Labs & Workshops, LAYOUT EN, Upcoming events
Under the title KINGS & QUEENS, we invite all people over 55 to explore traditional gender roles and their own positioning within them through dance art under the direction of Silke Z. and Caroline Simon. How do labels and stereotypes of gender roles become entrenched on a physical level? How can we express these in movements, challenge them and transform them into something new? What biographical imprints and self- and external attributions are there? We want to explore all these questions together with you through dance. The lab will culminate in a final performance.
DATES
Performance lab #1: 27.01. – 01.02.2025
Performance lab #2: 31.03. – 05.04.2025
Performance lab #3: 08.09. – 13.09.2025
Performance lab #4: 10.11. – 15.11.2025
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 3 pm
Saturday: Performance at 8 pm
REGISTRATION
Participation fee: 50€
No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
Registration and info: tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access. Participation with a rollator or wheelchair is possible.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Photo: © Adobe Stock Photos
LAYOUT EN, On stage, Upcoming events
In this choreographic lecture performance, Niko Jacobi brings memories, experiences, desires and needs into dialogue with cultural, conceptual and performative possibilities of (re)presenting personal identity. Which bodily sensations shape myself-image? Which echoes do they find in cultural archetypes? Which pronouns and stories accompany these images? How do I experience them in the context of social expectations? Niko invites the audience to explore these questions sensually and intellectually through the interplay of language and movement, and to reflect on their own relationship to identity and gender stereotypes.
DATES
Fri, 14.11.25 | 8 pm
Sat, 15.11.25 | 8 pm*
*On Saturday you can also look forward to the opening act of our THE AGEING BODY performance laboratory KINGS & QUEENS – Geschlechterrollen im Wandel.
CREDITS
Concept: Charlie Fouchier // Direction: Charlie Fouchier, Niko Jacobi // Performance: Niko Jacobi // Lighting and set design: Charlie Fouchier // Video works: Mono Welk, Niko Jacobi, Jul Zereck, Charlie Fouchier
A production by Charlie Fouchier in co-production with KATAPULT – Performance Platform Leipzig, a project by Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, Schaubühne Lindenfels, and LOFFT – DAS THEATER. Supported by 4fT – Tanzplattform Leipzig e.V.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charlie Fouchier, born in Paris, studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and choreography at the CNDC in Angers. He has worked as a dancer with renowned choreographers such as Tino Sehgal and Aina Alegre. His works combine choreography, performance, and visual arts, are based on perceptual analyses and research from neuroscience, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and are presented throughout Germany.
TICKETS
Sliding Scale: 10 – 20 Euro
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
Live audio description on request.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax revenue based on the budget approved by the members of the Saxon State Parliament.
The LOOK 2025 guest performance series is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Foto: Charlie Fouchier
Labs & Workshops, LAYOUT EN, Upcoming events
Playful, and full of joy, Sônia invites women* of all ages to get their bodies moving.
She works with subtle, gentle, relaxed, and playful exercises for the body and space. These are built up calmly and repeated several times until you feel something happening…
Just move – as naturally as breathing, playing, or watering plants. Curiosity, desire, and trust open doors to expression, play, and vitality.
Basics of the training:
• Accept gravity and let it carry you
• Find balance – inside and out
• Explore and deepen movement qualities
• Let new things arise from your imagination
• Move, experience, and be in the here and now
No previous experience necessary—all levels welcome!
DATES
Thu, 20.11.25 | 6 – 7:30 pm trial session
Sat, 22.11.25 & Sun, 23.11.25 | 10 am – 2 pm weekend workshops
REGISTRATION
Please register via tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de.
Trial session: free of charge
Weekend workshop: 15€
No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
About Sônia Mota
Sônia Mota, born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1948, has lived and worked in Cologne since 1989. She is primarily active in the independent dance scene in Brazil and Europe. Since 2018, she has danced for Kabawil e. V., tanzfuchs PRODUKTION, Kimchibrot Connection, MIRA by Julia Riera, ip-tanz by Ilona Pászty, and Tanzwerk VanekPreuß in Bonn, among others. In August 2024, her book Art of Presence/Presence in Art about her dance methodologies in Brazil was published.
Funded by
Foto: Günther Kremer
LAYOUT EN, On stage, Upcoming events
EINFACH SO | Caroline Simon
Just do it, just keep going, just relax, just have fun, just like that… How easy is easy? And how easy does easy seem? Using simple means (movement, body, space), Caroline Simon creates a real-time performance: reduced, pictorial, simply surprising.
NOTE TO SELF | Bryce Kasson
Note to Self
an improvisation by and with Bryce Kasson
a lecture on time, interrupted.
a soundtrack of recorded dreams, beatboxed song ideas, cracking ice, stray thoughts and wind, gathered (and gathering dust) over years.
swirling weather patterns of movement.
la fortaleza de una máscara.
all of this. and also (maybe) none of it…
CREDITS
An improvisation with composition, text, sound design and performance by Bryce Kasson.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bryce Kasson is an improvisor – dancer, clown, musician – and teacher who has lived and worked in the USA, Argentina and now Germany. For the past 30 years, the core practices of his dance research, performing and teaching have been Contact Improvisation and Tuning Scores. He’s often invited to research and perform Tuning Scores in small groups with Lisa Nelson and other international Tuners. He’s keenly interested in the moment when an action becomes meaningful, either to the mover or the watcher.
DATE
Fri, 21.11.25 | 8 pm
TICKETS
Sliding Scale: 10 – 20 Euro
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Foto: Viktor Brim
Archive, LAYOUT EN
How much planning does the uncertain need? How many agreements does letting go need? How much trust does the maybe need? How much security does the audience need?
After 3 days of joint research, the performers Jennifer Hoernemann (Bonn), Lisa Thomas, Martina Gunkel (Stuttgart) and Caroline Simon (Cologne) invite the audience to watch dance develop in the moment.
DATE
Thu, 04.09.2025 | 8 pm
TICKETS
Admission on a donation basis
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Photo: B. Schröer
