Theatre

LA DAMA DE NAZCA (The lady from Nazca) is a theatre play about German mathematician and archeologist Maria Reiche from Dresden. She investigated the Nazca lines, a group of giant geoglyphs in the Peruvian desert all on her own for decades and finally achieved them to become UNESCO World Heritage Site. Produced in Berlin with artists from Peru the play emphasizes female empowerment and questions the established colonial structures in academic environments. The German embassy in Peru supported the tour through Peru and Argentina in 2019, the Berlin premiere took place in September 2021 and was supported by the Embassy of Peru in Germany.

MACHA! is an interdisciplinary performance using the Marinera, a traditional dance from northern Peru, which emerged in colonial times from Hispanic, indigenous, and African roots, as a starting point to reflect on migration experiences, in order to question binary gender roles and the concept of „masculinity“. It is an authentic and exceptional approach to the reality of intersectional discrimination related to migration. The performance won UDK Interflugs Kulturförderung grant for its premiere in 2021. → Making Of

DIRECTOR: Sonja Ortiz

PERFORMERS: Diego Urbina & Luz Zenaida Hualpa García

CHOREOGRAPY: Luz Zenaida Hualpa García

PRODUCERS: Sonja Ortiz & Diego Urbina

PHOTOGRAPY: M. Rebaza

GIRLS TO POWER! – KARNE KUNST 2020

Interdisciplinary workshop for bilingual girls in Berlin funded by Deutsche Telekom Stiftung. The objective is to reinforce the concepts of female leadership and empowerment through technology and art. → Karne Kunst 

THEATER STRAHL 2017-2018

The piece and programming developed by STRAHL are intended for audiences ages 12 and up and provide an access point to theatre for first-timers. Young people are included in the play selection and development. The realities of their lives are explored on stage in a wide variety of aesthetic forms. As an invited teacher I participated in interdisciplinary encounters with refugee and non-refugee teenagers. → Theater Strahl

THEATERGRUPPE PLAYBACK BERLIN 2013-2018

Grimme-Award-winning PlayBack Berlin e.V. did interactive theater for young people of all educational levels. With our ideas, we offered young people a secure platform to talk about current topics related to mobbing and cyber-mobbing that were difficult for them to communicate. → Grimme Preis