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• Performance/Theater/ Tanz + Audience Feedback Format
• Open general rehearsal

• Do., 19.03.2026, 19:00

Audience Feedback Session following the open general rehearsal 'WATCHER ON THE HILLS'

How much existential exposure can a public encounter bear? 'Watcher on the hills' turns those present into watchers, witnessing a body and a psyche unfolding in real time inside the vast architecture of Uferstudios.

• 1photo ©Despina Kapetanaki. Between resistance, exhaustion and the force that keeps pulling.
• 2 Johanna Hasse, Regisseurin, Dramaturgin

Using only body, breath, voice and the raw architecture of the studio the work strips away theatrical illusion and invites a rare experience of presence. Thus is not a story or a representation. It is an act of existential exposure. The Open rehearsal is followed by a feedback format where the audience is invited to share their perception and impression.

About the venue

Uferstudios

The Uferstudios for contemporary dance are a landmarked area in Berlin-Wedding that currently brings together a total of six partners from Berlin's independent dance scene. Thanks to the ada Studio & Bühne für zeitgenössischen Tanz, the Inter-University Dance Centre (HZT) Berlin, Tanzbuero Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, the artist collective PSR, as well as the operating company Uferstudios GmbH, the location has matured into a centre for dance since its formation in 2010. Through the diversity of its partners, the Uferstudios bring a wide range of artistic processes and aesthetics of contemporary dance into the public eye.
 

About the piece

Watcher on the hills

'Watcher on the hills' is a solo performance that refuses spectacle. Inside the vast industrial space of Uferstudios, a single body becomes the landscape of an inner world we rarely allow ourselves to witness. Those present are not placed outside the action, but become watchers – moving freely through the space as the performer's body passes through gravity, tenderness, exhaustion, uncertainty, ache and collapse. What unfolds is not a story but a condition: the effort to remain structured while something inside is silently giving way. 

About the Artist

Despina Kapetanaki

Born in Athens, based in Berlin, Despina Kapetanaki works in the fields of theatre,
dance and performance. Her work is defined by an especially dynamic and expressive body language. She develops her pieces following experimental and research-based working processes. The focus of her practice lies on the body not only as a moving entity, but most importantly, as a manifestation of our deeper beliefs and emotions. In this sense she is researching a "poetic"body, one that expresses modern culture and its contemporary sociopolitical issues. She has a special interest in the performer-audience relationship.