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Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė

BE THANKFUL, THEY SAID

Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim

Performance, Dance

2023  marked the 70th anniversary of the first transnational adoption from  South Korea and the critical voices of adoptees have never been louder.  In Be thankful, they said, the international artistic team  around Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim humorously re-appropriates  clichéd adoption narratives, confronts the erasure of their identities  and shows how those affected reclaim their own stories.

Based on interviews with experts, artists and activists from the  South Korean diaspora, who were themselves adopted as children into  Western countries, the performance traces the aftermath of a history of  global entanglements that still receives little attention. A history  that was not only characterized by charity and humanitarian aid  intentions, but also by the reproduction of colonial structures, white savior fantasies, patriarchal oppression, forced migration and human  trafficking. How do transnational adoptees reflect on their childhood in  retrospect? And what political demands arise today from the lived  experience of transnationally adopted people?

Be thankful, they said is a multidisciplinary artistic  exploration of (pop) cultural and media images of transnational adoption  and the real individual perspectives of the people affected.


04.10./ 05.10. with German Sign Language interpretation of spoken language

05.10. With audio description

Artistic direction, choreography: Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Dance: Daniel Jeremiah Persson
Korean traditional coach: Ji Sun Hagen 
Video design, lighting: Jones Seitz
Stage: Soojin Oh
Costumes: Kristin Gerwien, Arnita Jaunsubrena
Sound artist: Tatiana Heumann
Technical direction: Gretchen Blegen
Dramaturgy: Maria Rößler 
Outside eye: Lena Sunhee Meierkord
Access consulting: Hyemi Jolee
Production management: ehrliche arbeit – freelance cultural office
Transcriptions, assistant director: Mel Brinkmann
Graphic design: Christian Cattelan
DGS interpreting in tandem: Hyemi Jolee, Aniella Tiedje, Lisa Leonhardt
Audio description: Hannah Aldinger, Ari Althaus, Johanna Krins
Guest appereance: Olivia Hyunsin Kim, Ji Sun Hagen

Thanks to: kimura byol lemoine, Mirae kh Rhee, Vic So Hee Alz,  Tobias Hübinette, Kim Huber, Melanie Kleintz, Isabel, Le Dan, Chale  Gobbet, Martine Lunshof, Timm Shik Therre, Erica Joonhee Blikman, Maïté  Minh Tâm Maeum Jeannolin.


A production by Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim in co-production with  Sophiensæle. Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and  Social Cohesion and with funds from the Capital Cultural Fund. Thanks to Uferstudios, PSR Kollektiv and Theaterhaus Berlin.

4. Okt. 2024

18:00

5. Oktober 20:00 | 6. Oktober 18:00 | 7. Oktober 20:00

Price:

15€ | 10€

Festsaal

Sophienstraße 18 | 10178 Berlin

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