V A S T A
Lina Gómez
Performance / Tanz
© Mayra Wallraff
© Mayra Wallraff
Saal
Fr 2026 18:30h Premiere
Sa 2026 18:30h Artist Talk afterwards
Su 2026 18:30h with Audio Description & tactile tour
Ticket Prices
16 Euro reduced 12 Euro
Ticket Prices
16 Euro reduced 12 Euro
Ticket Prices
16 Euro reduced 12 Euro
In “V A S T A”, Lina Gómez, after seventeen years, returns to the stage as a dancer in her own work. In a solo of multiple presences on origin and transformation, she moves backwards, drawing on Latin American cosmovisions where the past lies ahead of us.
In dialogue with her deceased grandmothers, the body becomes a living archive. Memories of Colombian and Brazilian dance traditions unfold through circular movement, rhythm, and live percussion. “V A S T A” approaches the circle as a space of encounter, resistance, and shared time – asking: what do we carry forward, what do we transform, what do we leave behind?
Visitor Information
Duration
Approx. 50 minutes
Artist Talk
Following the performance on Saturday, July 25th, there will be an artist talk with Luciane Ramos-Silva.
Audio description, Sunday 26 July
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 trained to describe the significant visual details of a performance – which would otherwise be inaccessible to visually impaired audience members – in a clear and engaging manner. Tactile Tours: 20–30-minute guided sessions before the performance, allowing visitors with visual impairments to explore the space, performers, costumes, props, and key movement elements through touch and movement.
A pick-up service from Ostbahnhof to Radialsystem can also be booked in advance via the same contact details.
Cast
Artistic direction, concept, choreography, dance
Lina Gómez
Conversation partners
Rosa Tulia Garcia
Cenith Antonia Serrudo
Artistic collaboration and choreographic advice
Ana Lessing Menjibar
Live percussion and composition
Aduni Guedes
Live music, composition and sound design
Andrea Parolin
Lighting design
Bruno Pocheron
Outside-eye
Luciane Ramos-Silva
Dramaturgical advice
Thomas Schaupp
Costume design
Reiner Törner
Technical direction
Bruno Pocheron
Andrea Parolin
Distribution
Tammo Walter
Production management
M.i.C.A. - Movement in Contemporary Art
Cast
Artistic direction, concept, choreography, dance
Lina Gómez
Conversation partners
Rosa Tulia Garcia
Cenith Antonia Serrudo
Artistic collaboration and choreographic advice
Ana Lessing Menjibar
Live percussion and composition
Aduni Guedes
Live music, composition and sound design
Andrea Parolin
Lighting design
Bruno Pocheron
Outside-eye
Luciane Ramos-Silva
Dramaturgical advice
Thomas Schaupp
Costume design
Reiner Törner
Technical direction
Bruno Pocheron
Andrea Parolin
Distribution
Tammo Walter
Production management
M.i.C.A. - Movement in Contemporary Art
Biographies
Lina Gómez is a Colombian-born, Brazilian-raised choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Berlin. Her work challenges our perception of time through persistence and repetition, interweaving diverse movement traditions with the energy that flows between music and body. Gómez studied Dance and Theater in São Paulo and completed a Master's in Choreography at HZT Berlin. Her most recent ensemble creations include "WIRRUNGEN – Sapatos Cegos" (2024), a performance for public spaces, "Antigone" (2025), in collaboration with Jörg Wesemüller at Staatstheater Braunschweig, "Vagarosas" (2023) and "Träumerei des Verschwindens" (2022), both presented at Radialsystem Berlin. Since 2015, she has been selected for residencies across continents, including the prestigious Villa Kamogawa Residency – Goethe-Institut in Kyoto. www.linapgomez.com
Ana Lessing Menjibar is a German-Spanish performer, dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary work combines the body with sound, multimedia, and sculptural elements as an expanded choreographic practice, experimenting with the transformative potential of flamenco in the context of performance and contemporary dance. Her work “Third Skin” (2023) is a poetic response to the unearthing of her family history and is dedicated to the experiences of war and fascism, collective and individual wounds, and experiences of political resistance across three generations. Her new work “REMATAR” will premiere in February 2027 at Radialsystem in collaboration with Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Luciane Ramos-Silva is a Brazilian performing artist, anthropologist, and independent curator. She is a professor in the Department of Body Arts at the Institute of Arts of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Through both her academic and artistic practice, she develops South–South exchanges with West Africa, conducting field research in Burkina Faso, Guinea-Conakry, and Senegal, while also performing in various spaces across the continent. Her current research and artistic interests focus on the relationships between coloniality, territory, the body, and diasporic perspectives. Among her artistic works areOlhos nas costas e um riso irônico no canto da boca (2018), Brita, lugares vermelhos e impossíveis para existir (2021), andAmor catastrófico (2022).
Andrea Parolin is a sound engineer, technical director, and sound designer. In 2011, he graduated from the Scuola Civica di Cinema, Televisione e nuovi Media in Milan. Since moving to Berlin in 2013, he has collaborated with choreographers and artists, including Thiago Granato, Sergiu Matis, Andrea Salustri, Mariagiulia Serantoni, Lina Gómez, and Jefta Van Dinther.
Aduni Guedes is a percussionist and singer from northeastern Brazil who now lives in Berlin. In his music, he blends traditional Afro-Brazilian sounds with West African and modern influences. In Brazil, Aduni has already shared the stage with several big names in the Brazilian music scene, including Vitor Araújo, Grupo Höröyá, Ekò Afrobeat, and Baby do Brasil (Novos Baianos).
Bruno Pocheron works internationally as a freelance lighting, stage, and sound designer. He creates performative installations based on his work with lighting. He is currently involved in stage projects with Mette Edvardsen (Oslo), Stina Fors (Vienna), Ted Hearne and Daniel Fish (USA), Lina Gómez (Berlin), Daphna Horenczyck (Vienna), Rotraud Kern (Vienna), Isabelle Schad (Berlin), and Malte Schlösser (Berlin).
Reiner Törner is a Berlin-based costume and fashion designer. In his work, he views clothing as a language of the body and of space. His works, created in close dialogue with movement, regard the costume not as adornment, but as an active structure within the performance.
Thomas Schaupp is a dance dramaturg and curator. Since 2010, he has been collaborating internationally with choreographers and institutions in Europe and beyond. He regularly serves as a consultant in mentoring programs at choreographic institutions and as a guest lecturer at academies such as the Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavík.
Biographies
Lina Gómez is a Colombian-born, Brazilian-raised choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Berlin. Her work challenges our perception of time through persistence and repetition, interweaving diverse movement traditions with the energy that flows between music and body. Gómez studied Dance and Theater in São Paulo and completed a Master's in Choreography at HZT Berlin. Her most recent ensemble creations include "WIRRUNGEN – Sapatos Cegos" (2024), a performance for public spaces, "Antigone" (2025), in collaboration with Jörg Wesemüller at Staatstheater Braunschweig, "Vagarosas" (2023) and "Träumerei des Verschwindens" (2022), both presented at Radialsystem Berlin. Since 2015, she has been selected for residencies across continents, including the prestigious Villa Kamogawa Residency – Goethe-Institut in Kyoto. www.linapgomez.com
Ana Lessing Menjibar is a German-Spanish performer, dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary work combines the body with sound, multimedia, and sculptural elements as an expanded choreographic practice, experimenting with the transformative potential of flamenco in the context of performance and contemporary dance. Her work “Third Skin” (2023) is a poetic response to the unearthing of her family history and is dedicated to the experiences of war and fascism, collective and individual wounds, and experiences of political resistance across three generations. Her new work “REMATAR” will premiere in February 2027 at Radialsystem in collaboration with Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Luciane Ramos-Silva is a Brazilian performing artist, anthropologist, and independent curator. She is a professor in the Department of Body Arts at the Institute of Arts of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Through both her academic and artistic practice, she develops South–South exchanges with West Africa, conducting field research in Burkina Faso, Guinea-Conakry, and Senegal, while also performing in various spaces across the continent. Her current research and artistic interests focus on the relationships between coloniality, territory, the body, and diasporic perspectives. Among her artistic works areOlhos nas costas e um riso irônico no canto da boca (2018), Brita, lugares vermelhos e impossíveis para existir (2021), andAmor catastrófico (2022).
Andrea Parolin is a sound engineer, technical director, and sound designer. In 2011, he graduated from the Scuola Civica di Cinema, Televisione e nuovi Media in Milan. Since moving to Berlin in 2013, he has collaborated with choreographers and artists, including Thiago Granato, Sergiu Matis, Andrea Salustri, Mariagiulia Serantoni, Lina Gómez, and Jefta Van Dinther.
Aduni Guedes is a percussionist and singer from northeastern Brazil who now lives in Berlin. In his music, he blends traditional Afro-Brazilian sounds with West African and modern influences. In Brazil, Aduni has already shared the stage with several big names in the Brazilian music scene, including Vitor Araújo, Grupo Höröyá, Ekò Afrobeat, and Baby do Brasil (Novos Baianos).
Bruno Pocheron works internationally as a freelance lighting, stage, and sound designer. He creates performative installations based on his work with lighting. He is currently involved in stage projects with Mette Edvardsen (Oslo), Stina Fors (Vienna), Ted Hearne and Daniel Fish (USA), Lina Gómez (Berlin), Daphna Horenczyck (Vienna), Rotraud Kern (Vienna), Isabelle Schad (Berlin), and Malte Schlösser (Berlin).
Reiner Törner is a Berlin-based costume and fashion designer. In his work, he views clothing as a language of the body and of space. His works, created in close dialogue with movement, regard the costume not as adornment, but as an active structure within the performance.
Thomas Schaupp is a dance dramaturg and curator. Since 2010, he has been collaborating internationally with choreographers and institutions in Europe and beyond. He regularly serves as a consultant in mentoring programs at choreographic institutions and as a guest lecturer at academies such as the Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavík.
Visitor Information
Duration
Approx. 50 minutes
Artist Talk
Following the performance on Saturday, July 25th, there will be an artist talk with Luciane Ramos-Silva.
Audio description, Sunday 26 July
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 trained to describe the significant visual details of a performance – which would otherwise be inaccessible to visually impaired audience members – in a clear and engaging manner. Tactile Tours: 20–30-minute guided sessions before the performance, allowing visitors with visual impairments to explore the space, performers, costumes, props, and key movement elements through touch and movement.
A pick-up service from Ostbahnhof to Radialsystem can also be booked in advance via the same contact details.
Credits
A production by Lina Gómez in co-production with Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. A co-production of the Fonds Transfabrik – French-German Fund for the Performing Arts.
Supported by a residency at Perform[d]ance / Stralsund as well as by ETAPE DANSE, a network of fabrik Potsdam, La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne and Mosaico Danza – Interplay Festival, with the support of the Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse / Institut français Deutschland, the French Ministry of Culture / DGCA, the City of Potsdam, Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, Lavanderia a Vapore Turin, the Torinodanza Festival / Fondazione Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, the Tanz im August festival, and the EFFEA European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists.
Thanks to: Maria Esperanza Arias Garcia, Oswaldo Alonso Gómez Serrudo, Pilar Arias Garcia, Adriana Arias, Emerita Ivonne Gómez Serrudo, Carmen Sofía Gómez Serrudo, Nelson Antonio Gómez Serrudo, Ivan Darío Gómez Serrudo, Maria Angélica Gómez Serrudo, Zorayda Serrudo, Jose Luis Serrudo, Nery Sofia Diaz, Juan Camilo Alfonso, Esteban Card, Festival Nacional de Bullerengue Maria La Baja, Kuagro Bullerenguero Dolores Salinas, Comunidad Bullerenguera de Berlín, Maestra Darlina Sáenz, Valeria Pacific, Julek Kreutzer, Juca Junior, Team Physiotherapy Roseli Dutra, Isabela Fernandes Santana, Joaquim Lino, Gustavo Llano, Martin Stiefermann, Jana Bäskau, Schloss Bröllin and its team.
Radialsystem media partners: The Berliner, tip Berlin, tanz die tageszeitung.
Credits
A production by Lina Gómez in co-production with Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. A co-production of the Fonds Transfabrik – French-German Fund for the Performing Arts.
Supported by a residency at Perform[d]ance / Stralsund as well as by ETAPE DANSE, a network of fabrik Potsdam, La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne and Mosaico Danza – Interplay Festival, with the support of the Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse / Institut français Deutschland, the French Ministry of Culture / DGCA, the City of Potsdam, Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, Lavanderia a Vapore Turin, the Torinodanza Festival / Fondazione Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, the Tanz im August festival, and the EFFEA European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists.
Thanks to: Maria Esperanza Arias Garcia, Oswaldo Alonso Gómez Serrudo, Pilar Arias Garcia, Adriana Arias, Emerita Ivonne Gómez Serrudo, Carmen Sofía Gómez Serrudo, Nelson Antonio Gómez Serrudo, Ivan Darío Gómez Serrudo, Maria Angélica Gómez Serrudo, Zorayda Serrudo, Jose Luis Serrudo, Nery Sofia Diaz, Juan Camilo Alfonso, Esteban Card, Festival Nacional de Bullerengue Maria La Baja, Kuagro Bullerenguero Dolores Salinas, Comunidad Bullerenguera de Berlín, Maestra Darlina Sáenz, Valeria Pacific, Julek Kreutzer, Juca Junior, Team Physiotherapy Roseli Dutra, Isabela Fernandes Santana, Joaquim Lino, Gustavo Llano, Martin Stiefermann, Jana Bäskau, Schloss Bröllin and its team.
Radialsystem media partners: The Berliner, tip Berlin, tanz die tageszeitung.
In “V A S T A”, Lina Gómez, after seventeen years, returns to the stage as a dancer in her own work. In a solo of multiple presences on origin and transformation, she moves backwards, drawing on Latin American cosmovisions where the past lies ahead of us.
In dialogue with her deceased grandmothers, the body becomes a living archive. Memories of Colombian and Brazilian dance traditions unfold through circular movement, rhythm, and live percussion. “V A S T A” approaches the circle as a space of encounter, resistance, and shared time – asking: what do we carry forward, what do we transform, what do we leave behind?
Cast
Artistic direction, concept, choreography, dance
Lina Gómez
Conversation partners
Rosa Tulia Garcia
Cenith Antonia Serrudo
Artistic collaboration and choreographic advice
Ana Lessing Menjibar
Live percussion and composition
Aduni Guedes
Live music, composition and sound design
Andrea Parolin
Lighting design
Bruno Pocheron
Outside-eye
Luciane Ramos-Silva
Dramaturgical advice
Thomas Schaupp
Costume design
Reiner Törner
Technical direction
Bruno Pocheron
Andrea Parolin
Distribution
Tammo Walter
Production management
M.i.C.A. - Movement in Contemporary Art
Biographies
Lina Gómez is a Colombian-born, Brazilian-raised choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Berlin. Her work challenges our perception of time through persistence and repetition, interweaving diverse movement traditions with the energy that flows between music and body. Gómez studied Dance and Theater in São Paulo and completed a Master's in Choreography at HZT Berlin. Her most recent ensemble creations include "WIRRUNGEN – Sapatos Cegos" (2024), a performance for public spaces, "Antigone" (2025), in collaboration with Jörg Wesemüller at Staatstheater Braunschweig, "Vagarosas" (2023) and "Träumerei des Verschwindens" (2022), both presented at Radialsystem Berlin. Since 2015, she has been selected for residencies across continents, including the prestigious Villa Kamogawa Residency – Goethe-Institut in Kyoto. www.linapgomez.com
Ana Lessing Menjibar is a German-Spanish performer, dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary work combines the body with sound, multimedia, and sculptural elements as an expanded choreographic practice, experimenting with the transformative potential of flamenco in the context of performance and contemporary dance. Her work “Third Skin” (2023) is a poetic response to the unearthing of her family history and is dedicated to the experiences of war and fascism, collective and individual wounds, and experiences of political resistance across three generations. Her new work “REMATAR” will premiere in February 2027 at Radialsystem in collaboration with Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Luciane Ramos-Silva is a Brazilian performing artist, anthropologist, and independent curator. She is a professor in the Department of Body Arts at the Institute of Arts of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Through both her academic and artistic practice, she develops South–South exchanges with West Africa, conducting field research in Burkina Faso, Guinea-Conakry, and Senegal, while also performing in various spaces across the continent. Her current research and artistic interests focus on the relationships between coloniality, territory, the body, and diasporic perspectives. Among her artistic works areOlhos nas costas e um riso irônico no canto da boca (2018), Brita, lugares vermelhos e impossíveis para existir (2021), andAmor catastrófico (2022).
Andrea Parolin is a sound engineer, technical director, and sound designer. In 2011, he graduated from the Scuola Civica di Cinema, Televisione e nuovi Media in Milan. Since moving to Berlin in 2013, he has collaborated with choreographers and artists, including Thiago Granato, Sergiu Matis, Andrea Salustri, Mariagiulia Serantoni, Lina Gómez, and Jefta Van Dinther.
Aduni Guedes is a percussionist and singer from northeastern Brazil who now lives in Berlin. In his music, he blends traditional Afro-Brazilian sounds with West African and modern influences. In Brazil, Aduni has already shared the stage with several big names in the Brazilian music scene, including Vitor Araújo, Grupo Höröyá, Ekò Afrobeat, and Baby do Brasil (Novos Baianos).
Bruno Pocheron works internationally as a freelance lighting, stage, and sound designer. He creates performative installations based on his work with lighting. He is currently involved in stage projects with Mette Edvardsen (Oslo), Stina Fors (Vienna), Ted Hearne and Daniel Fish (USA), Lina Gómez (Berlin), Daphna Horenczyck (Vienna), Rotraud Kern (Vienna), Isabelle Schad (Berlin), and Malte Schlösser (Berlin).
Reiner Törner is a Berlin-based costume and fashion designer. In his work, he views clothing as a language of the body and of space. His works, created in close dialogue with movement, regard the costume not as adornment, but as an active structure within the performance.
Thomas Schaupp is a dance dramaturg and curator. Since 2010, he has been collaborating internationally with choreographers and institutions in Europe and beyond. He regularly serves as a consultant in mentoring programs at choreographic institutions and as a guest lecturer at academies such as the Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavík.
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