Unrenewable Energies
September 15 – October 17, 2025
Making a Difference ist hosting the festival Unrenewable Energies. Unrenewable Energies is a dance festival that centers time, energy, and resources from disabled, Deaf, and chronically ill perspectives.
Navigating limited resources, unpredictable influences, and interdependencies – as well as practicing mutual care and collective time-taking – are crip expertises. Unrenewable Energies celebrates these as critical practices that resonate far beyond disability contexts.
The festival asks: What happens when artistic processes are radically shaped by the needs of disabled, Deaf, and chronically ill artists – and their audiences?
Over the course of four weeks, the festival stretches what is often squeezed into weekend marathons: Unrenewable Energies features two productions, two residencies, four practice sharings, three bed-side performances, peer-to-peer mentoring, exchange formats – and a final party. Boom! The festival also includes a symposium, which will take place in cooperation with the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin, at HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Apart from the Symposium, the program takes place consciously during the week – keeping weekends free for rest and recovery.
Unrenewable Energies challenges what is often taken for granted and creates space for crip perspectives and new experiences of shared time.
From mid-August, detailed information on the individual formats and the respective accessibility measures will be available at festival.making-a-difference-berlin.de.