Voices Berlin Festival 2025

Voices Berlin Festival is an international platform for contemporary performing arts and music, founded in 2023 and based in Berlin.

Programme Highlights

music

Balkan Affairs

with Neue Vocalsolisten

Seven performative works for voices and electronics: the vocal ensemble and seven composers from the states of former Yugoslavia explore the effects of the Balkan wars, offering their individual, empathetic artistic perspectives on this turbulent period.

performance

ABC of Exclamations

by Vera Burlak and Kastuś Žybul

An artistic interpretation of the Belarusian alphabet by poet Vera Burlak and her son Kastuś Zhybul, who lives with autism.

theater

Lupa, Ivaškevičius, Plotnikov, Durnenkov, Haratischwili

Author readings at Voices Berlin 2025

Five renowned authors from different countries and generations read their new works.

dance

Run Time Anomaly

by Simon Steen-Andersen feat. Youth Dance Company Sasha Waltz & Guests

World premiere of a site-specific performance at the Akademie der Künste, featuring the Youth Dance Company Sasha Waltz & Guests. Commissioned and produced by Voices Berlin Festival.

theater

Travelers

by Árpád Schilling

A poetic performance by renowned Hungarian director Árpád Schilling: the story of the Lithuanian Youth Theatre across generations, created through improvisations based on singing.