Glamour & Resistance is an immersive ballet performance by the Berlin Ballett Company in its developmental phase: moving, multisensory, and deeply engaging. Over four distinct scenes—staged indoors and in open-air settings—the audience moves alongside the dancers through a dynamic fusion of film, dance, and sound.
The project explores both the relationship between performers and audience and the artistic interplay between ballet, film, theater, and spoken word. It is a dialogue between art forms—driven by movement, text, archival footage, and the immediacy of shared physical presence. All of this unfolds within an open, walk-through format that dissolves the boundaries between viewer and scene.
At its centre is Marlene Dietrich—film icon, style legend, lover, mother, political figure. Inspired by her life and her outspoken rejection of the Nazi regime, this performance sheds light on the many layers of a complex woman, including her glamour, defiance, personal freedom—and the strength it took to say no.
This is not a biographical portrait but an empathetic exploration of a courageous figure who, in a time ruled by fear, refused to compromise.
What does it mean to be in the public eye and still have the courage to take a stand? How can dance capture the tension between intimacy and exposure, myth and humanity?
The performance culminates in an exclusive open-air screening of a documentary about Marlene Dietrich, being shown where history still lingers: in the historic studios where Dietrich once stood before the camera.
