In the organizer's words:

At the suggestion of Shabnam Pravesh, Christine Abdelnour (France/Lebanon, saxophone) and Yorgos Dimitriadis (Greece, drums) will meet on stage for the first time in January '26 to merge their independent sound worlds in an improvisational dialog full of energy, nuances and unexpected twists.

Christine Abdelnour was born in 1978 and lives in France, but is of Lebanese origin. After discovering improvised music in 1997, she began teaching herself the alto saxophone and experimenting with sounds.

Within a few years, she developed her very own language, open to microtonality and contemporary techniques. Far removed from narrative effects, her playing resembles electronic music. She approaches sound as a malleable material, rich in concrete textures that combine breath, silence and immersive sounds. She plays with the effects of compression and expansion of sound and likes to explore the limits of sound in search of electric pressure, saturation, acoustic distortion or feedback.

Christine has released more than fifteen CDs and collaborated with various artists from the fields of visual arts, dance, theater and poetry.

Yorgos Dimitriadis, born in Thessaloniki in 1964, has lived in Berlin since 2006. His current projects include: KOPFKINO (solo for percussion & microphones), duos with Achim Kaufmann, Ignaz Schick, Andrea Parkins, Michael Thieke, Floros Floridis, and the ensembles GLUE (with Tom Arthurs, Miles Perkin), GRIX (with Antonis Anissegos, Floros Floridis), KERN (with Edith Steyer, Matthias Müller), FABRIC (with Frank Paul Schubert, Mike Majkowski); and BeingFive (with Andrea Parkins/Axel Dörner/Lori Freedman/Christopher Williams).

He has performed as a soloist and in collaboration with a number of renowned international artists and has released recordings on the Relative Pitch, Jazzwerkstatt, NoBusiness, Creative Sources, FMR, Trouble In The East and Evil Rabbit labels.

STAGE off LIMITS is a series of cuba kultur

Price information:

12€ Normal price 8€ Reduced admission is free for under 20s