ROOTED
Lake Studios Berlin
& Acker Stadt Palast
Pitch & Perform 2025:
Workshops, Performance
& Aperitivo
July 1st-7th 2025
pitch&perform
about
Rooted:
Pitch & Perform
A week of workshops, performances, and aperitivo celebrating the beauty of the
"in-between" — those work-in-progress moments from your diary to the community.
Join us this July for a week of interaction, where local Berliners and international Artists come together to share space, ideas, and inspiration. From movement and marketing workshops to raw performances and real conversations and even some cabaret moments —
come as you are and
join us for Rooted:
Pitch & Perform
pitch&perform
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Schedule:
Workshops,
Pitches,
Performance
& Aperitivo
Meet the Artists
& Workshop Leads
Venue
Information
Schedule
Workshops take place online and in real life at Lake Studios Berlin. Performances take place at Lake Studios Berlin & Acker Stadt Palast.
Some events are free while the main performances are ticketed. Proceeds go towards the production costs of this festival and towards the artists. We are currently an unfunded entity but produce this event on behalf of our artistic community.
Interested in volunteering or getting involved? We could always use a helping hand. Shoot us an email at info@apricot-productions.com
1.7
Online Workshop- Free Event!
Topics:Marketing & Production Hacks
Led by: Apricot Productions
Cost: Free, sign up below
Part One: How to sell out a show without selling your Soul: a guide
Led by: Angela Fegers
Time: 11am-12:30pm CET
Part Two: The Art of Budgeting & Production
Led by: Nadine Freisleben
Time: 12:30pm-1pm
4.7
Performative Pitches- Free Events!
Come as you are when you please, no registration required! Each pitch ends with a 15 minute group discussion. Learn more about the pitches below.
Performative Pitch Title: THE ENTRANCE
Themes: Play. Believe. Dare. Interactive
Artist: Evgenia Chetvertkova
Time: 5pm-5:30pm
Performative Pitch Title: one scene for Existence
Themes: Hypnotic. Visual. Elemental
Artist: Alex Doyle, Madeline Robertson with Nikita Proshkin
Time: 5:45pm-6:15pm
BREAK- The triple bill begins at 7pm, enjoy some drinks at Lake's outside bar, bring a snack or catch a swim in Lake Müggelsee ten minutes walking from the venue!
4.7
Triple Bill- Ticketed Event
Location: Lake Studios Berlin
Themes: Deconstruction, Renaissance, The Passing of Time, Agism, 'Historical'
Start Time: 7pm
Cost: 15 reg/10 red- or pay what you can at the door- fees go to the artists.
Program Info:
7pm-7:15pm- everything I thought I knew but……by Pamela Pietro
7:15pm-7:30pm- 'BLOOM' by GREYZONE
7:40pm- 8:30pm- BREAK- Open Bar, Outside
8:30pm-9:15pm- 'Adhara' by Rhiannon Morgen
9:15pm-10pm- After Chill- Outdoor Bar
Learn more about the performance with the ticket link below.
5.7
Trial Voice/ Movement Workshop & Performative Pitches- Free Events!
Come as you are when you please, no registration required! Each pitch ends with a 15 minute group discussion. Learn more about the pitches & trial workshop with the link below.
Trial Workshop:'gentle hardcore'
Themes: Somatic. Hot. Queer
Artist: Evelin Us
Time: 2:30pm-4pm
Trial Workshop: 'Becoming a Pamina'
Themes: Embodied Voice. Somatic Exploration. Feminist Opera Practice
Artist: Katsia Kaya
Time: 4:15pm-5:45pm
Performative Pitch: Cruising Utopia- A performance for Parks and Public Toilets
Themes: Queer. Immersive. Site-Specific. Sensual
Artist: Carro Sharkey
Time: 6pm-6:30pm
Performative Pitch: Gig (working title)
Themes: Economy of dance. Dance Labor. Money and Dance
Artist: Pamela Moraga
Time: 6:30pm-7pm
BREAK- The triple bill begins at 7:30pm, enjoy some drinks at Lake's outside bar, bring a snack or catch a swim in Lake Müggelsee ten minutes walking from the venue!
5.7
Triple Bill-Ticketed Event
Location: Lake Studios Berlin
Themes: Visceral, Threshold, Collage, Drag, Absurd, Drag-Disruption, Work-Fantasy, Hearfelt
Start Time: 7pm
Cost: 10 reg/5 red- or pay what you can at the door- fees go to artists + production costs
Program Info:
7:30pm- 8pm- 'AMPLITUDE'-GREYZONE
8pm-8:20pm BREAK- Open Bar, Outside
8:20pm-8:40pm- 'Love at First Flight' by Ruthi Scarpino
8:40pm-9pm- 'You're Hired-Don't Dream It- BE IT'
by Marilyn Nova White
Shimmy on down to Ostkreuz with us after for a party at Saligari the Bar- Simplonstr. 23- it's most likely on your way home!
Artist info & piece info in the ticket link!
7.7
Triple Bill- Ticketed Event
Location: Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
Themes: Contemporary Dance, Rage, Multi-Disciplinary, Mature, Intimate
Start Time: 8pm
Cost: 17 reg/12 red
Program Info:
8pm-8:30pm- 'Dance For No Ending' by Pamela Pietro & Jesse Zaritt
8:20pm- 8:40pm- 'When Kissing a Flower' by Venera Kazarova with performers Sofya Shaikut, Liza Polyakova, Mariya
Beatty
BREAK
9pm-9:30pm- 'Jawhar جوهر' by ATÕMI & Anthony Nakhlé - video + performance
Tickets for this event are available on the AckerStadt Palast website. Artist info + piece info via Ticket link!
Participating Artists
Guest Artists
International Guest Artists & Local Collaborators based in Berlin in order of appearance in program
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Pamela Pietro
Everything I thought I knew but...
Lake Studios Berlin, 4.7 @ 7pm
Premiered 92nd St Y Spring 2018 New York, NY
PC: still from film
GREYZONE
BLOOM (4.7) & AMPLITUDE (5.7)
LAKEStudios Berlin
Premiered at The Dance Gallery Festival at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, November 2018 in NYC
more about GREYZONE
PC: Maria Baranova
Rhiannon Morgan
Adhara
LAKEStudios Berlin, 4.7 @ 7pm
Premiere on the 3rd, November 2020 Trois C-L, Luxembourg
Supported by Kultur LX
more about Rhiannon
PC: still from Clementine
Pamela Pietro & Jesse Zaritt
dance for no ending
AckerStadt Palast 7.7 @ 8pm
premiere April 2025 @ LaMaMa, NYC
PC Steven Pisano
tickets + more info via Acker Site
PC Steven Pisano
Venera Kazarova
When Kissing a Flower
AckerStadt Palast 7.7 @ 8pm
world premiere collaboration at Rooted
PC: still from film
ATÕMI & Anthony Nakhlé
جوهر Jawhar
AckerStadt Palast 7.7 @ 8pm
premiere September 2022 @ Delphi Theater, Berlin
PC: Michele Iaccarino
Workshop Leads & Performative Pitchers
A chance to try something new with some supportive listeners around.
Evgenia Chetvertkova
THE ENTRANCE
Quick blurb: At the center is a “device” that looks like a Bluetooth speaker, but instead of playing music, it broadcasts a person’s inner thoughts out loud. I’ll connect it to myself, so at some point, the pitch will be “taken over” by the other voices in my head.
Lake Studios Berlin, 4.7
5pm-5:30pm
Alex Doyle
& Madeline Robertson
one scene for Existence
Quick blurb: inspired by research into the Tao Te Ching and Taoist thought. “one scene for Existence” will be a structured and adaptive score exploring concepts of Eastern thought in performance as an abstraction of nature and the way of Tao.
Lake Studios Berlin, 4.7
5:45pm-6:15pm
@aplaythingoutofromance & @alexandradoyle
Evelin Uus
gentle hardcore
Quick blurb:A workshop at the intersection of contemporary dance and unconventional movement practices—like striptease, pole dance, and raving—designed to build deep trust and gently expand our comfort zones through playful, sensual, and technically grounded somatic exploration.
Lake Studios Berlin 4.7
2:30pm-4:15pm
Katsia Kaya
Becoming a Pamina
Quick blurb:Invites participants of all backgrounds to explore voice and body through feeling rather than performance, using fragments of Pamina’s arias from The Magic Flute, somatic movement, breath, and vocal play to access strength, softness, and emotional truth before anything becomes polished.
LAKE Studios Berlin 5.7 @ 4:15pm-5:45pm
about Katsia
PC: Anna Malgina
Carro Sharkey
Cruising Utopia- A performance for Parks and Public Toilets
Quick blurb: Cruising Utopia is a site-specific dance theatre work invoking the queer act of “cruising” to be performed in public parks across Europe. In this work cruising becomes both a physical, spiritual, and psychological practice.
LAKE Studios Berlin 5.7 @ 6pm-6:30pm
no tickets- come as you are
PC Katie Day Weisberger
Pamela Moraga
Gig (working title)
Quick blurb: A performance that offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a professional dancer in Berlin. Through a combination of personal storytelling and dynamic choreography, this project explores the ongoing efforts to make a living as a dancer amidst the socio-economic challenges of today's precarious conditions for artists in Berlin
Lake Studios Berlin 5.7 @ 6:30pm-7pm
no tickets come as you are
Works In Progress Guest Artists
Berlin based artists- Works in Progress presenters, in order of appearance of festival schedule above.
Ruthie Scarpino
Love at First Flight
Themes: Absurd, Poetic, Heartfelt
Lake Studios Berlin, 5.7 @ 7:30pm
Triple Bill Tickets
Quick blurb:
Love at First Flight is a physical comedy and object manipulation piece that tells the quirky, heartfelt story of a crow falling in love with a dress. It explores love and lust—entirely through the body, using the expressive language of Corporeal Mime, clown, mask, and object theatre. Corporeal Mime is a very specific movement technique rooted in physical training that creates art through the motion of the body—not pictures or narration on stage.
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Marilyn Nova White
You’re Hired – Don't dream it, BE it!
Themes: Work-Fantasy, Drag Disruption, Becoming
Lake Studios Berlin, 5.7 @ 7:30pm
Triple Bill Tickets
Quick blurb:
A drag-infused, office-scented, pleasure-driven search for possibility – in a world that keeps asking us to perform ourselves to exhaustion.It all starts with a choreography of work: stapling, sorting, nodding, surviving. A Drag King in a sharp power suit enters the stage – crisp collar, clipboard, firm handshake. He’s here to conduct job interviews. With the audience.
PC Nora Peisger
Venue Info
Address: Scharnweberstraße 27, 12587 Berlin
This venue is completey accessible.
Address: Ackerstr 169, 10115 Berlin
This venue is has accessibile theater entrance
but the toilets have one step to enter them
Address: Schreinerstr 59, 10247 Berlin
This venue has one step to enter the main venue space.
Address: Simplonstr. 23, 10247 Berlin
This venue is completely accessibile.
