Dance Performance at the Tränenpalast
9 November 2026 | 7:00 PM
As part of Berlin Freedom Week
BEYOND LINES is a dance performance by LUNA PARK, created in collaboration with the Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears)—one of Berlin’s most significant sites of remembrance. The performance explores the experience of crossing borders: the movements of departure, waiting, fear, and hope; leaving behind home, language, and the familiar; and finding the courage to step into the unknown.
Set within the Tränenpalast—a place marked by farewell, control, and transition—the performance creates choreographic images of resistance, loss, and transformation. Bodies search for paths through obstacles, hesitate, support one another, fall, rise again, and discover new connections.
The performance invites audiences to experience the Tränenpalast both as a place of remembrance and as a space for new encounters. It asks what borders people have had to overcome—then and now—and what movements emerge when we find the courage to cross them.
Performance Times
- 6:00 PM (Doors open: 5:45 PM)
- 7:00 PM (Doors open: 6:45 PM)
- 8:00 PM (Doors open: 7:45 PM)
Registration (available approximately five weeks before the event) at:
www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance
BEYOND LINES is a joint project of the Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Stiftung Haus der Geschichte) at the Tränenpalast and the LUNA PARK Initiative, presented as part of this year’s Berlin Freedom Week.
Since 2003, LUNA PARK has combined professional dance production with sociocultural practice. Its work develops choreographic architectures in which bodies, space, and social relationships are continuously renegotiated. Together with people of different generations and cultural backgrounds, the team creates spaces for encounter, participation, and social dialogue.
The Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) served as one of the main border crossing points between East and West Berlin from 1962 to 1989. Today, it stands as an important symbol of Germany’s division and commemorates the overcoming of the SED dictatorship, as well as the struggle for freedom and democracy. Together with the Museum in der Kulturbrauerei, it is part of the Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Foundation’s mission is to present Germany’s contemporary history since 1945 and to maintain a comprehensive collection documenting this period. Admission to all exhibitions is free of charge.