Now I know that there's a lot of cynicism about Christmas.ย Due mainly to the massive commercialisation of the whole thing; due to the fact that not many of us are Christians anymore, as it reduces itself bit by bit to the status of a weird cult that got big in the...
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Getting your Tassels to twirl – It’s Week 3 at the Burlesque Course
Over half way through my Berlin Burlesque academy experience and the girls and I were hit with our hardest challenge - nipple tassels. Now it's one thing to strip down to a bare minimum in a room full of women, it's another to successfully get your tassels to twirl....
Latent Dreams at English Theatre Berlin
IndieBerlin reviews a play from Katrine Turner titledย Latent Dreams. So how would world without capitalism look like? The English Theatre Berlin is one of the city's most untapped resources for theatre and performance art. They often produce hard-hitting pieces or...
Alternative Berlin Fashion World Fit for Duty – at Arena this Sunday
After the BAFW being cancelled last minute during the Fashion Week, all the amazing and inspiring talent of Berlin's up and coming scene of independent fashion designers were left with models all dressed up and nowhere to go...but they're not going to take that sort...
Chloe Gale does Bread & Butter with dollops of jam
There's nothing more wonderful than receiving a press pass for an event you've been dying to go for. And Bread & Butter did not disappoint. The Zalando team pulled out all the stops to ensure it was the coolest and most stylish event of the Berlin calendar. I...
Berlin Burlesque Week #3: Essential, quintessential burlesque and a giant penis, it’s the Full Moon Cabaret!
The wild, the whit and the full-blown madness. A night of flawless burlesque. The Full Moon Cabaret lives up to its reputation. Down a quiet alleyway off Mehringdamm and up three flights of stairs, Freudenzimmer is well hidden away, but tonight's fierce performers...
Berlin Burlesque Week in full swing! Report & Pics from BIG Tickle & Der Grรผne Engel
Mondays are generally pretty shit, right? Tuesdays are hardly better. Well they certainly weren't this week with the grand openingย of the Berlin Burlesque Week 2017. We sentย Chloeย with her quill to theย Ballhaus, confident that the Big Tickleย would deliver on its...
Berlin’s barmiest and most brilliant burlesque night: Bananas Dada Club Review
Berliners didnโt invent the cabaret, but they nailed it. The Dadaists didnโt invent photomontage, they just made it cool. Bana Banana wasnโt the first person to spot the similarity between a banana and a penis, but boy she breathes new life into aย timeless gag. The...
Toast Hawaii – new designer market opens its doors this weekend in P’Berg
IndieBerlin: What is the market about? The market as well as the whole location will be a mixture of fairy-tale / circus freakshow, apocalypse now, coupled with high class fashion, new trends and much heart blood. IndieBerlin: What is so special about the...
Susie Kahlich is Pretty Deadly: Self-defence for women, by women
โMost self-defence courses are taught by men, and most women's workshops too. But there are some everyday experiences that men will just never get.โ Pretty Deadly is an organisation that doesnโt just teach self-defence to women: it teaches self-defence for women....
indieBerlin – The Photos Exhibition: The best of the Berlin music scene in pictures
Experience the best music and burlesque moments over the past years in a new indieBerlin photo exhibition - vernissage on 18.2 at the Music and Lifestyle Hotel nhow Berlin on Stralauer Allee 3. We're very excited to announce our upcoming indieBerlin exhibtion, aptly...
Dancing With Wolf: A Conversation with Mohamad Al Halabi
A conversation with the choreographer/producer of โDance Factory,โ a new Berlin dance film centered on the Syrian refugee experience. I just got off the phone with Mohamad Al Halabi, aka โWolf,โ a Berlin-based dancer/choreographer from Syria. We had a brief and...