After several attempts with various projects my solo project "Register" finally received funding in 2009. Unfortunately the cultural departments of the districts Pankow and Prenzlauer Berg then went bust and the money for my project was cut. I was forced to find other ways and means, after all: The show must go on… Many questions arose in this process, one of them particularly stubborn: "What does one dance cost?" Ricardo de Paula

Dance for Sale attempts to find an answer to this question and puts a focus on art as business by thematising dance as a "product".

The outrage over the "gob garbage" in the women’s extremely anti-modern utterances remained a luxury for me to the end. Feridun Zaimoğlu

Black Virgins consists of monologues based on interviews which Feridun Zaimoğlu and Günther Senkel held with young neo-muslim women in Germany. It was nominated one of the best seven plays in 2007 at the festival Mülheimer Theatertage. In Neco Çelik’s theatre debut the Black Virgins ask why Allah is not a foreigner and why godly crimes are necessary, how fluffy Islam can be halal and why you wake up with fleas after having sex with the godless. And last but not least they look for the perfect symbiosis: of sex and Islam. They follow the pious thesis that nakedness does not mean faithlessness and to be fully bandaged does not mean being totally subjected to God.