THIS IS A DANCE PIECE. A love story. A failure. A divorce.
The second solo in a trilogy
Concept, text, performance by Soroa Lear
Performed at Lark Berlin, 12.2025
THIS IS A LOVE STORYTHIS IS A LOVE STORY is a dance-theater piece that tells a story of Cuba and diaspora, family and hauntings, lesbianism, and desire as an outlet for grief. Playing with the boundaries of truth and exaggeration, the piece shares tales of dead grandmothers, crumbling countries, and César: boy, dancer, and the ultimate romantic obsession. With a ridiculous and eros fueled crush as an anchor point, THIS IS A LOVE STORY invites you in for a hilariously heartbreaking ride through longing, grief, and the complexities of Latinidad.
Concept, Choreography, Sound & Performance by Soroa Lear
Dramaturgy by Aru Ray Tormann
Performed at:
BALLHAUS OST as part of “SYMPOSIUM”. 20.05.25
UFERSTUDIOS as part of “GLITTER IN THE CRACKS” 14.08.25
SCHWANKHALLE as part of “OUTNOW! 2026 Festival”, Bremen. 23.05.2026
ATELIER GARDENS as part of “48 STUNDEN NEUKOLLN”, Berlin, 05.06.2026
Pictures by: Sofia Bergmann and Polo Muller
Die Ausflüge des Herrn Brouček
Was one of ten dancers for the Staatsoper Berlin’s production of “Die Ausflüge des Herrn Brouček”, which ran from March to April, 2025
Photo by: Arno Declair
Glitch choirA piece by Deva Schubert
Untitled (the family)An ongoing work by Wojciech Kosma
“Kosma orchestrates The—family relationships within a prescribed space. The people he selects rehearse regularly and rigorously in a defined area where he is always present but which is generally open to visitors…Far beyond the range of ‘performance as performance’, Kosma’s work elucidates the permeable membranes of artistic production and social space. Over time he is establishing a form of community between both realms. The—family is not a direct product of the art world but an outlet from its sphere within the scope of its influence” —FRIEZE
https://www.frieze.com/article/wojciech-kosma
January 2026—ongoing
A piece by Julia Laperriere
Currently in rehearsal for the creation of HOPEPUNK, set to premiere at Radialsystem (Berlin) on 17.07.2026.
June 2026—December 2026
In the third installation of their three-hour durational series, Soroa Lear, Sebastian Abarbanell, and Sara Lu explore their relationships to space, time and each other through the disorderly logics of queerness. Activating the space and blurring the definition of spectator, the work hopes to invite everyone to linger in the unknown, and to begin, again and again, together.
Performed on 17.05.2026 at Uferstudios Berlin
Past Performances:
“The Place Where We Remember” 08.2025, Uferstudios Berlin
“The Place Where We Begin” 05.2025
Concept & Performance by Soroa Lear, Sara Lu & Sebastian Abarbanell
The Place where we've been𝕼𝖚𝖊𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖔 is an experimental performance in the church. It’s queer, POPpie, quirky, witty, and designed to create a sense of community.It reimagines the structure of the Holy Mass, inviting the audience to sing, move, and become part of a search for defyining queer spirituality. Featuring iconic songs by artists like Madonna, Bjork, Britney Spears, and Elton John, it’s a sing-along, laugh-along and maybe cry-along
Performed at Genezarethkirsche 01.06.2026
Upcoming:
23-24.07.2026 at Genezarethkirsche
02.08.2026 at Garbiscz Festival, Poland
This is a dance piece“Glitch” refers to a disruption in the transmission of (digital) information – such as a distorted image or a stuttering video. “Glitch Choir” brings this phenomenon into the analogue realm. At the heart of the performance lies the recomposition of a lament through “glitching” – intentionally induced disruptions…
…performers engage with the collective body of grief by creating a space of intimate multi-resonance. Through vocal distortions, mourning is transformed into a collective glitch. What kind of choir emerges from the dissonance of frequencies?
Performed at:
Berlinische Gallerie, 20.08.2025
Schinkel Pavillon, 26-28.02.2026
Upcoming:
Defect Festial, 7-9.08.2026
Photo by: TBD
Photos by: Victoria Tomaschko and Spryos Rennt
Hopepunk
Queeratorio
Look! lilies, limerence“Look! Lillies, Limerence”, created and performed by Soroa Lear and RAYNE, is a dance-theater piece that delves into the intricacies of romantic entanglements, yearning, and cycles of grief. It’s a duet about anger—about heartache and drama and the ridiculousness of desire. It’s a mirror into the chaos of the self, using a song and a dance to break hearts and make us laugh.
Performed at OHM Berlin as part of SHIFT LAB on 03.10.2024
Photos by: Jacint Halasz
NANA with Sara Lu, Rayne J Raney, Soroa Lear and music by VCO and Julius Gabriel
In the late summer heat, dancers, a saxophonist and an electronic composer will gather and take flight in the garden of TROPEZ, exploring their collective symbiosis and instinctual way of organizing and congregating in community. How can humans from today's (perhaps overly) technologically advanced society still learn from the animalistic ways of tending to their surroundings? What are the repercussions if they continue to ignore their interconnectedness with each other and nature?
August, 2024
sWARMINGA piece by Annalise Van Even
Photos by: Ink Agop
tHE BODY OF NOTHING The Body of Nothing is a constellation of bodies, space and sound. Contemporary dancers move between semi-transparent fabric walls according to a choreography by the artist and to the sound of his alter ego Bas Grossfeldt. The spaces are freely accessible to the audience and the performers move through the audience. The performers recall moving sculptures.
Through shifts in perspectives, proximity and distance, sound and body, an atmospheric space is created in which various systems and networks of collective and individual identities and relationships are established or broken.
Among other things the performance deals with walking as one of the most political movements. It examines how subconscious movements as well as gestures and physical attributions have been shaped. With seven performers, Søren Siebel creates a space of experience that questions one's own or collectively emerging identities and understands them - almost utopian - as something that is in constant adjustment and reorientation.
December 2023, KINDL—Centre for Contemporary Art
A piece by Søren Siebel
Photos by: Clemens Porikys
Insel der orgeln A piece by Cora Frost and friends
The Island of the Organs (Insel der Orgeln) is surrounded by a water. No one can get to the island in a logical way…
This happening of dance, music, performance and installation searches for experienced, repressed and imagined families, for concepts of life and survival. Travelers gather terrible and promising life stories to the polyphony of organs, invoking the healing power of the social family of choice and redefining it in a shared ritual.
Choreography and dance performance by Soroa Lear
Performed at Sophiensaele, February 2023
Photos by: Jackie Baier
Photo by: Wojciech Kosma
Photo by: Pauline Kortmann
Photo by: Studio Bluebarbosa
Photo by: Eden Jetschmann