Shifting Architectures at fabrik Potsdam: Performance between Body, Sound, and Architecture
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An evening rethinking space, body, and sound
With Shifting Architectures, fabrik Potsdam opens the season on September 12, 2026, at 18:00 in Schiffbauergasse. The site-specific performance understands architecture not as a rigid shell, but as a living structure that continuously reshapes itself through movement, improvisation, and live music in the moment. Admission is free.
When space itself becomes choreography
The production emerges from a four-day workshop with choreographer Roberta Ricci and musician Gábor Hartyáni. At its core is the practice of Instant Composition: an open, highly sensitive work with presence, reaction, and mutual listening. This creates an aesthetic experience where space is not merely played but becomes an experience of relationship.
This form of performance art connects to contemporary dance and sound practices that understand the body as a resonance space. Movements, pauses, and acoustic impulses coalesce into a vibrant exhibition atmosphere of the present – precise, fleeting, and immediate.
Roberta Ricci and Gábor Hartyáni: Working with Attention
The artistic signature of this production lies in the reduction to the essentials: perception, timing, sense of space. It is precisely within this that the strength of the performance unfolds. Those who engage in this moving contemplation of the work experience how choreography, music, and architecture interlink and form a performative sculpture of time and relationship.
For culturally interested visitors, this offers a demanding art experience that does not rely on spectacular effects but on subtlety, tension, and the power of the unpredictable. The stage becomes a space for thought, and the audience becomes part of a changing composition.
Why it is worth attending
Shifting Architectures combines artistic research, dance, and live music with a clear educational impulse: perceiving means co-creating. It is precisely in this that the special quality of this event lies for all who appreciate contemporary performance art and cultural education. The free accessibility further enhances the appeal of the evening.
Those who experience the season opening live will encounter a performance that sets architecture, body, and sound in an intense relationship. A visit to fabrik Potsdam promises no ready-made answer, but an open, sensuous, and insightful evening full of artistic energy.
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