Play2c founder Krisana Locke came to Berlin fleeing the ambition and ego of the New York art scene. She wanted to create ‘l'art pour l'art’, and figured Berlin’s creative laboratory - young, experimental, anarchistic, liberating - was just the place. With her friend Ali von Stein she found the loft space at the foot of Oberbaumbrücke in 2008, a 240-squaremeter former flour mill with nine huge windows, and turned it into a high-quality studio.

Now, artists come together on the oiled wooden dance floor for theatre courses, dance lessons, and yoga classes. What they share is a love for creative vision and artistic excellence in theatre, film, and performing arts. Play2c has their own theatre company, which brings together an international crowd of theatre veterans and young talent; English is the lingua franca. And Krisana has now finally found the space where she’s free to make ‘just art’.