With Sulle Sponde / AdK Berlin, the Forward Dance Company of Lofft – Das Theater opens the exhibition The Great Repair with the collaboration with the Goethe-Institute and enters into a dialogue with its highly symbolic venue, the Akademie der Künste (AdK) in Hanseatenweg. Its architecture symbolizes the ideas of democracy and transparency that prevailed in post-war West Germany. At the invitation of the Arch+curators, the Forward Dance Company dances its way through the building's spaces, exposing the achievements and failures of 1950s architecture.

Following performances of Sulle sponde del lago – Am Ufer des Sees in Basel and Leipzig and an adaptation for the opening of the German Pavilion at this year's Architecture Biennale in Venice, the dancers of the FDC, together with the Swiss choreographer Alessandro Schiattarella and the artistic project director Gustavo Fijalkow, open up the spaces of the building, through an adaptation of the piece created especially for the Academy of Arts, open spaces of renewal and care, repair and mindfulness, fragility and perfection: Spaces where our ideas of norms, narratives and nations can meet in new ways.

Sulle Sponde / AdK Berlin is an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and the Forward Dance Company of Lofft – Das Theater s part of the programme series of the Goethe-Institut Performing Architecture, in collaboration with the choreographer Alessandro Schiattarella. It takes a look at the performative dimension of architecture and its intersections and seams with choreography and performing arts, urban development and civil society.