Why do humans have dogs? What do humans learn from their dogs? How do humans perceive dogs – and how do dogs perceive us?
What does it mean to be wild, domesticated, or feral?
What symbolic meanings do dogs carry within human cultures?

At the TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater, theatre director and author Isabella Sedlak, together with dog trainer and walker Constanze Gülle, opens her ongoing artistic research to the public – with videos, conversations, and performative moments exploring the coexistence of human and dog.

Isabella Sedlak is a guest researcher within anatomia publica – open stage for scientific, aesthetic, and social research practices at the TA T.

The Pack: A Choreography of Companionship is an artistic research project that follows Berlin-based dog trainer and walker Constanze Gülle as she leads a temporary pack of up to thirteen dogs from urban apartments into the Grunewald forest. In this in-between space – between city and forest, domestication and wildness – a fluid, multispecies choreography unfolds. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of the Companion Species, the project explores how dogs and humans co-create social dynamics, roles, and meaning beyond language.

Through video recordings, movement studies, and performative analysis, dog walking becomes legible as a form of embodied direction and collective improvisation. In dialogue with theatre, choreography, and queer theory, the research focuses on questions of care, guidance, and co-presence. The TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater becomes a stage of social anatomy, where The Pack is not dissected but observed, sensed, and reflected upon – as a model for queer connectedness and alternative forms of coexistence.

#QueerMultispecies / #SocialChoreographies / #EthicsOfCoPresence / #ForestAsStage / #AnimalAgency

An invitation to dogs and their humans to create a temporary space in which an artistic multispecies project at the TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater becomes tangible.

Paz Ponce – Curator for Public Programmes & Outreach, TA T

Program | Free Admission

Dogs are warmly invited. Please keep them on a short leash; muzzles if required.

Thursday, October 16, 6–9 pm
Opening with live music by François Regis

Friday, October 17, 2–9 pm
7 pm Talk (DE) with Constanze Gülle “Rumstreunern – Calmness, Responsibility and Awareness”

Saturday, October 18, 2–5 pm
Storytelling Circle – How did this dog come into my life?

TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Nord, Haus 3
Philippstr. 13, 10115 Berlin

To participate in the Storytelling Circle – How did this dog come into my life?, please register in advance as places are limited:
Email: anatomiapublica.tat@hu-berlin.de / by phone: +49 (0)30 2093 46625

Isabella Sedlak

is an award-winning director and author working at the intersection of theatre, film, and performance. Her works reflect social structures and question power relations, gender issues, and historical narratives. She studied in Vienna and Southampton and expanded her training through international collaborations. Her productions have been presented at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Schauspiel Dortmund, ITZ Tübingen, Theater Drachengasse, and Werk X-Petersplatz. In Vienna, she founded the collective Bauer+Baum, with which she realized projects in the independent scene. Her works include Schäfchen im Trockenen, Im Office, and europa verschwindet…. At the Maxim Gorki Theater, she directed KRAMPUS: PELZ UND PUDERZUCKER, Wenn Schwarz-Blau die Antwort ist, wie blöd war die Frage dann? and FROM HELL WITH LOVE. In the current season, she presents the new piece BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA together with the Palestinian-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid. In addition to her stage work, she writes screenplays and essays from a feminist and intersectional perspective.
Web: www.isabellasedlak.com / @isabella.sedlak

Constanze Gülle – Rumstreunern: Dog Training, Behavioural Counselling and Dog Walking in Berlin

Constanze Gülle is a dog trainer, dog walker and educator. Having grown up in the countryside, she has been surrounded by dogs since childhood – as social companions, learning partners and personalities with their own expressions. With Rumstreunern, she offers dog training, behavioural counselling and dog walking in Berlin, promoting a harmonious and respectful coexistence between humans and dogs. Today, she leads dog groups through Berlin’s Grunewald forest with calmness, respect and attentiveness. In her work, she combines pedagogical experience with a mindful, queer perspective on human–animal relationships, creating spaces in which dogs and their humans can perceive and learn from one another.

Web: www.rumstreunern.org / @rumstreunern