Tilo Weber & Min Yoon

At the be kind Festival Berlin, these two artists meet for the first time: Tilo Weber, a drummer working between composition and free improvisation, and Min Yoon, a post-/Butoh dancer and performance artist.

Here, experimental percussion collides with physical performance. Tilo Weber’s precise, textural rhythms encounter Min Yoon’s impulsive movements; structure and spontaneity intertwine in real time. Everything revolves around resonance, response, and the exploration of in-between spaces—between control and surrender, movement and stillness.

What emerges is a dialogue as unpredictable as it is immediate, in which music and dance continuously influence one another and shift boundaries. A one-time experiment that makes the first encounter of two distinct artistic languages visible and audible.

TILO WEBER
Drummers are often recognized for being loud. Tilo Weber is quiet—and yet possesses an exceptional presence. He plays with nuance and from a composer’s perspective, where improvisation and composition flow seamlessly into one another. Since his debut album Animate Repose (2016), he has worked with ensembles such as Four and Five Fauns, and released the solo album Rilke Revisited (2020), in which he accompanies Rilke’s poetry solely on drums. Across all his projects, Weber emphasizes musical interconnections that shape collective performance, using the drum kit as an expressive foundation for the sound colors of his fellow musicians.

MIN YOON
“Not for the attention-driven economy”—Min Yoon is a post-/Butoh dancer and performance artist creating intimate, surreal, and psychophysical performances and moments of intensified emotion. Min’s work combines powerful imagery, physicality, silence, and ritual, exploring involuntary and subconscious movement through impulsive improvisation—seeking difficult truths beyond language and learned social knowledge.

Their performances have been supported by the National Performance Network (NPN) in Germany, the German Dance Association, Musikfonds, KulttuuriKauppila in Finland, the City of Oakland, the Battery Club in San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation. Min has also been a fellow at the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U Berlin) and a scholarship holder of the artcorps program at the Tamalpa Institute.