The Imaginary Museum is Berlin’s only series dedicated to improvisation across practices – primarily in music and dance yet open to all fields. Performances feature invited guests and The Performance Group, an evolving ensemble who meet at the exploratorium that same afternoon. If you want to take part in the Performance group, you can register here.
The Instrument makes performances emerging from the collaborative work of choreographer Maya M. Carroll and composer Roy Carroll. They create work that is unflinchingly sensual, characterised by an almost molecular tactility encountering fantastic viscerality. The Instrument works in close collaboration with a diverse circle of artists, taking an integrated approach that radiates outwards from a clear movement and sound aesthetic, permeating all aspects of the work, scenography, lighting design, graphic and visual art. Maya and Roy have been working together since 2006, creating over 40 works for the stage. They formed The Instrument in 2011. They are Berlin based while devising and presenting work internationally.
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The Performance Group is an ensemble of dancers and musicians with various levels of experience. The ever evolving personnel meet in the ‘Improvisation in music dance and elsewhere’ workshop that same afternoon.
Tam Thi Pham is a Vietnamese multimedia composer and improviser based in Hamburg, Germany. By combining technology and tradition, poetics and politics, the sonic and the visual, she seeks to develop a mode of expression in which music and performance become inseparable. Pham has explored the unique sounds and extended techniques of the đàn bầu, a traditional Vietnamese instrument, incorporating them into free improvisation and composition. Her works are part of an ongoing journey of exploring individuality while attempting to connect with the surrounding social environment, and have been presented at festivals across Asia and Europe. Since 2025, she has been chairwoman of Hörbar e.V., joining a dedicated team to present experimental music concerts in Hamburg.
https://tamthipham.com/
Andrew Wass is a dancer, performer, and researcher whose practice blurs the boundaries between empirical inquiry and embodied experience. With a background in Biochemistry from UC San Diego and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University, Wass situates his inquiries in the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and process-oriented concert dance. He has explored and taught contemporary technique, Contact Improvisation, Ensemble Thinking for over two decades. He frames movement as both a site of investigation and a generative medium, dissolving the divide between analytic method and lived sensation. Wass has performed with dance luminaries Jess Curtis, Ray Chung, Nancy Stark Smith, Nina Martin, Ka Rustler, and Chris Aiken, and has taught at festivals, universities, and studios in cities such as Berlin, Freiburg, Copenhagen, Marfa, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Berkeley, Oberlin, Warsaw, and New York. An avid collaborator, he is a member of the Lower Left Performance Collective, based in Marfa, TX.
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