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Something Great is a non-profit organisation and arts centre that champions international contemporary performing arts – at Schloss Mentin, Germany & on tour around the world 🦋 For more information, visit our website somethinggreat.de

On Tour 🦋 𝑶𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 by 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒊 📅 22, 23, 24 October 2025 📍 Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse 👁 part of Festi...
21/10/2025

On Tour 🦋 𝑶𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 by 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒊
📅 22, 23, 24 October 2025
📍 Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse
👁 part of Festival d'Automne à Paris

A solo figure stands at the edge of the stage, shifting silently from one pose to the next. Strength and vulnerability merge as Hassabi reveals what it means to be uncovered, to be on stage.
With her signature stillness, slowness, and precision, she invites us to witness images as they unfold — iconic and everyday, fragile and powerful.

On Stage is one of Maria Hassabi ‘s most radical and personal works: a feminist reflection and a piercing insight into her artistic trajectory.

📸 On Stage by Maria Hassabi. Performance at Kunstenfestivaldesarts , May 2024. Courtesy of the artist. © Photos: Beniamin Boar

World premiere 🔥☄️ Repertório N.1’ by Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira.🗓 Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 October 2025, 7pm📍 Porch...
17/10/2025

World premiere 🔥☄️ Repertório N.1’ by Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira.

🗓 Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 October 2025, 7pm
📍 Porchester Hall, London

Presented by Serpentine Galleries & Dance Umbrella

Repertório N.1 is the final piece of a trilogy by Brazilian artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira. Drawing on postcolonial, gender and race studies, the Repertório trilogy, a long-term performance project, interrogates the mechanisms of brutality and attempts to dismantle them. Through a vocabulary of poses, gestures and collective actions, Repertório N.1 creates an experimental space where the body becomes a site of protection, carrying histories, pleasures and vulnerabilities into the performance space.

Repertório N.1 is co-commissioned by Serpentine Galleries and Dance Umbrella (UK), Something Great (Germany), Wiener Festwochen (Austria), Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Switzerland), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER(Belgium) and DDD - Festival Dias da Dança/ Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). The world premiere will take place in London, on the 18 and 19 October 2025 during Frieze Week and as part of Dance Umbrella, before touring internationally in 2026.

🎸 STILL LIVES: BRISBANE 🎸A tribute. A disruption. A knot in time.From 15 October to 9 November 2025, Still Lives by Dani...
07/10/2025

🎸 STILL LIVES: BRISBANE 🎸

A tribute. A disruption. A knot in time.

From 15 October to 9 November 2025, Still Lives by Daniel Kok & Luke George lands in Brisbane, Australia. This new iteration — created specifically for the city and presented in the Turbine Platform of Brisbane Powerhouse as part of Melt Festival dives into Brisbane’s punk and counterculture roots, with a nod to The Saints and their iconic track (I’m) Stranded.

Still Lives is a performance-installation series that captures — literally — significant moments and movements using rope 🧵. Each edition is a durational, site-responsive act of binding cultural objects in place, opening up conversations around local history, political tension, social connection, and personal memory.

Lead artists: Daniel Kok & Luke George
Sound: Nick Roux
Lighting: Katie Sfetkidis
International distribution: Something Great

Photos: Gregory Lorenzutti

Supported by Museum of Brisbane and National Arts Council Singapore.

This week on tour in Italy, Tunisia and Brazil ! 2–3 Oct — Hands Made by Begüm Erciyas at Periferico Festival, Modena, ...
29/09/2025

This week on tour in Italy, Tunisia and Brazil !

2–3 Oct — Hands Made by Begüm Erciyas at Periferico Festival, Modena, Italy🦋
3–4 Oct — Sham3dan الشمعدانby nasa4nasa at Dream City Festival, Tunis, Tunisia 🦋
4–5 Oct — EXÓTICA - On the Brown History of European Dance by Amanda Piña at Bienal SESC de Dança, São Paulo, Brazil 🦋

📸 Slide 1 — Sham3dan الشمعدان by nasa4nasa © Salma Olama
📸 Slide 2 — Hands Made by Begüm Erciyas © Dirk Rose
📸 Slide 3 — EXÓTICA - On the Brown History of European Dance by Amanda Piña © Tammo Walter

🙏L'Art Rue - الشارع فن
🙏 Sesc São Paulo
🙏Periferico Festival

On Tour 🦋 𝑶𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 by 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒊 📅 27 & 28 September 2025 📍 臺北表演藝術中心 Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan A solo fi...
25/09/2025

On Tour 🦋 𝑶𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 by 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒊
📅 27 & 28 September 2025
📍 臺北表演藝術中心 Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan

A solo figure stands at the edge of the stage, shifting silently from one pose to the next. Strength and vulnerability merge as Hassabi reveals what it means to be uncovered, to be on stage.
With her signature stillness, slowness, and precision, she invites us to witness images as they unfold — iconic and everyday, fragile and powerful.

On Stage is one of Maria Hassabi ‘s most radical and personal works: a feminist reflection and a piercing insight into her artistic trajectory.

📸 On Stage by Maria Hassabi. Performance at Kunstenfestivaldesarts , May 2024. Courtesy of the artist. © Photo: Beniamin Boar

Next shows in Paris at Festival d'Automne à Paris on the 22, 23 and 24 October 💙

On Tour 🦋 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓟𝓲𝓮𝓬𝓮𝓼 by 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐦 𝐄𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐲𝐚𝐬September 25 and 26, 2025Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore (SG)Present...
24/09/2025

On Tour 🦋 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓟𝓲𝓮𝓬𝓮𝓼 by 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐦 𝐄𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐲𝐚𝐬
September 25 and 26, 2025
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore (SG)
Presented by Dance Nucleus
as part of the exhibition Vector #6: The Sound of Intimacy

Free of charge, registration is required: https://shorturl.at/vYAvX

In Voicing Pieces by Begüm Erciyas, one's own voice takes center stage. Within the solitude of the sound booth and guided by a basic score, the audience is invited to become a spectator of their own voice. This act of speaking and listening to one's own voice simultaneously is transformed into a theatrical and choreographic experience, reshaped with each individual's interpretation of the score. The voice becomes a platform for action, a spectacle, or a surprise. Is not one's own voice always a little uncanny and foreign? Who is speaking when one's own voice speaks? Rather than simply recognising oneself in a stranger, Voicing Pieces offers a chance to acknowledge the stranger within.

Begüm Erciyas (she/her) was involved in various dance projects in Turkey, while studying molecular biology and genetics in Ankara. Later, she studied choreography and is now living between Berlin and Brussels. Since 2015, Begüm has been developing transdisciplinary formats, which go beyond the frontal black box setting and which invite singular audience members to be alone with the work. The tension between isolation and togetherness is always a central topic. She also engages artistically with new technologies that define and challenge our sense of collectivity. Her work has been presented internationally in performing arts, music and visual arts contexts. Between 2021 and 2026, she is one of the house artists at DeSingel Antwerp.

📸 Begüm Erciyas - Voicing Pieces © Bea Borgers

✨ SG Radio Show 002 is out now! ✨In this second SG radio show, Rui takes the mic as host. First up: another exclusive DJ...
23/09/2025

✨ SG Radio Show 002 is out now! ✨

In this second SG radio show, Rui takes the mic as host. First up: another exclusive DJ mix from our resident This DJ Is Wonderful. Then, a conversation with Bolivian choreographer Sharon Mercado Nogales, recorded during her residency at the SG Arts Centre in Ruhner Berge this summer. She speaks about Bolivian folklore dances and their ties to land and agriculture, her exploration of Technocumbia , and her work with the collective Moviendo Territorios , whose projects span greenhouses, solidarity, and community care — showing how art connects with everyday struggles and collective futures.

🎧 Listen now 👉 somethinggreat.de

📸 (1): Sharon Mercado Nogales by Inmensidades Fotografia
📸 (2) Sharon Mercado Nogales by Something Great
📸 (3) This DJ is Wonderful
📸 (4-8) Moviendo Territorios

If you’re near Lyon, or attending the La Biennale de Lyon / Danse don’t miss out today and tomorrow Repertório N.2 by Da...
19/09/2025

If you’re near Lyon, or attending the La Biennale de Lyon / Danse don’t miss out today and tomorrow Repertório N.2 by Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira 🔥 in the Panorama – Brasil Agora! programme at the Biennale.

📅 19 Sept, 18:00 & 20 Sept, 16:30
📍 Grand Hôtel-Dieu, Lyon

In this raw, ritualised performance work, movement becomes resistance. Repetition and imitation turn into tools of survival, and the body confronts violence and stigma with disarming honesty.

📸 Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira at the SG Arts Centre / Schloss Mentin, August 2025. Photos (c) Something Great.

Last Saturday was one of those evenings that stay with you. As part of VOR.ORT / Tanz weit draußen, Something Great - Ze...
28/08/2025

Last Saturday was one of those evenings that stay with you. As part of VOR.ORT / Tanz weit draußen, Something Great - Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Darstellende Künste opened the ground floor of Schloss Mentin in Ruhner Berge to present Ewa Dziarnowska’s performance This resting, patience.

The space, the work, the people – everything came together in a way that felt rare and precious.

Thank you to everyone who joined us
– to the artists:
Ewa Dziarnowska
Leah Marojević
Krzysztof Bagiński
Jacqueline Sobiszewski

And to our team and collaborators:
Niki Fischer
Nicole Schuchardt
David Heck
Friedrich Wilhelm Hupe
Milena Gehrt
Felix Franz Vogler
Sarah Al Sayed,
Martha Schmidt
JES - Jochmann Eventservice

Special thanks to:
Johannes von Ehren
André Müller
Harry Weber
Bernd Heusinger
Bülent Cakir
Cornelius Winter
Dorit Genkel
Franziska Stoltze
Christian Mai
Christian Binder
Dörte Wolter
Elisabeth Nehring
Jessica Buchholz
Pam Goroncy

and to all the partners of Tanz weit draußen, the Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien , Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V and the Gemeinde Ruhner Berge

Photos: Ewa Dziarnowska – This resting, patience. Performance at Schloss Mentin, 23 August 2025. Courtesy of Something Great © Gry Björge & Anders Bigum

Artists-in-Residence Portraits — July 2025: Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez After a residency in 2024, Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez...
07/07/2025

Artists-in-Residence Portraits — July 2025: Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez

After a residency in 2024, Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez returns to the SG Arts Centre for a short residency between 1 and 10 July 2025, this time to research her new creation "A Scenario of a System Off" to be premiered in Berlin in December 2025.

Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez is a Mexican choreographer, performer and dancer based in Berlin. Her work as a choreographer blends movement, sound, and visual elements. She graduated from ArTEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands and completed a master’s degree in choreography at HZT Berlin. As a performer, she has worked with various artists including Susanne Kennedy & Markus Selg, associated artists of Something Great.

📸 Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez at Schloss Mentin, July 2025 © Something Great

MARNITZ 🔥 🗓 Am 10. Juli 2025 um 17:30 Uhr wird der Sportplatz in Marnitz zur Tanzfläche — und alle sind herzlich eingela...
29/06/2025

MARNITZ 🔥 🗓 Am 10. Juli 2025 um 17:30 Uhr wird der Sportplatz in Marnitz zur Tanzfläche — und alle sind herzlich eingeladen: von den Jüngsten bis zu den Ältesten, aus Marnitz und den umliegenden Dörfern der Gemeinde Ruhner Berge

Alessandra Defazio leitet einen 40-minütigen Tanzworkshop im Freien, bei dem alle mitmachen können.
Es sind keine Vorkenntnisse nötig — nur ein bisschen Neugier, Lust auf Bewegung und Spaß am gemeinsamen Tanzen.

Der Workshop ist Teil des Sporttags "Marnitz bewegt sich“, organisiert vom SG Marnitz/Suckow e.V. , und findet im Rahmen der 750-Jahr-Feier von Marnitz statt.

Veranstaltet von Something Great - Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Darstellende Künste im Rahmen des bundesweiten Programms Tanz weit draußen – VOR.ORT

👉 Kommt vorbei, bringt eure Nachbar:innen mit – und lasst uns am 10. Juli gemeinsam tanzen!

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Mit VOR.ORT wächst ein neues Format in die Fläche, das die Kunstform Tanz in ländlichen Räumen lebendig und wirksam macht. In Konstellationen aus Orten, Künstler:innen, Expert:innen und Menschen aus der Region entstehen im Jahr 2025 bundesweit sechs Veranstaltungen, die lokale Themen aufgreifen, verhandeln und neue Zukunftsbilder entwerfen.
VOR.ORT verknüpft lokale Initiativen mit überregionalem Austausch – als Impuls für Gemeinschaft, Teilhabe und neue kulturelle Perspektiven vor Ort.

Mit dabei sind: TANZWERK Werder & Ponderosa Stolzenhagen (Brandenburg), Schloss Bröllin & Something Great – Zentrum für zeitgenössische darstellende Künste (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt Ludwigsburg & Szene 2wei Lahr (Baden-Württemberg).

🆓 Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und offen für alle.

Tanz weit draußen wird gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM) über das Programm Verbindungen fördern des Bundesverbands Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (BFDK).

If you’re around Switzerland, don’t miss the international premiere of Sham3dan (Candelabra) by nasa4nasa at Art Basel U...
16/06/2025

If you’re around Switzerland, don’t miss the international premiere of Sham3dan (Candelabra) by nasa4nasa at Art Basel Unlimited 2025 presented by Gypsum Gallery.

This work was initially created during a research residency at Something Great - Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Darstellende Künste in 2023, and we couldn’t be happier to see its international premiere happening at Art Basel 😍

In Sham3dan, the Egyptian duo nasa4nasa – Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma Abdel Salam – present a powerful performance rooted in feminism and beauty as a political force.

Inspired by the traditional Egyptian Shamadan dance, which symbolises spiritual illumination, the piece reimagines its legacy through three layered narrative threads.

Nine dancers, balancing candelabras on their heads, move in solemn, collective harmony – blending 1920s folk traditions with contemporary expression.

The result is a compelling meditation on collective presence, burden, and balance – where synchronised movement becomes a quiet act of resistance.

The performances in Basel are made possible with generous support from Nora Alkholi, Mai Eldib, Goya Gallagher, Hashem Montasser, and Farida Mortada.

Art Basel Unlimited – Booth U62
🗓️ 16–22 June 2025

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
16–18 June | 5 PM
19 June | 8 PM
20 June | 4 PM
21–22 June | 2 PM

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Creation: nasa4nasa (Salma Abdel Salam & Noura Seif Hassanein)

In collaboration with:
Dalia El Abd
Hend El Balouty
Samar Ezzat
Mona Gamil
Moemen Nabil
Nagham Salah
Salma Salem
Shaymaa Shoukry
Hanin Tarek

Music: Ismail Hosny
Candelabras: Ahmed Halolos
Styling: Ahmed Sorur
Tour Manager: Sandra Elgamal

Production: nasa4nasa
Distribution: Something Great
Co-production: Orient Productions & BUDA Arts Centre
With the support of: Something Great / SG Arts Centre, Goethe-Institut Cairo and Moussem

Funded by: AFAC – Arab Fund for Arts and Culture

📸 Premiere of Sham3dan in Cairo in September 2024. Photos by Salma Olama.

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Something Great is an independent organization in Berlin specialized in contemporary performing arts. We represent artists from around the world, helping them to realize ambitious new projects and share their work with audiences across the world. For more information please visit our website somethinggreat.de .