices, we explore new relationships between body, memory, territory and imagination. Body memories and objects, as well as elements of Physical Theatre, improvisation and choreography, become tools for this exploration. The aim is to playfully expand the possibilities of scenic presence, explore compositional tools from decolonial perspectives, and allow new scenic narratives to emerge through play.
🪃 Open to dancers, actors, performers, body researchers and performing artists of all levels. The workshop is organised by the German-Peruvian artist collective CHICHA EXPRESS as part of the FriendsEvents series, in collaboration with CORDILLERA.
👣 XIMENA AMERI
Is a multidisciplinary performance artist whose work moves between dance theatre, performance and body-based artistic research. Her artistic practice explores migration, identity and the body as an archive of memory.
For almost two decades, she has developed an international practice between Europe and Latin America, shaped by collaborations with renowned artists and groups such as Yuyachkani, Íntegro, Alfredo Zinola and Samir Akika, as well as by her studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts, the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Brussels and the Ruhr University Bochum.
📨 CONTACT
[email protected]
+491799919543
chichaexpress.com

----

🎡 Workshop „ PUKLLAY - Ein Raum für Spiel, Transformation und Kreation“ mit Ximena Ameri�
📆Sonntag, 27.9.26
⏳15-18 Uhr
🎟️ TIickets: €15 / €20 / €25
>> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pukllay-performance-workshop-mit-ximena-ameri-tickets-1999489466820?aff=oddtdtcreator

👄Sprachen: DE/EN/ES
�.
🦙PUKLLAY • Ein Raum für Spiel, Transformation und Kreation

Der Workshop mit Ximena Ameri erforscht alternative Formen von Präsenz und szenischer Komposition ausgehend vom andinen Konzept des Pukllay, einem Quechua-Begriff, der mit Spiel, Fest, Transformation und vor allem kollektiver Begegnung verbunden ist.

Durch die Auseinandersetzung mit andinen Festpraktiken erkunden wir neue Beziehungen zwischen Körper, Erinnerung, Territorium und Imagination. Dabei kommen Körpererinnerungen und Objekte, sowie Elemente aus Physical Theatre, Improvisation und Choreografie zum Einsatz. Dabei geht es darum, die Möglichkeiten szenischer Präsenz spielerisch zu erweitern, kompositorische Werkzeuge aus dekolonialen Perspektiven zu erforschen und neue szenische Narrative durch das Spiel entstehen zu lassen.

🪃 Offen für Tänzerinnen, Schauspielerinnen, Performerinnen, Körperforscherinnen und Bühnenkünstler*innen aller Levels. Der Workshop wird organisiert vom deutsch-peruanischen Künstlerkollektiv CHICHA EXPRESS als Teil der Reihe „FriendsEvents”, in Zusammenarbeit mit CORDILLERA.
👣 XIMENA AMERI
ist multidisziplinäre Performancekünstlerin, deren Arbeit sich zwischen Tanztheater, Performance und körperbasierter künstlerischer Forschung bewegt. Ihre künstlerische Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Migration, Identität und dem Körper als Archiv von Erinnerung. Seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten entwickelt sie ihre internationale Praxis zwischen Europa und Lateinamerika geprägt von der Zusammenarbeit mit renommierten Künstler*innen und Gruppen wie Yuyachkani, Íntegro, Alfredo Zinola und Samir Akika und ihrer Ausbildung an der Folkwang Universität der Künste, der Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, am Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Brüssel, sowie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
📨KONTAKT
[email protected]
+491799919543
chichaexpress.com
Info: https://diekg.org/dynamic-set-ups/

02/09/2026

📢 CORDILLERA — Raum für Körper und Utopien is seeking 4 artists for an - Express Artist in Residence this SEPTEMBER!
🎟️Free of charge
🎯The deal:

1. Each of the four artists receives 16 hours of free studio time at CORDILLERA during September.

2. Artists are expected to take part in an Open Sharing for public presentation on the 3rd of October. Admission is free for the public.

3. Each artist is asked to offer a 1.5-hour movement, body, or dance practice, free of charge, to the local community of Oberschöneweide, where CORDILLERA is located. The practice should take place on a weekend in September or October.

💥If it sound interesting, write us until Friday 04.09. via email: [email protected]
with a short bio and short description about the project that you want to work on.

📩 Join our new channel to stay updated on news, projects, and upcoming activities.
https://chat.whatsapp.com/DA2SwMpQ87hGhOtdXW0cSv
—-
Photo: © Yozy Zhang at ORDINARY research project by Tomoya Kawamura with Atsushi Takahashi.

03/07/2026

🚩P L U R A L FEST • Living territories expanding through our bodies beyond borders / Verkörperte Territorien
📆Sa. 04.07. • 12:00 - 22:00
*Schöneweider Brückenfest
🎟️Freier Eintritt
P L U R A L FEST , a celebration for all to fully embrace the beautiful diversity that lives among us!
Whether you have crossed oceans or boundaries, we all carry a unique trace within us. Our territory is not limited to the lines on a map. It is an embodied territory that extends with us: it lives in our bodies, resonates in our traditions, is shaped by our memories of the landscape, and comes alive in every single way we share with others. We are a living, moving territory that takes root and blooms with strength exactly where we stand.
Come and join us to celebrate collectively and enjoy a special cultural program that highlights multiple perspectives, interwoven journeys, stories, and the diverse influences that shape who we are and link us as a human community.
->. Info: https://diekg.org/im-schein-der-jaguar-sonne/ >> PROGRAM

🚩P L U R A L FEST • Living territories expanding through our bodies beyond borders / Verkörperte Territorien
🎟️Freier Eintritt
📆Sa. 04.07. • 12:00 - 22:00 *Schöneweider Brückenfest
🔸INTI YAKU • Sound of Ecuador
19:00

Inti Yaku stammt aus Quechua: Inti bedeutet Sonne, Yaku Wasser. Zwischen diesen beiden Kräften entsteht der Klang der Band – warm, beweglich, voller Kontraste.
Das Ensemble verbindet traditionelle ecuadorianische Musik mit einer heutigen Berliner Perspektive. Pasillo, Sanjuanito, Albazo, Pasacalle, Tonada und Yaraví klingen bei Inti Yaku nicht wie Folklore aus dem Museum, sondern wie lebendige Musik zwischen Erinnerung, Migration und Begegnung.
Gitarren, Gesang, Rondador, Streichinstrumente und Kontrabass schaffen einen Sound, in dem andine Melancholie, lateinamerikanische Leichtigkeit und urbane Gegenwart zusammenfinden. Inti Yaku ist Musik zwischen Sonne und Wasser – poetisch, rhythmisch und verbindend.

Aude Boucher (Frankreich) | erste Gitarre
Fernando Velasco (Ecuador) | Gitarre, Gesang
Washo Valenzuela (Ecuador) | Gitarre, Rondador
David Quisaguano (Ecuador) | Gitarre, Bratsche
Sebastián Bermeo (Ecuador) | Kontrabass

•

Inti Yaku brings the colors, rhythms, and stories of Ecuador to Berlin. The name comes from Quechua: Inti means sun, Yaku means water. Between these two forces, the band’s sound emerges—warm, fluid, and full of contrasts.The ensemble blends traditional Ecuadorian music with a contemporary Berlin perspective. Pasillo, Sanjuanito, Albazo, Pasacalle, Tonada, and Yaraví are not presented as museum folklore, but as living musical traditions shaped by memory, migration, and cultural encounter. Guitars, vocals, rondador, string instruments, and double bass create a soundscape where Andean melancholy, Latin American lightness, and urban modernity come together. Inti Yaku is music between sun and water—poetic, rhythmic, and deeply connecting.
Aude Boucher (France) | first guitar
Fernando Velasco (Ecuador) | guitar, vocals
Washo Valenzuela (Ecuador) | guitar, rondador
David Quisaguano (Ecuador) | guitar, viola
Sebastián Bermeo (Ecuador) | double bass