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Foxes have many faces: they are cute and cunning predators, shy and curious at the same time. Free like a cat, but also sociable like a dog. They live in the forest as well as in the city, in the ice and in the desert. They move between worlds, adapt and conquer new places. They have many characteristics and many habitats. They sneak and jump, they bark and sing. They are considered clever, sometimes even magical. Never only good or only bad. They are at home everywhere and there are stories and fairy tales about them in all cultures.
The dance parable “FOXX” follows the trail of this versatile animal. Three performers immerse themselves in the world of the fox and test its abilities, movements and characteristics. They jump and move between the European Reineke and the magical nine-tailed Japanese Kitsune, between fairy tales and manga, traditional dances and K-pop. It will be colorful, fairytale-like, shrill and at the same time shy, sensitive and mysterious.
Choreographer Barbara Fuchs follows the tracks of the animal that gave her her surname. Composer Jörg Ritzenhoff creates atmospheric electro-acoustic soundscapes, Arthur Schopa creates a lively video image layer that interacts with the performers and playwright Charlotte Luise Fechner has written a fox parable for the production, which is also reflected vocally in FOXX.
Tickets:
Online via rausgegangen.de
By mail to karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Children 6 € / performance
Adults 10 € / performance
Dance: Moonjoo Kim, Dennis Alexander Schmitz Film performance and singing: Antonia Ritzenhoff Idea and staging:
Barbara Fuchs Composition: Jörg Ritzenhoff Film and co-choreography: Arthur Schopa Text: Charlotte Luise Fechner
Set design: Odile Foehl, Stefanie Bold, Barbara Fuchs Lighting design: Wolfgang Pütz Dramaturgy: Vivica Bocks Public relations: Kerstin Rosemann Production management and finances: Carina Graf, Selina Ehlen NRW scholarship holder for children’s and youth theater: Diana Treder
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The preliminary research was funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR
Co-production: tanzfuchs PRODUKTION and tanzhaus nrw
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We are opening the doors of the ehrenfeldstudios for a whole weekend and invite you to get to know our program and the location (better)! In workshops for all age groups, you can try out our participatory dance program and get to know our new association members, who will help shape our program from 2025! Various performances will also give you a taste of our event program. In addition to handicrafts and a flea market in our courtyard, there will of course also be coffee and cake, so stay and linger!
Step Up & Connect program:
Saturday, October 12
- 12 – 1:30 pm: WRITING WITH THE BODY
A dance workshop with Emanuele Soavi for everyone aged 15 and over
- 2 – 3:30 pm: BFF – Friendship and Body
A dance workshop with Konnective, for teenagers and young adults
- 4 pm: CONNECT Coffee & TeaFrom 5 pm: WITH US. Karel meets David
Performance by Silke Z. with David Winking and Karel Vaněk
- MOMENTOLOGY
Performance by Caroline Simon
- 6 pm: WE !
Mixed-age workshop with Silke Z. and Hanna Held
- 7 pm: CONNECT finger food
- 9 pm: LET’S DANCE – Afterparty
Sunday, October 13th
- 12 noon: One moment, please!
Creative children’s dance for children aged 4 – 7 (45 min.) with Caroline Simon
- 1:30 – 3 p.m.: The Dance Button
A dance workshop with Ido Grinberg for ages 14 and up
- 3 p.m.: CONNECT Coffee & Tea
- 4 pm: “sOlo – a refusal” (AT)
An exhibition of works by performing:group
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From October 2nd to 4th 2024, venues in Cologne will open their doors for three days and the city becomes a hotspot for dance, theatre, performance and contemporary circus. You can find the entire festival programme here: https://fddk.de/programm/
On October 4th, it will be the turn of the Ehrenfeld area – and we look forward to welcoming you here too. From 8 pm, we’ll be showing a different performance every hour:
8 pm: MIT UNS! (David meets Hanna)
A dance performance by Silke Z. with David Winking and Hanna Held
Photo: © Sirpa Wilner
Hanna and David meet. The two performers, who differ in their ability and (dance) biography, visualise the diversity of human bodies. They trace their physical landscapes, measure their forms and strengths and encounter each other in a very human way.
9 pm: HNSL/GRTL (excerpt)
A dance piece by performing:group for everyone from the age of 13
Photo: © Christopher Horne
HNSL/GRTL is an intuitive dance piece. An absurd ‘coming of age’ scenario between fairy tale, science fiction and absurd theatre. Two versions of a single cell must break out of their familiar patterns to find new strategies for old problems. It is a special world through which Bianca and Francesco move. A world after our own. A fairytale-like microcosm with its own laws and rules. Perhaps a parallel universe. Nothing seems to exist here. Except for themselves. How are you supposed to find your way around here? How do you create a home for yourself? And what can that look like? The two of them have to come up with something: They have to set up a new camp every day and find a common language. Fun quickly turns into bitter seriousness. And wait a minute… Isn’t there a witch in every good fairy tale?
10 pm: MOMENTOLOGY
A dance improvisation performance
Photo: © Sabine Große-Wortmann
MOMENTOLOGY explores the moment between the lines. Caroline Simon moves between humour and poetry, between the expected and the surprising, between body and language, between the certain and the possible. In collaboration with Silke Z. (sound) and Garlef Keßler (light), the performance is created live in front of the audience.
11 pm: Eye Contact
A dance solo by Ido Grinberg
Photo: © David Kaplan
What remains in our bodies when all screens, filters and masks are removed? How does ubiquitous technology affect us, even when we put the screens aside and reconnect with our inner selves? What impact does technology have on our bodies? A solo that explores the technological takeover of our private space in contrast to the longing for the magical simplicity of life.
12 am: Memo
A short holiday with Konnective
Photo: © Konnective
Summer 2024 in Grosseto, Italy. Three performers reflect on their friendship while on holiday together. They negotiate jealousy and conflicts between friends, forms of care and their limits in a society centred on romantic relationships.
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The performance 1,000,000 ways to try and stop the rain was created as a touchdown dance piece by Angus Balbernie, who performs on stage together with blind dancer Stuart Jackson. Angus and Stuart speak of darkness and light, of silence and noise, of their dreams and sometimes of owls. The performance is an improvised experiment and poses questions on the themes of “otherness” and “growing older”.
On Saturday, 21 September, there will be an additional introduction before the performance at 5 pm as well as the panel discussion ‘Touch, Dance & Disability’ with Katy Dymoke (artistic director of Touchdown Dance) and guests at 6 pm.
DATES
Fri, 20. September | 8 pm
Sat, 21. September
5 pm: Physical introduction with Katy Dymoke (artistic director of Touchdown Dance)
6 pm: Panel discussion ‘Touch, Dance & Disability – Perspectives on inclusion in cultural work’.
8 pm: Performance
Admission: Sliding scale 10-20 €
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
The guest performance series LOOK for dance art and diversity is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.
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KEIN ENDE by Carla Jordão with Sônia Mota
KEIN ENDE embodies special moments in the life of 76-year-old artist Sônia Mota. She states: “(…) in my current decade of life, my mind is beginning to adapt to my body.”
MOMENTOLOGY #5 and #6
Dance improvisation solo by Caroline Simon
MOMENTOLOGY explores the moment between the lines. Caroline Simon moves between humor and poetry, between the sure and the maybe. She creates the performance live in front of the audience. Every evening is different!
DATES
Fri, 13 September | 8 pm
Sat, 14 September | 8 pm
Admission: Sliding scale 10-20 €
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
