Two dancers wake up in a world of gymnastics benches. They begin to explore new spaces, together and on their own, strangers to each other and yet also close, face to face: BETWEEN SPACES – BETWEEN FACES. The search for a meaning in their everyday madness between loneliness and togetherness drives them on again and again, but their questions are only answered with ever new questions. So they finally leave behind what they once were, strip off their shells and throw them away, forgetting their own expectations and those of the others. They no longer play by rules that are not their own. And in the end, they smash their old world, and use the debris to build a path into something new.
To develop BETWEEN SPACES – BETWEEN FACES, the Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. worked with the choreographer Nikoleta Koutitsa who was educated at the National School of Dance in Athens and at DANCE START UP in Bologna. She has worked with the Hellenic Dance Company in New York and with Emanuel Gat at the 2016 Venice Biennale, among others. In 2017, she founded the KN Dance Group with Karolina Theleriti, whose choreographic works and video dance films were presented at festivals in Greece and abroad. Nikoleta Koutitsa has lived in Berlin since 2019, where she is regularly involved in LUNA PARK’s productions and educational projects in addition to her own artistic work as a dance artist.
Cast and production crew
Concept, choreography and set design: Nikoleta Koutitsa
Artistic direction and advise: Kosmas Kosmopoulos
Performance: Nikoleta Koutitsa und Davide Lorenzi (Caspar Sebastian Stuart Ilschner)
Assistance: Caspar Sebastian Stuart Ilschner
Original Music Composition: Orfeus Grammatikopoulos
Technical direction and lighting design: Andreas Harder, Eduard Mont de Palol
Text and dramaturgical advice: Kai Pichmann
Production management and communication: Fee Josten, Carmen Maria Jentzsch
Public Relations: Nora Gores
Photography and video documentation: Tilemachos Manos, Giovanni Lo Curto
Notice
The performance is suitable for everyone aged four and over.
Duration: about 60 minutes
Performances in Athens in October 2025 (as part of the International Exchange Program „How to dance in times of crisis?“)
Thursday, 23.10.2025, 9:00 PM
Friday, 24.10.2025, 9:00 PM
Industrial Park PLYFA, Koritsas 39, Athens, Greece
_ Performances in Berlin in July 2025
Wednesday, 02 July 2025, 10:30 AM
Thursday, 03 July 2025, 10:30 AM (Followed by a dance and theatre education workshop for young people in cooperation with Theaterscoutings Berlin)
Saturday, 05 July 2025, 7:00 PM
Sunday, 06 July 2025, 3:00 PM (Family-friendly interactive performance)
Uferstudios (Studio 14), Badstraße 41a, 13357 Berlin
Tickets
10 € bzw. 5 € (ermäßigt) demnächst bei RESERVIX.
_ Guest Performance in Sofia (as part of the International Theatre Festival „ALTER EGO“ 2024)
Thursday, 24.10.2024, 7:00 pm
Theatre-Laboratory „Alma Alter“, Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard 15, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
_ Performances in Berlin
Thursday, 08.02.2024, 10:30 am (premiere)
Friday, 09.02.2024, 10:30 am
Saturday, 10.02.2024, 7 pm
Sunday, 11.02.2024, 5 pm
Uferstudios (Studio 14), Badstraße 41a, 13357 Berlin
Production and funding
BETWEEN SPACES – BETWEEN FACES is a production of Initiative LUNA PARK e.V., Nikoleta Koutitsa and Kosmas Kosmopoulos in cooperation with the Gesundbrunnen Primary School, supported in the frame of the artist residency program “tanz(t)räume” (dance rooms/ dreams) funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund (DANCE PACT Local-Regional-National) and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The performances on July 2nd, 3rd, and 6th, 2025 will take place as part of the project “TANZformen,” funded by the Berlin Project Fund for Arts Education. The tour through Berlin school gyms will begin in September 2025 in the district of Reinickendorf and is funded as part of the Berlin support program for performing arts for young audiences (KiA program).
LUNA PARK, founded in 2002 as an initiative of independent artists, has been realizing contemporary dance productions with performances in Germany and abroad, diverse extracurricular artistic education projects for children, teenagers and young adults and international exchange and encounter programmes for young dance professionals and dance education specialists for over 20 years. Locally, LUNA PARK is primarily active in Berlin-Wedding. In 2019, LUNA PARK institutionalized itself at Gesundbrunnen Primary School as the non-profit association Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. in order to open up the school as a cultural, meeting and production space for contemporary dance. The “tanz(t)räume” project, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, plays a special role in the realization of this project, with which the Initiative LUNA PARK has been offering young dance professionals the opportunity to develop and present their own performative projects as part of an artist residency since 2022. BETWEEN SPACES – BETWEEN FACES was created in this context.
