Photo by Pauline Kortmann
14 - 17 MAY 2026
at Uferstudios Berlin - Studio 1
Over 4 days Sara Lu, Soroa Lear, Sebastian Abarbanell &. more artists will transform Studio 1 at Uferstudios Berlin into a living space for creativity in performance, movement and collaboration. Each day we will share different offerings, performances & workshops.
We are a collective of queer multidisciplinary performance artists coming together to create a four-day platform of shared expression, experimentation, and support. Through multidisciplinary performances and movement workshops we invite the public into a space where creative process and presence is valued over perfection, and where collaboration is at the heart of creation.
After a beautiful and successful first edition of GLITTER IN THE CRACKS this past August we are excited to return with a completely new program in 2026.
This platform is rooted in a spirit of resourcefulness and mutual care. With minimal production and shared resources, we focus on bringing each artist’s vision to life through collective effort. Every member of the group is both creator and supporter—performing, facilitating, documenting, holding space, or assisting behind the scenes as needed. It’s a living model of artistic interdependence.
Throughout the four days, audiences can expect a diverse and evolving program that includes drag, dance, performance art, long durational works, pop culture references, music, and participatory experiences.
GLITTER IN THE CRACKS responds to a broader context of limited resources with a clear message: creativity thrives in community. Art does not vanish without grand stages or large budgets; it emerges from connection, intention, and presence. Through this platform, we celebrate art as a way of living, perceiving, reflecting, and engaging with the world around us.
What unites us is a shared belief in the value of artistic practice—in its many forms—as a way to explore identity, foster dialogue, and imagine new possibilities. We welcome audiences not just as viewers, but as participants in a dynamic, ever-changing space of expression and exchange.
This is an invitation: to witness, to move, to feel, and to be part of something that unfolds in real time.
Photo by Pauline Kortmann
PROGRAM
WORKSHOPS
PERFORMANCES
THURSDAY 14 MAY 2026
19:00
Performance by Lulu & Eros in Furs
*Soroa Lear & Sebastian Abarbanell will no longer perform on this evening
FRIDAY 15 MAY 2026
12:00 - 15:00
Threshold Practice
Movement Based Workshop by Eros In Furs
SATURDAY 16 MAY 2026
20:30
Room of Eccentricities
Performance by Sebastian Abarbanell as Maximise
SUNDAY 17 MAY 2026
14:00 - 17:00
The Embodied Poem
Workshop by Sara Lu
18:00 - 21:00
The place where we’ve been
Durational Performance
by Sara Lu, Soroa Lear & Sebastian Abarbanell
PRICING
WORKSHOPS
22€
PERFORMANCES
Pay what you can €10 / €15 / €25
If you are struggling financially but would like to attend GLITTER IN THE CRACKS please reach out to us via contact@sebastianabarbanell.com
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Photo by Tian
SARA LU (they/she)
Sara Lu (b. 1985, Spain) is a Berlin-based artist, performer, and choreographer trained in Ballet, contemporary dance, and Butoh. They work as a movement facilitator, performing artist, and choreographer. They have been an in-house choreographer at RambaZamba Theater, an inclusive theater employing artists with disabilities since 2016. Their practice explores authentic expression and the connection between inner experience and physical form, drawing from somatic awareness, voice, and diverse movement practices. They are part of KDV Performance Group since 2019 and have perform under Kiani’s Del Valle direction in “El Tunel” and “Te veo en el Horizonte”. Since 2024, Sara has also been performing as a drag creature under the name “Lulu”, expanding their artistic exploration into the realms of gender fluidity, transformation, and radical embodiment.
SOROA LEAR (she)
Soroa Lear is a queer Cuban-American dancer, performer, and writer based in Berlin. She completed her studies in dance and comparative literature at Reed College, which sparked her interest in the intersections of movement and critical theory. She sees performance as a way to break hearts and make people laugh, connecting to the dramatic and the subtle, the ugly and the beautiful. She has worked for the Staatsoper Berlin, Deva Schubert, Aru Tormann, and Wojciech Kosma amongst others, as well as many nightclubs with many drag queens. She has also made several of her own works, including ‘THIS IS A LOVE STORY’, set to be performed for a third time as part of the 2026 OUTNOW! Festival. Her written works have been published by Penny Press and Confluence Journal.
Photo by Olesya Fedulova
Photo by Sara Herrlander
SEBASTIAN ABARBANELL (they/he)
My name is Sebastian Abarbanell (aka Maximise) and I am a queer artist living in Berlin. My work is based in movement and dance spanning performance, creation, facilitation, and drag. My mission is to challenge oppressive power structures—hetero- and cisnormativity, patriarchy, and whiteness—by nurturing and amplifying queer practices and their accessibility. I see queerness as both identity and ideology, fostering self-liberation beyond queer-identifying bodies.
My distinct movement practice is embedded in somatics, groove, trance and authentic movement inspired by queer club and rave culture, spirituality, and contemporary movement and dance practices based in improvisation and authentic expression. Much of this is channeled into the facilitation of my weekly movement sessions VIBRANT BODY at Tanzfabrik, a practice that is meant to make movement and its endless benefits accessible to all bodies through an individual and collective sensorial approach.
As a performer, I have toured internationally with artists such as Sasha Waltz, Sidra Bell and Kianí del Valle. My creations have been presented and honored globally and repeatedly funded in Germany. I teach professionals, students, teenagers and amateurs at institutions like Trinity Laban, NYU Tisch and Dutch National Ballet. Since 2024 I have expanded my performance practice through the art of drag under the name Maximise which has shaped my artistic and personal identity through radical embodiment of queerness.
www.sebastianabarbanell.com / @sebastian.abarbanell @queenmaximise
TUAN LY (he)
Born in Saarland, Germany, and currently based in Dresden, Tuan is an interdisciplinary dance artist.
He trained at London Contemporary Dance School, earning an MA in Advanced Dance Studies, and performed with choreographer Maresa von Stockert from 2014 to 2018.
He then joined the international tour of Heiner Goebbels’ Everything that Happened and Would Happen (2018–2020, 2023–2025).
From 2020 to 2025, Tuan was a member of Landesbühnen Sachsen’s dance ensemble, performing across opera, theatre, and dance, as well as in cross-media and outreach projects. He continues to appear with the theatre as a guest artist.
As a freelance performer, he has worked with J Neve Harrington, Kasia Zaremba-Byrne, Rui Xu, Willi Dorner, Yotam Peled, and Theater der Klänge, among others. He regularly collaborates with Sebastian Abarbanell as both performer and creative contributor.
