CEASEFIRE NOW
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, October 26 2024, 8.30pm – Ha'this (Day 7: Black Light)
doing a ritual performance for Ming Poon's eight-day-oeuvre Stardust at Uferstudio 1, Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin Wedding
"I am a female dervish and whirling is my practice. Dervishes whirl in communion with the universe. They whirl to let their ego die and dissolve into emptiness. Stripping down layers of identity to arrive at the truth, and therewith one’s own true self. This is then the death of any relation to and separation from an “other”. It is being no-thing and everything at the same time – a medium for transformation.
With Ha’this I invite you to a ritual in which I aim to fully lose control of myself. The title is a wordplay of “coming into this”: into this reality, this space, this time. The here and now. The present moment. It is about breaking down my habits, behaviours and desires to open up to the pure essence of “me”. Who is this “me”, when my ego disappears?
Through the repetitive movement of whirling, I intend to create a shared experience, where we can come together to reflect on our true selves. Ha’this is a reminder that we all originated from the same source and that with our death, we return to it."
✴︎ Dedicated to all sentient beings. ✴︎
Berlin Whirling Workshops and Sessions at Studio2, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin:
Sunday, Nov 24 2024, 1-3pm introduction workshop, 3-6pm whirling session
Sunday, Dec 15 2024, 4-8pm (honoring Rumi and the Dervishes with poetry, zhikrs and live music)
Introduction: 55€, red. 35€
Session: regular: 30€, reduced: 20€
Full workshop: 75€, red. 45€
Reduced price for students, teens, unemployed and elderly people
Donation-based for Palestinians and for those directly affected by the ongoing war crimes in Gaza & Lebanon
PAST EVENTS:
Sunday, Sept 22 2024, Berlin Whirling at Faiths In Tune Festival Dresden (workshop and performance with Wassim Mukdad)
Sat/Sun, Aug 10/11, Berlin Whirling Sufi-Weekend with Lisa Stertz and Rasha Vrede
Friday, July 19 2024, 9pm: Performing White
whirling dance performance during the opening of "Lucid City" at Zemin Art Space, Urbanstraße 3, 10961 Berlin
Wednesdays, 5-8pm (Feb 28, Mar 6, Mar 13) – 🪐🌪️ Whirling Dance Workshop🌪️🪐 at Sensible.Earth, Goa/India
Feb 15 - March 15 2024 – Artist Residency at HH Art Spaces Foundation, Goa/India
Project residency: "I listen to you" (2024) – Presentation/Performance on March 16 2024
Saturday, February 10th 2024 – performing for Tania Bruguera, 9-10am at Hamburger Bahnhof
Tania Bruguera's piece " Donde tus ideas se convierten en acciones civicas – Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions" was a 100-hours reading. People read from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism", one hour each person. My turn was on Saturday morning. I read in German from 9-10am.
Sunday, February 11th 2024 – Berlin Whirling Workshop, 2-7pm at Studio2, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Pay-what-you-can: 90-50€
Registration via payment to PayPal or email to mail@lisastertz.com (for bank account details)
Sunday, November 19th, 2-7pm, Berlin Whirling Workshop for Peace and Humanness
This BERLIN WHIRLING WORKSHOP was dedicated to the world we live in. It was dedicated to all humans we have recently lost, all humans that are in direct pain and grief of these losses and all humans that ceaselessly put their heart, sweat and effort into stopping the crimes we are witnessing. – It was dedicated to us humans. All earnings went to humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Saturday, November 18th, Dervish Whirling Workshop, Wolfson College, Cambridge
Friday, October 6th, 6-9pm, Berlin Whirling Session
Sunday, September 3rd, 2-6pm – BUTOH DERVISH together with Ylva Falk
Sat+Sun, July 29/30 2023, 12-6pm – Berlin Whirling Weekend at Studio2, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Thu-Sun, May 4-7 2023 – workshop and performance during MERASA – a 72h Wellness Experience
organised by Fa'Pawaka together with Potatohead, Bali/Indonesia
Friday, May 5, 1h workshop: The Body WithIn
Saturday, May 6, 1h workshop: Butoh Dervish w Ylva Falk
Sunday, May 7, closing ceremony and performance
Sat, April 8 2023, 4-8pm – Dervish Whirling Workshop at Sana, Monteiro Waddo Anjuna, Bardez, Goa
An introductory workshop into the world of whirling with an opening circle, learning the basics, implementing the basics, short break, physical warmup, whirling session, landing meditation and feedback.
Location (Posa Mindful Gastronomy)
Fri/Sat, March 17/18 2023, "11:11" – durational performance in the frame of ANTIBODIES, Fort Aguada, Goa/India
HH Art Spaces, Goa and The Tetley, Leeds are thrilled to invite you to 'Antibodies', a collaborative Live Art programme supported by British Council’s India/UK Together Season of Culture Grant.
The list of artists include; Amol K. Patil, Afrah Shafiq, Bandu Manamperi, Hetain Patel, Jana Prepeluh, Joydeb Roaza, Lisa Stertz, Muhammad Shahab Sahel, Nicola Singh, Raisa Kabir, Violeta Lisboa
Performances will happen through the night for 24 hours.
Older activities can be found in my archive.
All performances are linked and listed under PERFORMANCES.