{"id":152762,"date":"2025-09-30T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event-period&p=152762"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:00:37","slug":"transkontinentale-2025","status":"publish","type":"event-period","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/laufzeitangebot\/performance-en\/transkontinentale-2025-152762\/","title":{"rendered":"Transkontinentale 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America: the international dance theatre and performance festival brings together guest performances from four continents on the theme of family.<\/p>\n

In \u2018My body, my archive\u2019, Congolese choreographer and dancer Faustin Linyekula sets out in search of the women in his family.<\/p>\n

Brazilian Tetembua Dandara invites the audience to celebrate with her, her mother, her sister, her niece and her grandmother \u2013 with moqueca and cacha\u00e7a, music and stories: “En tenho uma hist\u00f3ria que se parece com a minha”.<\/p>\n

Also from Brazil is Cris Moreira with her lecture performance \u2018Quadra\u2019 16 about families that will never exist after miscarriage or abortion.<\/p>\n

In \u2018SoftMachine: The Return\u2019, Choy Ka Fai from Singapore asks two dancers from his artistic family of choice, with whom he started his professional life over ten years ago: \u2018How can we grow old together, think and play together?\u2019<\/p>\n

Joel Bray from Australia involves the audience in his search for his indigenous father in \u2018Daddy\u2019.<\/p>\n

In \u2018Kizazi \/ Womb,\u2019 St\u00e9phanie Mwamba from the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo describes the female body as an oppressed territory, a combat zone.<\/p>\n

In his interactive performance, Nitish Jain tells the story of the Jacobin cuckoo, a migratory bird eagerly awaited in India as a harbinger of the monsoon season, which starts a family by destroying the eggs of another family.<\/p>\n

In the exhibition at the Ethnological Collection, Logan February embarks on a poetic search for her Yoruba ancestors.<\/p>\n

South African author and director Koleka Putuma invites infants up to 12 months old and their parents to her theatre tent with \u2018Magnet Theatre’s Scoop\u2019.<\/p>\n

All guest performances are accompanied by encounters and discussions with the artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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