Berlin Tracks: Kunal Lahiry & Freddie Ballentine

“Our People” are back with us – just as glamorous as they were two years ago, but this time in the Great Hall. Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry and Grammy Award winner Freddie Ballentine, together with Berlin’s voguing community, create a polyphonic space for queerness, remembrance, resistance and self-assertion. What originated in the ballrooms of New York’s Black and Latinx communities meets classical lieder, spirituals, the “AIDS Quilt Songbook” and Nina Simone. The performers reveal themselves, their bodies and their personal stories. The audience, too, is once again invited to make th