On June 28, Ponyhof hosts the third edition of Ponyhof Rodeo Sessions, a monthly public program dedicated to performance, theatre, dance, and works in progress within Berlin’s independent art scene.

Ponyhof Rodeo Sessions is conceived as a space for experimentation, visibility, and encounter. It brings together artists working from the Latin American diaspora in Germany, creating a context where unfinished works, fragments, and open processes can be shared with audiences in an intimate and direct way.

This edition brings together four independent pieces in a raw dialogue with literature, memory, transformation, and the strange beauty of things falling apart. From cosmic deaths to pop culture obsessions, from fractured monologues to choreographic rituals, the program listens to the echoes of what no longer belongs to us.

We explore endings that are not quite final, and the act of breaking established narratives, old masks, and idealized myths to see what still breathes beneath the ruins.

The event and performances will be mainly in Spanish.

Program

Piantá-piantá — Violeta Maluendres González

Piantá-piantá is a performance piece inhabited by literary echoes, repetitive gestures, and a fractured voice that returns again and again. Through looped movements and a monologue that repeats like a glitch, a spectral figure refuses to accept the finality of a home, a time, and a belonging that no longer exist.

The piece is the first original stage work by Violeta Maluendres González, an Argentine communicator, visual artist, and cultural worker based in Berlin since 2019. Her practice moves across video art, writing, and live performance, exploring migration, memory, and intuition.

¿Qué me hiciste Nicolás? (O el arte de idealizar) — Clara Fuhrmann

¿Qué me hiciste Nicolás? (O el arte de idealizar) is a sharp, dark-humored theatrical piece exploring obsession, pop culture delusions, and the romantic myths we impose on ourselves.

Through absurdity, comedy, and theatrical risk, the work deconstructs idealized narratives of love and desire, asking what happens when an intimate fiction becomes a mask, a trap, or a small everyday tragedy.

Clara Fuhrmann is an Argentine performer based in Berlin, with a background in dance and theatre. Her work moves through absurdity, comedy, and improvisation as tools for scenic exploration, creating playful universes from the simplicity of everyday life.

Individuación — Pablo César Gómez Inostroza

Individuación is a performance inspired by depth psychology. The piece stages the shattering of the social mask and the collapse of the ego: a physical journey in which allowing an old version of oneself to die becomes a path toward transformation.

The work approaches the body as a territory of crisis, passage, and reconstruction, opening a question around authenticity: what remains when the forms that once protected us are no longer enough?

Pablo César Gómez Inostroza is a Chilean performing artist based in Berlin. Trained as an actor, he develops his artistic practice through performance, incorporating dance and physical expression as tools to explore body, movement, emotion, and identity.

SUPERNOVA — Catalina Andrea Tello Aránguiz

SUPERNOVA is a contemporary circus and dance piece that intertwines astronomy and human grief. Taking the death of a massive star as its starting point, the work creates a physical and visual metaphor for loss, collapse, and the emergence of a new order.

In SUPERNOVA, every ending contains transformation. Disappearance is not only absence: it can also become matter, expansion, energy, and birth.

Catalina Andrea Tello Aránguiz is a Chilean dancer, aerial acrobat, and choreographer based in Berlin. Her practice combines contemporary dance and aerial circus techniques, developing a personal artistic language connected to death, the spiritual relationship with the universe, colonialism, and Indigenous knowledge.

After the performances: terrace conversation

After the pieces, we will open a space for dialogue on the Ponyhof terrace.

For us, Rodeo Sessions does not end when the performances end. It continues in the questions, conversations, and connections that emerge afterwards. The terrace gathering is an invitation to stay a little longer, share impressions, meet other artists, and think together.

About Ponyhof Rodeo Sessions

Ponyhof Rodeo Sessions is a monthly public program dedicated to works in progress, performance, theatre, dance, and experimental practices within Berlin’s independent scene.

The series creates a regular space for artists from the Latin American diaspora in Germany, supporting visibility, exchange, and community around artistic processes that often do not find space in more institutional contexts.

Each edition brings together performance, conversation, and community.

Practical Information

Date: June 28
Time: 17:00
Location: Ponyhof, Breitenbachstraße 34–36, 13509 Berlin
Language: Mainly Spanish
Admission: Free entry / donations welcome

About Ponyhof

Ponyhof is a temporary hub for performing arts, collective research, and community practice in Reinickendorf, initiated by Karne Kunst and Puente Berlin. It is a space to test ideas, share artistic processes, and build connections across disciplines and communities.

Credits

Ponyhof Rodeo Sessions III
Initiated by Karne Kunst and Puente Berlin

Artists:
Violeta Maluendres González
Clara Fuhrmann
Pablo César Gómez Inostroza
Catalina Andrea Tello Aránguiz