Panel, dance workshop, party
Shaping Dance Floors
With Sarah Farina, Larisa Kingston Mann, Peeps, Phatstoki, Eugenia Seriakov, moderated by Samira Hamid Sharifu
In English with simultaneous translation into German sign language
7.30 pm Admission
8 pm Panel with Larisa Kingston Mann, Phatstoki, Eugenia Seriakov and Peeps, moderated by Samira Hamid Sharifu
10 pm Dance workshop with Peeps
10.30 pm DJ sets by Phatstoki and Sarah Farina
12 midnight End
What forms of resistance emerge on the dance floor? Can raving combine pleasure with political activism? What unites dance floors worldwide, and what distinguishes them in their social and cultural relevance?
Even if its consumption increasingly takes place online, music still stands for an immediate and deeply communal experience. In a club culture characterized by escapism and profit logic, however, the significance of the dance floor as a political place is being lost from view. In urban centers around the world, actors are working to defend and repeatedly reimagine this space. At Shaping Dance Floors, some of them come together for a conversation with the audience.
Producer and organizer Phatstoki, DJ and radio host Eugenia Seriakov from the Berlin collective Sound System Culture, scholar Larisa Kingston Mann aka DJ Ripley and choreographer Peeps talk with Samira Hamid Sharifu about their experiences in underground club culture and the possibilities of making a difference in their communities. Afterwards, there will be a house dance workshop with Peeps and DJ sets by Phatstoki and Sarah Farina.
In collaboration with Refuge Worldwide
Curated and conceived by Transmission (Sarah Farina and Kerstin Meißner)