How many plastic cups do we use in the course of our life? Two performers explore the story of our peculiar evolution and dig into the complexity of the topic “ecological intelligence”. Along the way, they keep raising new questions and find a steadily growing pile of trash.Using a mix of animated drawings, dance and sound scapes, TRASHedy takes an honest and humorous look at our freedom of choice and consumerism. Because everything we do has an influence. Somewhere.
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CREDITS Produced by performing:group and tanzhaus nrw Dance: Marie-Lena Kaiser or Daniel Mathéus or Marcela Ruiz Quintero or Julia Mota Carvalho Concept and direction: Leandro Kees Production development: Leandro Kees, Daniel Mathéus, Martin Rascher Dramaturgy: Daniel Mathéus, Leandro Kees Dramaturgical collaboration: Julia Mota Carvalho
Sound composition & video: Martin Rascher
BARRIEREFREIHEIT
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Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available.
In collaboration with Ayberk Esen, ehrenfeldstudios invites you to a professional training class in contemporary dance. A rotating roster of regional and international instructors leads the classes, bringing diverse artistic perspectives, training methods, and movement approaches. The program is designed for dance students and professional dancers and provides a space for ongoing practice and artistic development.
Participation in individual sessions is also possible.
REGISTRATION We kindly request that you register at tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone at +49 221 846 395 80
PARTICIPATION FEE
Single ticket: 9 euros
5-ticket pass: 40 euros
Profitrainingwith Ayberk Esen The training starts with a dynamic warm-up that travels through the space including variations of complex & simple exercises, steps and floor work. The class develops into improvisational material: individually, with a partner and as a group, and rounds up in phrases that play with speed, musicality, levels and dynamic.
The two consecutive weeks of training with Ayberk offer an opportunity to delve deeper: during the final phase, the group will work together on a joint choreography that could open up further opportunities and collaborations.
About the artist Ayberk Esen (1984) is a Caucasian folk dance based freelance contemporary dancer who lives & works in Europe since 2009. He received his BA from ZZT Köln , in addition to his previous studies in Istanbul and Salzburg , SEAD (2009) . Since 2010 he has been working in several projects in Austria, Bosnia, Germany, Spain and Holland with Georg Hobmeier (AU) // Flow Berger (AU) // Haris Pasovic (BIH) // Edward Clug (RO) // Georg Reichl (AU) // Jelena Kostic (SRB) // Helder Seabra (PT) // Karl Schreiner (DE) // Sandra Marin Garcia (ES) // Maura Morales, (CU) // Hakan T. Aslan (DE) // Michael Schmidt (DE) // Reut Shemesh ( ISR ) // Marguerite Donlon (IR)
In addition to performing, he has taught professional dance lessons and workshops at several institutions, including Tanzhaus Basel, the Henny Jurriëns Foundation in Amsterdam, Marameo in Berlin, Tanzhaus Zürich, Tanznetz in Freiburg, ZAIK in Cologne, Tanzhaus in Mannheim and Tanzhaus in Düsseldorf. He is also planning to teach at universities and dance colleges.
Eintanzhaus Mannheim, Company training, Copyright: Ayberk Esen
The class consists of a warm-up class leading into a guided investigation towards imagination and movement research tools for creating from the instant.
The warm-up class is a practice of body and mind, designed for animating one’s own creative work. The body is allowed to access its own intelligence by sourcing from its natural urge to be present, to move and to create. We tune into the relationship to gravity, centre, space, articulation, coordination and musicality. The practice is based on many years of ongoing research and training knowledge found in international movement and performance traditions such as contemporary to urban dance styles, Tai Chi, Karate and Japanese Butoh, continuously landscaping in dynamics of living experience. On this basis, Beljana will be sharing creative tools for diving into sensitivity and porousness towards imagination in movement and fullness in performance.
The class is providing space for deepening the immediate relationship between dancer and their art. In this listening space, the movement becomes our teachers. Beljana shares her practice as creator, sharing the space with creators.
In collaboration with Ayberk Esen, ehrenfeldstudios invites you to a professional training class in contemporary dance. A rotating roster of regional and international instructors leads the classes, bringing diverse artistic perspectives, training methods, and movement approaches. The program is designed for dance students and professional dancers and provides a space for ongoing practice and artistic development. Click here for all further dates and information.
Participation in individual sessions is also possible.
PARTICIPATION FEE Single ticket: 9 euros
5-ticket pass: 40 euros
Foto: Alexis W.
About the artist/teacher:
Beljana Metje is a dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist; BA alumna of the University of Music and Dance Cologne (ZZT, 2021). Currently, she is studying MA Choreography at the National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in Oslo, Norway.
Beljana works throughout Europe as a dancer, performer (current projects with Mira Plikat, Leo Gnatzy and Valtteri Keinänen), and choreographer, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects with live musicians, composers, visual artists, writers and poets. With her dance collective “Nangilima Projekt,” she creates own performances that are often self-produced and have been invited to festivals across Europe (Canary Islands, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Spain; such as the Festival Danza de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain and more) and have been supported by the European Union (Creative Europe), among others. For more information, visit the website https://nangilimaproject.wixsite.com/home.
Ageing Trouble stands for a sense of discomfort with age stereotypes and ageism, as well as for resistance and self-determined educational processes in later life. From a performativity-theoretical perspective, Miriam Haller develops in her book a performative cultural geragogy that connects Ageing Studies with cultural education in older age.
How are geragogical models of ageing deconstructed in literature? And how is Ageing Trouble brought to the stage in cultural education practice? To explore these questions, she analyzes the performativity of discourse on education and ageing, and opens up action-oriented perspectives on self-willed performances of ageing and aesthetic educational processes in later life. She does so through performative practices such as Un/doing Age, Un/doing Generations, Un/doing Biography, and Un/doing Beauty, based on three dance and theatre projects with older adults.
The study examines intergenerational dance projects by metabolisten/Silke Z. as well as the Ageing Body laboratories by Silke Z./resistdance; the performative practices of the senior theatre ensemble Golden Gorkis in their production “Ätsch Age!” under the direction of Ron Rosenberg at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin; and the OLDSCHOOL ensemble with their production “Wunderschönes Welkfleisch” under the direction of David Vogel at Schauspiel Köln.
All three are part of the network and exchange project “NachWieVor. Tanzperformance & Alter(n)”, which was initiated by ehrenfeldstudios in 2022.
To mark the publication, a book launch party will take place on July 18, 2026, at 6 pm at ehrenfeldstudios. The event is being organized in collaboration with Dr. Miriam Haller’s passAGEnwerkstatt and will bring together invited guests from the fields of dance, academia, and cultural education for a private professional gathering.
Drawing on the multifaceted dynamics of Ebertplatz, the site-specific dance performance sur-facing II by cie.nomoreless explores the interplay and tension between visibility and invisibility, rapprochement and polarization, and art and everyday life. The ensemble of more than twenty performers – with and without disabilities, of varying ages and levels of dance experience – engages directly with the flow of movement, the social environment, and the architecture of Ebertplatz, developing a choreographic structure that moves between dance intervention and urban life.
sur-facing II deliberately opens itself up to the urban space: Pedestrians become part of the situations, and the boundaries between audience and art blur. The spectators become co-creators of the moment. New forms of coexistence are explored, routines are disrupted, and artistic processes are made visible.
ACCESSIBILITYAudio Description
The performance will be audio-described for blind and visually impaired people. The sensory tour at Ebertplatz begins half an hour before each performance—at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 pm.Meeting point: in front of the LABOR Gallery (Ebertplatz Passage 5) Please register at: britta.renes@nomoreless.eu or by phone for the performance on September 25, 2026: +49 176 70523109, and for the performance on October 3, 2026: +49 157 32544314
(Walk-ins are also welcome.)
Upon prior registration, mobility assistance is available to pick up participants from the Ebertplatz bus or subway stop and escort them back.
If you have any further questions about accessibility, please feel free to contact us.
DATES Fri, 25.09.2026 | 12 am & 3 pm
Sat, 03.10.2026 | 12 am & 3 pm
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via organisation@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Photo © Martin Miseré
Photo © Marta-Olszewska
Photo © Marta-Olszewska
Foto: Ingo Solms
