Young RZt

“Art only gets interesting after we find ourselves standing in front of something that we are unable to immediately explain completely.” Christoph Schlingensief.

We are enablers in the positive sense of the word. We provide spaces for encounters and experiments and ensure that these spaces can be experienced with all senses. We do this by offering opportunities for young people with and without disabilities to come together and design and shape performative environments. We also use theater to make young people with and without disabilities more aware of the rich diversity in our society.

Young RambaZamba is part of the Arbeitskreis Theaterpädagogik der Berliner Bühnen (Theater Education Working Group of Berlin Theaters). The Theatre Education Working Group, which was established over 20 years ago, is an alliance of theater educators from more than 20 theaters, playhouses, etc. in Berlin. The group’s members meet every month to review the current artistic and social discourse and examine the latest trends. They also discuss art education and the promotion of the arts at the member organizations and develop new ideas to improve these.

Are you between the ages of 15 and 25? Would you like to dance and experiment in our theater laboratory? Then join the young inclusive ensemble at the RambaZamba Theater (RZt)! We meet every Tuesday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Kulturzentrum Königstadt.

The various formats we’ve developed make it possible to use the RambaZamba Theater as a place for learning outside the conventional school environment in a setting that also focuses on inclusive participation. We offer the following formats for students in school Sections I+ II for all productions staged at the RambaZamba Theater: Preparation and follow-up discussions, workshops in school and in the theater, training courses on inclusive theater work, and tours of the RambaZamba Theater. We also offer our Offensive Kulturbus program in order to make it easier for you to visit the theater and participate in workshops outside of school.

The RambaZamba Theater can also come visit you at your school. Our Audiowalks allow you to get to know our ensemble in an interactive format and get an impression of what goes on at our theater and how our ensemble rehearses. Duration: approx. 1 hour. You can also take our Probenklasse (Rehearsal Class) to learn even more about how we develop our productions. 

This program, which is run by theater education experts, allows students in school Sections I+ II to develop their own inclusive follow-up discussion formats for productions staged at the RambaZamba Theater. Here, the experts teach students the skills they need to initiate and implement the developed formats for other groups of students of the same age. The program runs for around half the school year, with two meetings held each month.

TuSch3 is a RambaZamba Theater pilot project. TuSch, which stands for “Theater and School,” initiates partnerships between schools and theaters in Berlin. In our TuSch3 project, the RambaZamba Theater is cooperating with two schools: a special school (Förderschule) and a secondary school (Gymnasium). The project runs for three years and ends with students from the two schools performing a play that they developed together. 

During the current school year, we are working on the topic of “Water” with Theater AG at Johann-Gottfried-Herder Gymnasium and the DS Course at Carl-von-Linné Schule. Students are approaching the topic in an interdisciplinary manner as well. During the production

RambaZamba Theater performances are recommended for all teenagers aged 14 or older. If you would like to attend one of our performances as a group or a school class, we offer various programs to accompany your theater experience. The formats we’ve developed here make it possible to use the RambaZamba Theater as a place for learning outside the conventional school environment in a setting that also focuses on inclusive participation.

We meet up after the show and talk about what we’ve seen and experienced. What was presented – and how and in what way? What were our favorite moments from the performance? Was there anything we didn’t like?

These workshops present the practical side of the performance and its topics and offer an insight into the history of the RambaZamba Theater and the aesthetic techniques we utilize.

What conditions are necessary to ensure the success of inclusive theater? This workshop combines theoretical and practical aspects of inclusion.