Spark flight

Roni Katz, Lee Méir, Joni Barnard & Junges Tanzhaus Berlin

Premiere: expected spring 2027

Roni Katz, Lee Méir and Joni Barnard are resident artists at the Junge Tanzhaus Berlin and develop a participatory performance for this purpose. As part of this process, they offer workshops and other participatory events, such as Family Clubbing, to explore how to engage adults and children together as audiences.

The work they develop – ‘Funkenflug’ – is a participatory performance at the intersection of ritual, festival, dance and live art. Conceived as an intergenerational social event, this work focuses on fire and explores its dual character: the light it gives and the shadow it casts. Fire as a symbol of warmth, communion and joy, but also as a force of transformation, liberation and burning of what we carry with us in the dark. Participants are not mere spectators, but active co-creators who go through a series of carefully guided phases: cooking together, transformation through costumes and a collective ritual in which difficulties - be it grief, frustration or whatever was brought - are playfully turned outward. At the center of the experience, the space opens up to a dance environment that is characterized by sound, music and light. Movement becomes a common language that connects the participants through rhythm, closeness and presence at the same time individually and as a community. ‘Funkenflug’ is less about a spectacle and more about what has an impact. Participants go home with the awareness that they have been part of and shaped by a temporary community; They take with them a feeling of warmth, connection and the silent resonance of a shared experience.