Adorno
Performance by Alice Ripoll as part of the ‘wielding fissures’ series
Performance Dance
© Renato Mangolin
© Renato Mangolin
Ticket Prices
€18 reduced €14
Combined ticket / Sat 1 Aug
featuring ‘Mille et Une Nuits’ by Sorour Darabi
€28 reduced €20
Ticket Prices
18 Euro reduced 14 Euro
In “Adorno”, the Portuguese word for “jewellery”, “ornament” or “decoration”, Alice Ripoll juxtaposes the age of algorithms with that which makes us most human: ornamental gestures, changeable moods, and spontaneous desires - the apparently trivial embellishments which we all use to construct our own lives. The Berlin premiere of Alice Ripoll’s performance also marks the opening of the new series wielding fissures - carving cracks in the surface of the now in Radialsystem.
On her search for connection in difference, the choreographer explores the question of how to conceptualise a “we”, when no two individuals in our population of 8 million people are identical. The audience is carried by a tempestuous group, moving forwards and backwards in waves like the course of history itself. Scenes unfurl in a dreamlike atmosphere, confronting us with what we think is unique: our memories, our bodies, our affections - our inner tides.
Embodied Practice with Hiltinho Fantástico and Katiany Correia
Thu 30 07 2026 5.30 pm
Admission is free. The number of participants is limited, please register in advance.
Local Hosting with Alice Ripoll
Sun 02 08 2026, following the performance, in English
Co-hosts Prof. Dr. Mariama Diagne (dance scholar), Michelle Moura (choreographer)
Visitor Information
Duration
approx. 55 minutes
Audio description, Saturday 1 August
We kindly ask you to register by phone at +49 (0)30 288788588 or by email at ticket@radialsystem.de.
Audio description is a live audio track narrated by professional audio describers via a headset for people with visual impairments. The audio describers are specially trained to describe the key visual details of a performance – which would otherwise be inaccessible to visually impaired audience members – in a clear and engaging manner.
Cast
Direction
Alice Ripoll
Dancers
Alan Ferreira
Hiltinho Fantástico
Katiany Correa
Romulo Galvão
Tamires Costa
Tuany Nascimento
Assistant Direction, Stage Design, Costume
Thais Peixoto
Tourmanagement
Joana D’Aguiar
Production and Costume Assistant
Isabela Peixoto
Stand-in
Allison Trindade
Lightdesign
Tomás Ribas
Stagedesign
Aurora dos Campos
Alice Ripoll
Costume
Cia REC
Rehearsal Assistant
Tony Ewerton
Teachers
Camila Moura
Laura Samy
Pedro Lima
Sales
ART HAPPENS
Audiodescription
Emmilou Roessling
Cast
Direction
Alice Ripoll
Dancers
Alan Ferreira
Hiltinho Fantástico
Katiany Correa
Romulo Galvão
Tamires Costa
Tuany Nascimento
Assistant Direction, Stage Design, Costume
Thais Peixoto
Tourmanagement
Joana D’Aguiar
Production and Costume Assistant
Isabela Peixoto
Stand-in
Allison Trindade
Lightdesign
Tomás Ribas
Stagedesign
Aurora dos Campos
Alice Ripoll
Costume
Cia REC
Rehearsal Assistant
Tony Ewerton
Teachers
Camila Moura
Laura Samy
Pedro Lima
Sales
ART HAPPENS
Audiodescription
Emmilou Roessling
Biographies
Alice Ripoll is a choreographer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work is rooted in contemporary dance and urban dance styles from Brazil. Through her research, she creates a space in which the dancers transform their individual experiences and memories into images. She currently leads the two ensembles Cia. REC and Cia. SUAVE.
Cia REC was founded in 2009 and is a powerful group of artists from the ghetto who develop and reinterpret contemporary art. The group consists of artistic director Alice Ripoll and the performers Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Tamires Costa, Tony Hewerton, Tuany Nascimento and Romulo Galvão. Their work is presented at numerous festivals in Brazil, Europe, the USA, Japan and Canada.
Biographies
Alice Ripoll is a choreographer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work is rooted in contemporary dance and urban dance styles from Brazil. Through her research, she creates a space in which the dancers transform their individual experiences and memories into images. She currently leads the two ensembles Cia. REC and Cia. SUAVE.
Cia REC was founded in 2009 and is a powerful group of artists from the ghetto who develop and reinterpret contemporary art. The group consists of artistic director Alice Ripoll and the performers Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Tamires Costa, Tony Hewerton, Tuany Nascimento and Romulo Galvão. Their work is presented at numerous festivals in Brazil, Europe, the USA, Japan and Canada.
Further Information
The new series “wielding fissures – carving cracks in the surface of the now” productively confronts our seemingly collective sense of doom, tracing cracks in the present through which we can feel our way towards alternative possible worlds.
From July 2026, Radialsystem is inviting artists whose practice liberates aesthetic forms of expression from existing conventions, questioning dominant narratives. Five Berlin premieres ranging from opera, choreography and documentary forms are accompanied by dialogue formats on “Embodied Practices” and “Local Hosting”. The series runs until summer 2027, and will be opened by choreographers Alice Ripoll and Sorour Darabi.
How can we picture the future in times of crisis? Reactionary ideologies are gaining strength worldwide, social movements against inequality are increasingly endangered, and marginalised bodies are being systematically excluded. Even culture and artistic imagination are starting to be conceptualised as potential threats. “wielding fissures” frames the act of looking ahead as an act of hope, an open fracture point, in which new forms of imagining can be explored. The series brings together choreographic works that conceptualise the body as a site of difference, vulnerability, and resourcefulness, making desires that continue to resonate tangible in the chaos of the present.
Further Information
The new series “wielding fissures – carving cracks in the surface of the now” productively confronts our seemingly collective sense of doom, tracing cracks in the present through which we can feel our way towards alternative possible worlds.
From July 2026, Radialsystem is inviting artists whose practice liberates aesthetic forms of expression from existing conventions, questioning dominant narratives. Five Berlin premieres ranging from opera, choreography and documentary forms are accompanied by dialogue formats on “Embodied Practices” and “Local Hosting”. The series runs until summer 2027, and will be opened by choreographers Alice Ripoll and Sorour Darabi.
How can we picture the future in times of crisis? Reactionary ideologies are gaining strength worldwide, social movements against inequality are increasingly endangered, and marginalised bodies are being systematically excluded. Even culture and artistic imagination are starting to be conceptualised as potential threats. “wielding fissures” frames the act of looking ahead as an act of hope, an open fracture point, in which new forms of imagining can be explored. The series brings together choreographic works that conceptualise the body as a site of difference, vulnerability, and resourcefulness, making desires that continue to resonate tangible in the chaos of the present.
Visitor Information
Duration
approx. 55 minutes
Audio description, Saturday 1 August
We kindly ask you to register by phone at +49 (0)30 288788588 or by email at ticket@radialsystem.de.
Audio description is a live audio track narrated by professional audio describers via a headset for people with visual impairments. The audio describers are specially trained to describe the key visual details of a performance – which would otherwise be inaccessible to visually impaired audience members – in a clear and engaging manner.
Credits
A production by Alice Ripoll. In co-production with Festival Dias da Dança, Theater Rotterdam, PACT Zollverein and Charleroi Danse.
The series “wielding fissures” is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of the Cross-Disciplinary Funding Program. With the support of the Radial Stiftung.
Media partners Radialsystem: taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, Rausgegangen, The Berliner.
Credits
A production by Alice Ripoll. In co-production with Festival Dias da Dança, Theater Rotterdam, PACT Zollverein and Charleroi Danse.
The series “wielding fissures” is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of the Cross-Disciplinary Funding Program. With the support of the Radial Stiftung.
Media partners Radialsystem: taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, Rausgegangen, The Berliner.
In “Adorno”, the Portuguese word for “jewellery”, “ornament” or “decoration”, Alice Ripoll juxtaposes the age of algorithms with that which makes us most human: ornamental gestures, changeable moods, and spontaneous desires - the apparently trivial embellishments which we all use to construct our own lives. The Berlin premiere of Alice Ripoll’s performance also marks the opening of the new series wielding fissures - carving cracks in the surface of the now in Radialsystem.
On her search for connection in difference, the choreographer explores the question of how to conceptualise a “we”, when no two individuals in our population of 8 million people are identical. The audience is carried by a tempestuous group, moving forwards and backwards in waves like the course of history itself. Scenes unfurl in a dreamlike atmosphere, confronting us with what we think is unique: our memories, our bodies, our affections - our inner tides.
Embodied Practice with Hiltinho Fantástico and Katiany Correia
Thu 30 07 2026 5.30 pm
Admission is free. The number of participants is limited, please register in advance.
Local Hosting with Alice Ripoll
Sun 02 08 2026, following the performance, in English
Co-hosts Prof. Dr. Mariama Diagne (dance scholar), Michelle Moura (choreographer)
Cast
Direction
Alice Ripoll
Dancers
Alan Ferreira
Hiltinho Fantástico
Katiany Correa
Romulo Galvão
Tamires Costa
Tuany Nascimento
Assistant Direction, Stage Design, Costume
Thais Peixoto
Tourmanagement
Joana D’Aguiar
Production and Costume Assistant
Isabela Peixoto
Stand-in
Allison Trindade
Lightdesign
Tomás Ribas
Stagedesign
Aurora dos Campos
Alice Ripoll
Costume
Cia REC
Rehearsal Assistant
Tony Ewerton
Teachers
Camila Moura
Laura Samy
Pedro Lima
Sales
ART HAPPENS
Audiodescription
Emmilou Roessling
Biographies
Alice Ripoll is a choreographer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work is rooted in contemporary dance and urban dance styles from Brazil. Through her research, she creates a space in which the dancers transform their individual experiences and memories into images. She currently leads the two ensembles Cia. REC and Cia. SUAVE.
Cia REC was founded in 2009 and is a powerful group of artists from the ghetto who develop and reinterpret contemporary art. The group consists of artistic director Alice Ripoll and the performers Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Tamires Costa, Tony Hewerton, Tuany Nascimento and Romulo Galvão. Their work is presented at numerous festivals in Brazil, Europe, the USA, Japan and Canada.
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