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LIVE FROM YOUR HEART

UPCOMING EVENTS​​​

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Sunday, December 14 2025, 5pm, Sema, Rumi, Light and Music with Ali Kalantary (live-music and poetry)

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Ali Kalantary and I warmly invite you to a special Sema Session on December 14th at Studio2 & Media Library for Dance and Theatre.

 

From 5pm onwards we will fill the space with live music, poetry and whirling.

This is Berlin Whirling's last event of 2025.

Mark your calendars and join us for this truly unique get together under the stars of Sufism.

We look forward to being, chanting and whirling with you!

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More infos via www.berlinwhirling.com

Registrations via mail@berlinwhirling.com

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Contribution:

until 30.11.2025 35€

as of 01.12.2025 45€

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Berlin Whirling Workshops and Sessions at Studio2, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin:​​​​​​​​

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Introduction: 55€, reduced 45€
Session: 45€, reduced 35€
Full workshop: 90€, reduced 70€
Reduced price for students, teens, unemployed and elderly people

Successful registration via payment to Berlin Whirling – Lisa Stertz

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Dates 2026:
Saturday, April 11

Saturday, May 09

Saturday, June 13

Saturday, July 11

Saturday, August 08

Saturday, September 12

Saturday, October 10

Saturday, November 07​

PAST EVENTS:​​

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August 13-17 – Into the vortex, Berlins first whirling intensive with Lisa Stertz and Dhyana Vargas, 90mil 

 

July 27 2025 – Whirling workshop and performance at 8. Berliner Faiths in Tune Festival, ufa Fabrik Berlin

 

July 25, 7pm – LOVE AS AN ACT OF BEING, Lecture & Performance, SomoS Art House, Kottbuser Damm 95, 10967 Berlin

 

July 19/20 – 2nd Berlin Whirling Sufi Weekend with Asal Lebaschi and Ali Kalantary, Studio2 Art Center Bethanien, Berlin

 

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) 

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Sat/Sun,  Aug 10/11 – 1st Berlin Whirling Sufi-Weekend with Rasha Vrede, Studio2 Art Center Bethanien, Berlin

 

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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