BIOFUCK

by LIFT Tanzkollektiv (Liv Schellander, Irene Giró, Fia/Sophia Neises, Tanja Erhart)

A line. 5 bodies. 4 wheels. 3 times 3 legs. 2 ears on each head. 1 made of glass, 1 tongue in each mouth. In a straight line: arm to arm, shoulder to wrist, pinkies entwined. The five white bodies in the line move in a way I can’t grasp. They shift weight, use momentum, push wheels, carry the line through space. Steady, one decides to pivot. The outer edges speed up. Fast, hustling, enjoying and hating the game, they hack space. Blank white canvases are moved, sound of friction across the floor. They get ready to be projected on. The need for gaps, to reach into ancient wisdom and contemporary desires, appears. Holding on to the kinship of these migrated, queer, crip bodies seems essential. Seemingly lost, seeking linearity, the five bodies realize there is more. They break open. I hear them fall apart, grieving-sobbing, raging-laughing, swallowing unknowns. Nurtured to reveal the new now, it becomes theirs. It becomes ours. I feel an urge to explore. You too? Welcome to BIOFUCK! A testimony to non-linear biographies.

LIFT Tanzkollektiv (Liv Schellander, Irene Giró, Fia/Sophia Neises, Tanja Erhart) is a constellation of crip, queer and migrant bodies driven by a shared commitment to creating new encounters and narrative spaces that center Aesthetics of Access.

Concept and Artistic Direction LIFT Tanzkollektiv (Liv Schellander, Irene Giró, Fia/Sophia Neises, Tanja Erhart) Performance Tanja Erhart, Irene Giró, Rita Mazza, Fia/Sophia Neises, Liv Schellander DGS Performance Rita Mazza Technical Direction and Light Design Gretchen Blegen Video and Surtitles Declan Hurley Stage and Costume Design Yoav Admoni Costume Design Assistance Evan Loxton Music Biljana Pais DGS Coach  Corinna Brenner Deaf Dramaturgy Pia Katharina Jendreizik Access Dramaturgy for blind and visually impaired audience Agnes Kappaun, Fia/Sophia Neises Access Dramaturgy for Relaxed Performance Ema Benčíková, Milena (Miles) Wendt Access Dramaturgy for physically disabled audience Tanja Erhart Press and Public Relations Gina Jeske Film documentation Tanja Brzaković Production management Olivia Hotz, Esther Schneider Interpreters for German Sign Language and German Alma Arnoul, Charmaine Callahan, Viviane Grünberger, Flo Köhler, Stella Papantonatos, Brice Stapelfeldt Music-audioflyer Biljana Pais Speakers-audioflyer Tanja Erhart, Irene Giró Access Friends Pauri Röwert, Lex Marlo Mannigel, Joelle Burrichter, Nancy Mirelíz Ortíz Domínguez, Luka Niedermeier, Ina Jia Guo, Neely De Jong, Annika Faeschke, Brice Stapelfeldt, Gina Jeske Photographer Xenia Dürr

BIOFUCK is a production by Sophia Neises in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost and brut Wien. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Premiere Berlin Ballhaus Ost: 23, 24, 25 January, 2026

Premiere Vienna brut Wien: 4, 6, 7 March, 2026