Bodies We Fall for at NO LIMITS

A moment from the performance Bodies We Fall For. Two short-haired women, their bodies smudged with dirt, sit on the thick layer of soil covering the entire floor, gazing into the distance. The woman in the foreground, who is plus-size compared to the woman behind her, has her mouth open as if speaking passionately. Behind her, the other woman gazes upwards and ahead, a slight smile on her face and a dreamy expression in her blue eyes. To their left, a sign language interpreter dressed in black interprets the text, while a surtitled line appears above her, reading: “P: If I weren’t disabled, would you be in this performance? Would you be here?”

“Bodies We Fall For” continues its international journey, travelling to Berlin for the NO LIMITS – Disability & Performing Arts Festival on Saturday, November 14.

About the Performance

Two young women tell their unadulterated, tender and inclusive truth about love and sexuality live on stage. Based on real stories, this documentary performance asks questions about first kisses, dates, sex and digital encounters.

But most of all: do all bodies have the same access to love?

“Bodies We Fall For” is an accessible documentary performance about love in Cypriot Greek dialect and marked by creative forms of accessibility like integrated audio description, interpretation into sign language, surtitles, a tactile tour and multi-sensory elements.

With tenderness, humor and unvarnished honesty, the piece deals with love in terms of accessibility, as a political, deeply personal and, at the same time, universal act of resistance.

NO LIMITS Festival

In its twelfth edition, NO LIMITS presents a diverse program featuring works by artists who identify as disabled, blind, chronically ill, Deaf, having learning disabilities or neurodivergent.

For the first time, Germany’s largest and most important festival for Disability & Performing Arts is curated exclusively by disabled experts.

ℹ️ More about NO LIMITS Festival here.

Credits

On stage: Nayia T. Karacosta, roz, Inna Shparber
Director and researcher: Elena Sokratous
Writer, researcher and performer: Nayia T. Karacosta
Poet, researcher and performer: roz (Panayiota Zintili)
Movement: Eleftheria Sokratous, Stella Zannou
Scenographer: Julia Georgiadou
Creative accessibility, touring producer: Christos Papamichael
Video introduction: Panagiotis Paschalidis
Editing: Andreas Touloumis
Lighting design: Vassilis Peteinaris
Poster design: Evanthia Kepola
German Sign Language interpretation: Inna Shparber
Communication Assistance: Matilde Giannotti
Production: Ipogeia Skini Polichoros Sinergeio (Limassol, Cyprus)
Touring production: liminal (Greece)

Useful information

Day and time: Saturday, November 14, 20:00
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Ballhaus Ost

Tickets: ballhaus-ost.reservix.de/