3 Days to Liberation II

Available here: COMBI PASS SATURDAY AT ROTER SALON: €22 / reduced €12 / valid for both events on Saturday, 13 December: HAPPY BIRTHDAY (performance) at 6:00 p.m. and The Stage as Witness – Artists between Worlds (panel) at 7:30 p.m.

Part of the programme
3 DAYS TO LIBERATION II
(Statement and program)
12–14 December 2025
Conceived & curated by Maryam Palizban
Presented by CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK

Participants: Sahar Rahimi, Sahar Rezaei, Sina Saberi
Moderator: Eva Behrendt

At a time when boundaries are drawn and redrawn throughout the world, and everyday realities are shifting, this panel offers a safe space for an artistic journey between worlds and places. Here, the stage is not a scene, but a shelter: a place for sharing, feeling and reflecting stories, experiences and perspectives. Artists from various disciplines—dance, theater, performance, and writing—will discuss their work and talk about the spaces in-between. Linking personal experience to collective narratives, breaks and continuities become evident, and we are invited to relate to the tensions of our time. The Stage as Witness pushes the boundaries to translate between different cultures and experiences, and makes us feel the power of joint reflection.

Sahar Rahimi is a director, performance artist, author and curator. Born in 1981 in Tehran, she lives and works in Germany. She has a degree from Gießen‘s Insitute of Applied Theatre Studies and is co-founder of the performance group Monster Truck with national and international productions at Sophiensäle Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Munich Kammerspiele Schauspielhaus Bochum, among many more. Monster Truck was awarded the Tabori Prize in 2019. As a solo director she has worked with Theater Basel, Theater im Bahnhof Graz, Schauspielhaus Vienna and Munich Kammerspiele. She is currently artistic director of the Brecht Festival Augsburg, in team with Mark Schröppel.

Sahar Rezaei is a theater and film director, author, and former director of Schauspiel am Anhaltischen Theater Dessau. Having studied engineering at the Polytechnic University of Tehran, she went on to study directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. Rezaei explores motifs of everyday life, spatial structure and bodies in their relation to current political issues in her interdisciplinary work as a writer, photographer and director. She had projects presented at Frankfurt‘s Mousonturm, Schauspiel Hannover, Staatstheater Marburg, Studio NAXOS, Divadlo Archa in Prague and at Divadlo Flora in Olomouc.

Sina Saberi is a choreographer, performer and cultural manager. Born in Tehran in 1988, he now lives and works in Germany. At first studying literature, language and communication, he changed to performative arts in 2012. He is the founder of Kakeshan, an indeterminate space for choreographic creation and dance outreach. His practice and research revolve around the intersection of individual and collective experience, and the art form of dance as an alternate state of being. Since 2014, he has been active in the dance scene of Iran, and in the diaspora. His works have been shown at many international festivals and in residencies, including Rencontres Choregraphiques in Paris, Hellerau in Dresden, BIPOD in Beirut, Tanzfabrik Berlin, K3 Tanzplan Hamburg, Charleroi Danse Brussels, and euro-scene Leipzig.

Eva Behrendt is an acclaimed theater critic. She will discuss practices and positions with the artist on the panel, to sound out the potential of on-stage performances to narrate stories, open up new spaces and widen perspectives, asking how these formats can be especially effective within a framework such as 3 Days to Liberation.

Panel language: English