LIVE FROM YOUR HEART
UPCOMING EVENTS​​​
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​​July 19/20 – 2nd Berlin Whirling Sufi Weekend with Asal Lebaschi and Ali Kalantary, Studio2, Berlin
donation-based workshop – more infos via: https://www.berlinwhirling.com/sufi-wochenende-2025/
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July 25, 7pm – LOVE AS AN ACT OF BEING, Lecture & Performance, SomoS Art House, Kottbuser Damm 95, 10967 Berlin
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I'm pleased to return to SomoS Art House with a new edition of my performance series on love, first introduced there in 2015. Titled Love as an Act of Being, this evening reflects on a question that continues to accompany me: What is love?
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Inspired by Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving, which explores the paradox between love’s transformative power and its frequent failures, I revisit love not as a fleeting feeling or unattainable ideal, but as a daily, embodied practice—a way of being.
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This updated edition marks the 10th anniversary of the original performance. It weaves together spoken word, live performance, and movement into a shared space of reflection and presence.
In doing so, I offer love as a resilient, vital force—one that asks for our attention, care, and continued engagement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Berlin Whirling Workshops and Sessions at Studio2, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin:​​​​​
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Sunday, September 21 2025, 2-4pm ​introduction, 4.30-7pm whirling session
Sunday, October 26 2025, 2-4pm ​introduction, 4.30-7pm whirling session with live music by Wassim Mukdad
Sunday, November 23 2025, 2-4pm ​introduction, 4.30-7pm whirling session
Introduction: 55€, reduced 40€
Session: 45€, reduced 30€
Full workshop: 90€, reduced 60€
Reduced price for students, teens, unemployed and elderly people
Successful Registration via Payment to Berlin Whirling – Lisa Stertz
PAST EVENTS:​​
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June 20-22, Whirling Workshop during the Elementemagie Retreat at Seminarkristall Iselsberg, Austria
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May 2024 – May 2025, Participation in the Awareness Intensive Training guided by Ganga Cording, Vardha and Pramod
Friday, May 23rd 2025, performance "Hathis" at KC GRAD, Belgrade
Fri-Sun, Jan 24-26th 2025, Winter Whirl and Awareness Weekend, Bludenz/Austria
co-leading a weekend of whirling, winter hikes, awareness practices and a sema evening with live music by Andreas Amann
Sunday, December 15 2024, 4pm – Rumi and the Dervishes
hosting an event with poetry, zhikrs & whirling with live music by Wassim Mukdad and Siamak Moghaddam, Art Center Bethanien, Berlin
Saturday, November 16 2024, Dervish Whirling Workshop at Adélie Studios Cambridge, UK
Saturday, October 26 2024, 8.30pm – Ha'this (Day 7: Black Light)
doing a ritual performance for Ming Poon's eight-day-oeuvre Stardust at Uferstudio 1, Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin Wedding
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Sunday, Sept 22 2024 – Berlin Whirling at Faiths In Tune Festival Dresden (workshop and performance with Wassim Mukdad)
Sat/Sun, Aug 10/11 – Berlin Whirling Sufi-Weekend with Lisa Stertz and Rasha Vrede
Friday, July 19 2024, 9pm – Performing White
whirling dance performance during the opening of "Lucid City" at Zemin Art Space, Urbanstraße 3, 10961 Berlin
Wednesdays, 5-8pm (Feb 28, Mar 6, Mar 13) – Whirling Dance Classes at Sensible.Earth, Goa/India
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Feb 15 - March 15 2024 – Artist Residency at HH Art Spaces Foundation, Goa/India
Project residency: "I listen to you" (2024) – Presentation/Performance on March 16 2024
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Saturday, February 10th 2024 – performing for Tania Bruguera, 9-10am at Hamburger Bahnhof
Tania Bruguera's piece " Donde tus ideas se convierten en acciones civicas – Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions" was a 100-hours reading. People read from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism", one hour each person. My turn was on Saturday morning. I read in German from 9-10am.
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Sunday, November 19th 2023 – Berlin Whirling Workshop for Peace and Humanness
This BERLIN WHIRLING WORKSHOP is dedicated to the world we live in. It was dedicated to all humans we have recently lost, all humans that are in direct pain and grief of these losses and all humans that ceaselessly put their heart, sweat and effort into stopping the crimes we are witnessing. – It was dedicated to us humans. All earnings went to humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Saturday, November 18th 2023, Dervish Whirling Workshop, Wolfson College, Cambridge
Friday, October 6th, 6-9pm, Berlin Whirling Session
Sunday, September 3rd 2023 – BUTOH DERVISH together with Ylva Falk
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​Sat+Sun, July 29/30 2023, 12-6pm – Berlin Whirling Weekend at Studio2, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Thu-Sun, May 4-7 2023 – workshop and performance during MERASA – a 72h Wellness Experience
​organised by Fa'Pawaka together with Potatohead, Bali/Indonesia​
Friday, May 5, 1h workshop: The Body WithIn
Saturday, May 6, 1h workshop: Butoh Dervish w Ylva Falk
Sunday, May 7, closing ceremony and performance
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Sat, April 8 2023, 4-8pm – Dervish Whirling Workshop at Sana, Monteiro Waddo Anjuna, Bardez, Goa
An introductory workshop into the world of whirling with an opening circle, learning the basics, implementing the basics, short break, physical warmup, whirling session, landing meditation and feedback.
Location (Posa Mindful Gastronomy)
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Fri/Sat, March 17/18 2023, "11:11" – durational performance in the frame of ANTIBODIES, Fort Aguada, Goa/India
HH Art Spaces, Goa and The Tetley, Leeds are thrilled to invite you to 'Antibodies', a collaborative Live Art programme supported by British Council’s India/UK Together Season of Culture Grant.
The list of artists include; Amol K. Patil, Afrah Shafiq, Bandu Manamperi, Hetain Patel, Jana Prepeluh, Joydeb Roaza, Lisa Stertz, Muhammad Shahab Sahel, Nicola Singh, Raisa Kabir, Violeta Lisboa
Performances will happen through the night for 24 hours.
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Older activities can be found in my archive.
All performances are linked and listed under PERFORMANCES.
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