ROOTED
LAKE Studios Berlin
& Acker Stadt Palast
Pitch & Perform 2025:
Workshops, Performance
& Aperitivo
July 1st-7th 2025
pitch&perform
about
Rooted:
Pitch & Perform
Pitch & Perform is a week-long,
multi-venue festival produced and curated by Apricot Productions, taking place
July 1–7, 2025, in Berlin.
Blending workshops, webinars, performative pitches, cabaret, and international guest performances, Pitch & Perform offers a vibrant meeting point for artists at different stages of their process, while connecting Berlin’s thriving local scene with international guest artists.
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Schedule:
Workshops,
Pitches,
Performance
& Aperitivo
Meet the Artists
& Workshop Leads
Venue
Information
Schedule
1st-7th of July
Online workshops start the week off with practical information on production, creative marketing & speaking up in a work place. All free of cost. Hop offline with us after and join us for our opening party at the Wein Salon, Cabaret Night: Theme- Summer Fruit.
The week carries on with movement & voice workshops and performative pitches at LAKE Studios Berlin. All of which, are pay what you can, cash at the door or PayPal QR codes will be available to directly pay the artists participating. The events in the afternoon lead us into 2 triple bills for a ticketed evening of guest performances on the 4th & 5th at LAKE. During our Aperitif breaks, we've got curated wines by Maria, from Zest Wines (a new partnship we can't wait to share at Rooted!)
With a party to follow at Saligari the Bar.
Our last performance day takes place with a triple bill at Acker Stadt Palast on Monday the 7th of July. Featuring a Berlin world premiere from Pamela Pietro & Jesse Zaritt (most recently at LaMaMa, NYC) a world premiere by costume designer, choreographer & performer, Venera Kazarova and to end the evening, a ritual-performance/video installation, meant to showcase the body and surrender the soul by duo ATŌMI & Anthony Nakhlé.
Get to know the full program by scrolling below!
Ticketing is available via this page.
Venue location & access information can be found at the bottom of this page!
1.7
Online Workshop- Free Event!
Topics: Marketing & Production Hacks: a guide
Led by: Apricot Productions
Cost: Free, sign up below
Location: The Internet
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-2pm CET
2.7
Welcome Party- Cabaret Night
4.7
Trial Voice Workshop / Performative Pitches- Pay what you can
A trial workshop is a teaching method in progress, a performative pitch is a new idea- each pitch ends in a 15 minute collective discussion. The pitches do not require registration.
Trial Voice Workshop: Becoming a Pamina
Themes: Embodied Voice. Somatic Exploration. Feminist Opera Practice
Artist: Katsia Kaya
Time: 3pm-4:30pm
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: Alexandra 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- Aperitif with Zest Wines
8:30pm-9:15pm- AdH(A)rA by Rhiannon Morgan
9:15pm-10pm- After Chill- Outdoor Bar
Learn more about the performance with the ticket link below. *This Triple Bill is paired with a unique experience attached. Maria, founder of Zest Wines joins us for a tasting and sharing of stories. Curated wines by female wine producers based in Europe!
5.7
Trial Movement Workshop & Performative Pitches- Pay what you can
A trial workshop is a teaching method in progress, a performative pitch is a new idea- each pitch ends in a 15 minute collective discussion. The pitches do not require registration.
Trial Movement Workshop: gentle hardcore
Themes: Moving like Nature. Expressive Body. Hot, Somatic and Queer.
Artist: Evelin Uus
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
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: 7:30pm
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
BREAK- Open Bar, Outside
8:20pm-8:40pm- Love at First Flight by Ruthie 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 with guest DJ s.t3v
Learn more about the performance with the ticket link below.
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
BREAK
8:20pm- 8:40pm- When Kissing a Flower by Venera Kazarova with performers Sofya Shaikut, Liza Polyakova, MariyaBeatty
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 & below!
Participating Artists
Guest Artists
International Guest Artists & Local Collaborators based in Berlin in order of appearance in program
Pamela Pietro
everything I thought I knew but...
LAKE Studios Berlin, 4.7 @ 7pm
Quick Blurb: Trauma doesn't invite itself into our neuromuscular/neurocellular system but is let in by society. Unwanted, it disrupts the natural cadence of a living body, an embodied practice. Trauma lives in the limbic system and the body remembers what happens to it over the course of a lifetime. My choreographic choices grapple with the act of what is remembered versus what is unknown. When investigating a body (my body) inside choreography, I see not only a moving form, but the human power and its force. These investigations result in physical manifestations of qualitative research bound inside a path, a story, a way of acknowledging the remembering.
premiere Spring 2018 @ 92nd St Y, New York, NY
PC: still from film
GREYZONE
BLOOM
LAKE Studios Berlin, 4.7 @ 7:15pm
Quick Blurb: BLOOM explores the disruption of codified “femininity” and to arrive at freer embodiments of the female form. Incorporating playful contact into formal movement rituals, the women expand the bounds of their relationships and discover authentic physicalities.
premiere November 2018, at The Dance Gallery Festival at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, in NYC
AMPLITUDE
LAKE Studios Berlin, 5.7 @ 7:30pm
Quick Blurb: Combines movement and visual design into a collage of human experience. Performers shift through states of isolation, effort, intimacy, connection and power, suggesting a mystery that is just on the edge of being revealed. Through a process of deconstructing and reprocessing the groups collective movement histories, the dancers’ vulnerability is exposed, inviting audiences to see their own humanity reflected back to them.
A version of the work premiered at Mark Morris Dance Center on September 20th and 21st 2024. An excerpt of the dance was performed in October 2023 at the 14th St Y Theater as part of Pioneers Go East Collective’s Crossroad Series.
tickets 5.07 + more about GREYZONE
Rhiannon Morgan
AdH(A)rA
LAKE Studios Berlin, 4.7 @ 8:30pm
Quick Blurb: A meditative journey that follows one woman — and through her, all women — as she confronts grief, loss, and the search for wholeness. Rooted in Buddhist philosophy, it explores how we construct the self through intimate, emotional, and sensorial processes, moving through chaos, mourning, and acceptance toward renewal. Adhara invites the audience into a raw space where mourning becomes not an end, but a beginning — a place to feel, to share, to expand, and to live again.
premiere on the 3rd, November 2020 Trois C-L, Luxembourg
Supported by Kultur LX
PC: still from Clementine
Pamela Pietro & Jesse Zaritt
dance for no ending
AckerStadt Palast 7.7 @ 8pm
Quick Blurb: This duet is an experiment in accumulation and dissolution; we are interested in the making and un-making of ourselves. Through incessant dancing, we attempt to exhaustively examine, negotiate, inflate and undermine the behaviors, movement vocabularies and patterns of effort that produce what we think of as ourselves. We are interested in activating unstable modes of figuration, ecstatically unsettled bodies.
premiere April 2025 @ LaMaMa, NYC
tickets + about Pamela + about Jesse
PC Steven Pisano
Venera Kazarova
When Kissing a Flower
AckerStadt Palast 7.7 @ 8:30pm
Quick Blurb: With performers: Sofya Shaikut, Liza Polyakova, Mariya Beatty. This piece is a metaphor for fragile life — life that blooms, trembles, and fades all too quickly. The act of kissing a flower becomes a symbol of intimacy with something fleeting: a tender gesture toward beauty that cannot last. Venera Kazarova creates work that often begins with visual research, and is then translated into embodied actions and performative scores.
world premiere at Rooted
PC: Venera Kazarova
ATÕMI & Anthony Nakhlé
جوهر Jawhar
AckerStadt Palast 7.7 @ 9pm
Quick Blurb: A ritual-performance/video installation, meant to showcase the body and surrender the soul. The first instalment of the project is an interactive performance with space and audience, conceptualized and designed by the synergic work of Anthony Nakhlé [performer, choreographer] and Lorenzo Setti (ATŌMI) [music producer, sound artist].
premiere September 2022 @ Delphi Theater, Berlin
PC: Michele Iaccarino- Courtesy Marea Art Project
Workshop Leads & Performative Pitchers
A chance to try something new with some supportive listeners around.
These events are pay what you can for the public.
Cash at the door or via
a QR paypal code
for the artist.
Katsia Kaya
Becoming a Pamina- Voice & Movement Trial Workshop
LAKE Studios Berlin 4.7 @ 3pm-4:30pm
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.
Pay what you can but sign up:
registration + about Katsia
PC: Anna Malgina
Evgenia Chetvertkova
THE ENTRANCE- Performative Pitch
LAKE Studios Berlin, 4.7 @ 5pm-5:30pm
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.
no tickets- come as you are, pay what you can
Alexandra Doyle & Madeline Robertson w. Nikita Proshkin
one scene for Existence - Performative Pitch
LAKE Studios Berlin, 4.7 @ 5:45pm-6:15pm
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.
no tickets- come as you are, pay what you can
Evelin Uus
gentle hardcore - Movement Trial Workshop
LAKE Studios Berlin 5.7 @ 4pm-5:30pm
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.
Pay what you can but sign up:
PC Johanna Reinvald / Müürileht
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Carro Sharkey
Cruising Utopia- A performance for Parks and Public Toilets- Performative Pitch
LAKE Studios Berlin 5.7 @ 6pm-6:30pm
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.
no tickets- come as you are, pay what you can + about Carro
PC Katie Day Weisberger
Pamela Moraga
Gig (working title) - Performative Pitch
LAKE Studios Berlin 5.7 @ 6:30pm-7pm
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
no tickets- come as you are, pay what you can
PC: Gastao Finadeiro
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
Lake Studios Berlin, 5.7 @ 8:20pm a part of the Triple Bill
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.
Marilyn Nova White
You’re Hired – Don't dream it, BE it!
Lake Studios Berlin, 5.7 @ 8:40pm a part of the Triple Bill
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.
tickets - performance info + more about Marilyn
PC Nora Peisger
Webinar Leads
Topics to build sustainable careers in the Arts.
Free of Cost, register via the link below!
Speaking Up
Speaking Up
Led by: OFEN-CoArts
Online, 2.7 @ 11am-1pm CET
Quick blurb: This workshop gives dancers practical tools to navigate power dynamics, use their voice effectively, and advocate for themselves in professional settings. Through real-world strategies and reflective exercises, Speaking Up supports dancers in building healthier, more accountable workplaces — and in taking greater ownership of their careers and wellbeing.
Led by:
OFEN Co-Arts is a platform for advocacy and the promotion of safer, ethical, and sustainable practices in dance. Founded in 2012 by Gala Moody and Michael Carter, both contemporary dancers, and the authors of The Dancer's Handbook; A practical guide to reimagining dance, body, and society.
Production & PR: a guide
Two part webinar-
Creative PR: a guide
Led by: Angela Fegers
Online, 1.07 @ 11am-12:30pm
Quick Blurb: Create the perfect marketing campaign that will not end with you in a burnout. Find the joy in marketing, look for the 'negative space' on a graphic design, like you would in a studio. Learn strategies for spreading the word, grassroots style, digitally and through other unique forms of guerrilla marketing. Observe your statistics after the show, sometimes- it's just not the right day to have an event... learn how to analyse data to present your work on the best day & time.
registration + more about Angela
The Art of Production
Led by: Nadine Freisleben
Online, 1.07 @ 12:30pm-2pm
Tips on how to stay in budget. Budget Control Queen, Nadine Freisleben leads a webinar on how to stay in budget and make space for the unknown- unforeseen costs, and stragetize ways to come out of them if they arise. Learn how much you should be getting paid for your projects and how much you should be paying your artists, as well. Plus tips on organzing production & budget timelines and documents.
registration + more about Nadine
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.
Thanks to our supporters & friends
With gracious support from Pamela Pietro's 2024-2025 Dean's Faculty Research Grant
Awarded by Allyson Green,
New York University,
Tisch School of the Arts
KULTUR LX
with gracious support on behalf of Rhiannon Morgan
LAKE Studios Berlin
Sincerely grateful to
be hosted at LAKE
Saligari
Forever our favorite cocktail hangout spot
The Wein Salon
Forever our favorite queer living room wine spot
Acker Stadt Palast
Thank you for hosting us