Su, 05.07.2026
2-6pm
Concert / Performance Series
Creamcake_1
Creamcake returns to the pool, taking up residence across two Sunday afternoons. The Berlin-based interdisciplinary platform brings together artists whose works move across intimacy, embodiment, fiction, and sound. Each afternoon unfolds as a program of performance, live music, and DJ sets—set against the backdrop of an open-air public pool, where bodies gather, undress, and move.
On July 5, Teo Ala-Ruona presents Play Overlay, a dance for the unnameable self that, in everyday life, is translated into roles through the act of coding ourselves with clothing. The collaboratively developed solo performance asks how our everyday roles can be shaped—and how they can slip away again. The work choreographs the friction between the body’s internal experience and the external layers worn on top of it, framing clothing as a technology that can be applied and discarded layer by layer.
The day continues with a live set from Eddington Again, whose left-field soul with pop sensibilities explore human experience and spirituality through their timeless in the pocket electronic tracks, and a DJ set by Larry. Between performance, live sound, and DJ set, the afternoon moves through states of stripping back, from the inherited to the improvised, from the poolside to the floor.
Photos: Teo Ala-Ruona © Sala Mboup, Eddington Again © Jelly Luise
Credits Teo Ala-Ruona
- Concept, direction, performance: Teo Ala-Ruona
- Choreography: Pauliina Sjöberg
- Sound design: Tuukka Haapakorpi
- Costume design: Ervin Latimer
- Production: Sanna Ritvanen
- Commissioned: James Taylor-Foster and ArkDes in collaboration with MDT as part of Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and Design of Alternate Realities
- Supported by: Zodiak: Center For New Dance, Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Arts Promotion Centre Finland
The event is supported by the Finland Institute.
About the curators
Creamcake (CC) is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary platform negotiating the point of convergence in electronic music, contemporary art, and performance. Distanced from normative social structures, it moves in fluid processes of thought and action, engaging with the social issues of the present through diverse projects. CC organizes exhibitions, performances, concerts, symposia, DJ sets, digital commissions, publishing projects, and workshops. As a queer-feminist nomadic space, CC has cooperated with a variety of clubs, community spaces, and institutions, including but not limited to Berghain, Berlinische Galerie, Gropius Bau, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Klosterruine, OHM, RSO, and Südblock.
About the guests
Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki-based interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance, choreography, theatre, and visual arts. In his work, trans embodiment functions as both an artistic and philosophical framework through which he questions societal conceptions of the body and opens up new perspectives on identity and embodiment. Since 2025, Ala-Ruona has been an Associate Artist at Zodiak – Center for New Dance. His work has been presented internationally, including at the Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice, the Performa Biennial in New York, and the Kiasma in Helsinki.
Eddington Again is a Berlin-based, Los Angeles-born artist whose creative voice was shaped by the social and political realities of his youth in South Central Los Angeles, as well as by the city's underground queer culture. His genre-defying work combines experimental sonic influences with personal and social themes, using music as a medium for resistance, healing, and transformation. He first gained recognition through the projects PRJCTS and Oddience and has performed alongside artists such as Nina Kraviz, Dâm-Funk, Flume, and Charli XCX.
Larry is a Berlin-based artist and DJ whose sets transform human expression into an absurd spectacle of sound, deploying linguistic elements not as communication but as raw emotional force. Larry is co-founder of Creamcake.
Su, 05.07.2026
2-6pm
Concert / Performance Series
Creamcake_1
Creamcake returns to the pool, taking up residence across two Sunday afternoons. The Berlin-based interdisciplinary platform brings together artists whose works move across intimacy, embodiment, fiction, and sound. Each afternoon unfolds as a program of performance, live music, and DJ sets—set against the backdrop of an open-air public pool, where bodies gather, undress, and move.
On July 5, Teo Ala-Ruona presents Play Overlay, a dance for the unnameable self that, in everyday life, is translated into roles through the act of coding ourselves with clothing. The collaboratively developed solo performance asks how our everyday roles can be shaped—and how they can slip away again. The work choreographs the friction between the body’s internal experience and the external layers worn on top of it, framing clothing as a technology that can be applied and discarded layer by layer.
The day continues with a live set from Eddington Again, whose left-field soul with pop sensibilities explore human experience and spirituality through their timeless in the pocket electronic tracks, and a DJ set by Larry. Between performance, live sound, and DJ set, the afternoon moves through states of stripping back, from the inherited to the improvised, from the poolside to the floor.
Photos: Teo Ala-Ruona © Sala Mboup, Eddington Again © Jelly Luise
Credits Teo Ala-Ruona
- Concept, direction, performance: Teo Ala-Ruona
- Choreography: Pauliina Sjöberg
- Sound design: Tuukka Haapakorpi
- Costume design: Ervin Latimer
- Production: Sanna Ritvanen
- Commissioned: James Taylor-Foster and ArkDes in collaboration with MDT as part of Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and Design of Alternate Realities
- Supported by: Zodiak: Center For New Dance, Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Arts Promotion Centre Finland
The event is supported by the Finland Institute.
About the curators
Creamcake (CC) is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary platform negotiating the point of convergence in electronic music, contemporary art, and performance. Distanced from normative social structures, it moves in fluid processes of thought and action, engaging with the social issues of the present through diverse projects. CC organizes exhibitions, performances, concerts, symposia, DJ sets, digital commissions, publishing projects, and workshops. As a queer-feminist nomadic space, CC has cooperated with a variety of clubs, community spaces, and institutions, including but not limited to Berghain, Berlinische Galerie, Gropius Bau, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Klosterruine, OHM, RSO, and Südblock.
About the guests
Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki-based interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance, choreography, theatre, and visual arts. In his work, trans embodiment functions as both an artistic and philosophical framework through which he questions societal conceptions of the body and opens up new perspectives on identity and embodiment. Since 2025, Ala-Ruona has been an Associate Artist at Zodiak – Center for New Dance. His work has been presented internationally, including at the Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice, the Performa Biennial in New York, and the Kiasma in Helsinki.
Eddington Again is a Berlin-based, Los Angeles-born artist whose creative voice was shaped by the social and political realities of his youth in South Central Los Angeles, as well as by the city's underground queer culture. His genre-defying work combines experimental sonic influences with personal and social themes, using music as a medium for resistance, healing, and transformation. He first gained recognition through the projects PRJCTS and Oddience and has performed alongside artists such as Nina Kraviz, Dâm-Funk, Flume, and Charli XCX.
Larry is a Berlin-based artist and DJ whose sets transform human expression into an absurd spectacle of sound, deploying linguistic elements not as communication but as raw emotional force. Larry is co-founder of Creamcake.
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TROPEZ
at Sommerbad Humboldthain
Wiesenstraße 1, 13357 Berlin
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Monday – Sunday
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
