After the success of ‘Chaconne’ from their ‘Die Stadt im Klavier’ series, the virtuoso jazz pianist Aki Takase and acclaimed dancer Yui Kawaguchi are back in Berlin’s Sophiensaele [READ MORE]

Every year the world’s top choirs, orchestras, conductors and solo musicians descend on the picturesque city of Dresden for one of Europe’s most spectacular classical music events.

The Dresden Music Festival, taking place this year from May 11 to June 2 with a special focus on British music, is recommended not only for its illustrious musicians [READ MORE]

Whether melting white chocolate, bursting soap bubbles or runny paste, Katrin Wegemann‘s sculptures are anything but static. [READ MORE]

Just six months have passed since our feature on Berlin’s ‘dining revolution’, which explored the city’s supper clubs, nightclub restaurants and streetfood stands, but already so much has changed. [READ MORE]

How do you fancy attending a show where you, the audience, become the show? We’re not just talking audience participation here, but an audience of one, lying on a couch, having a performance played out on his or her body. This is just one of the performances taking place throughout May during the third annual ‘Month of Performance Art – Berlin’. Over 150 international artists are taking part in the festival, and the acts –  which range from video installations to dance to live tattooing – are as diverse as the locations.

Performance art is not everybody’s cup of tea, but just imagine what would happen if performance artists did not have such platforms [READ MORE]

“When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky,” says award-winning British virtuoso violinist Daniel Hope. On Tuesday 30 April, Hope will be in Berlin to perform his most recent album, Spheres, at the former public baths in Wedding (Stadtbad Berlin) which is now an exciting venue for urban art, culture and music. The album is inspired by the ancient philosophical notion that the movement of the planets and other celestial bodies and their mathematical relationships produces a form of music, or ’musica universalis’ [READ MORE]

Berlin’s art market may not be as established or professional as the likes of London and New York, but there’s no denying that the city boasts some rather extraordinary galleries. [READ MORE]

This wonderfully odd and little known curio is a film that is difficult to categorise – is it a crime melodrama, a romantic drama, a screwball comedy, a musical, or a social commentary? Perhaps a little of all of these, and a taste of the sort of flavour the German émigrés working in Hollywood before the war would lend to the films they had a hand in from there on in.

The pairing of emigres from Nazi Berlin, Fritz Lang, who directed the film (his third in Hollywood), and Kurt Weill, who wrote the music, is proof positive that the German film makers who came to Hollywood added something quite new to the mix [READ MORE]

Hosted by Berlin’s legendary F95 Store, the twice-yearly ‘Designer Sale’ [READ MORE]