Roupa Velha is a performance and video installation created within the framework of the laboratory course of the Master’s programme in Theatre Pedagogy at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin). The starting point of the work is the impulse to develop a short scene from the material of old clothing. The garments used were donated, inherited, found, or relocated, and they carry traces of their journeys.

Clothing is understood as a materiality that preserves memories of bodies, time, and movement. Performance and video explore the choreographies that emerge when garments circulate, changing hands, functions, and meanings. Through gesture, narrative, and imagery, Roupa Velha poses a poetic question: Does clothing dance through the city at night? Yes – while we sleep, Roupa Velha performs through Berlin.

Performers and co-creation:
Anna Helena Schmid comes from civil engineering and works in theatre pedagogy as well as in public space, focusing on encounter and participation.
Emily Tromp performs in theatre, writes queer poetry, and explores transformative spaces between public realm and stage.
Luka Modu is a theatre artist and performer from Gießen, working in the fields of performance, dramaturgy, and sound design.
Roxana Khamg Muñoz is a Chilean actress and performer, Master’s student in Theatre Pedagogy at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), with a focus on theatre, movement, and folklore.

Ana Luiza Anjos is a Brazilian actress and performer based in Berlin. She is trained in theatre and dance and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Theatre and Education at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin). Her work explores the relationship between body and narrative through interdisciplinary and collective creative processes.

In Brazil, she co-founded the Faminta Ensemble together with other actors, whose most recent work engaged with selected fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. She is a recipient of the Klauss Vianna Dance Award in São Paulo and has worked as an actress and dancer in productions such as Tiros em Osasco (directed by Yara de Novaes), Silêncios (directed by Marina Tenório), among others.