“This is an urgent gathering, conducted in-the-round, and centered on a question: What revolutionary gesture can possibly be left after 1989, in a city like Berlin, in a country like Germany, in a place like Europe?” says nora chipaumire.

Drawing from the lived history of toi-toi protest dancing among the Shona people, this event is a gathering in which the weaponization of bodies for the purposes of political resistance can be laid bare and critically addressed. What is it to be implacable in a politics alive with presence? How can you overcome a state of precarity while living in and fighting from an historically othered body? In times that feel – and perhaps are – apocalyptic, how can we develop an ethical and moral responsibility for our bodies?

The event is made possible by the thoughts and bodies of chipaumire, dancer and musician SoKo Jerahuni, and critical dance studies students at Freie Universität. It is presented by the Akademie der Künste, DAAD, and Freie Universität Berlin and will take place in English.