Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
The Dance Jam Session takes place as part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.
We’ll start together with a guided warm-up that leads into an open community space for improvisation and dance encounters among all festival participants. This creates space for new inspiration and collaborative experimentation. Even if you haven’t participated in a CONNECT workshop before, you’re warmly welcome to join in the dancing.
DATE
Sat, 19.09.2026 | 6 -9 pm
REGISTRATION
Please register in advance at tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone at +49 221 846 395 80
PARTICIPATION FEE
On a donation basis
CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.
Foto: © S. Große-Wortmann
Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
This workshop is part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.
‘Dance to the Music!’ is the title of a 1968 song by the band Sly & the Family Stone. But what does it mean to dance to music? How can musicality be expressed? Is it by following the beat, rhythms, vocals or melodies? Or does it involve physically capturing the vibe of a piece of music to tell a story?
In this workshop, dance is taught as a sensory experience and a means of communication. Participants with varying levels of vision explore their own movement language and creativity by dancing through descriptions, tactile interactions and auditory impulses.
DATE
Sun, 20.09.2026 | 11 am – 2 pm
REGISTRATION
Please register in advance at tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone at +49 221 846 395 80
PARTICIPATION FEE
Our workshops follow a solidarity-based pricing model with a sliding scale. Within this framework, you decide for yourselves how much you’d like to and are able to pay. Those who can afford to pay more help support other participants.
Workshops (90 min): 15–30 euros
For two or more CONNECT workshops: starting at 10 euros per workshop
No one will be excluded from participating for financial reasons.
REGISTRATION
Organizational information about the process and registration procedure
Directions
About the artists
Khadidiatou BANGOURA is a dancer and choreographer. Together with Sabine Kuxdorf, she has been offering dance workshops for blind, visually impaired, and sighted dance enthusiasts since 2024. Sabine Kuxdorf is a blind social worker, access consultant, performer (Diphtong Kollektiv, KHARABA & GUESTS), and audio describer for dance and theater (Analogtheater Cologne, Studiobühne, Sticky Fragements).
CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.
Image: Lorena Spülbeck
Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
This workshop is part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.
For all participants in the CONNECT workshops—prior participation in at least one workshop of the CONNECT Community Arts Project is required.
Let’s CONNECT! Our performance workshop invites all previous workshop participants of our CONNECT Community Arts Project to continue working together. In an open, collaborative process, we’ll develop a mini-performance—with a focus on creative exchange and the interplay of different perspectives. In the evening, the results will be presented to an audience as the collective finale of the festival.
DATE
Sun, 20.09.2026 | 3 – 6 pm
PARTICIPATION FEE
Our workshops follow a solidarity-based pricing model with a sliding scale. Within this framework, you decide for yourselves how much you’d like to and are able to pay. Those who can afford to pay more help support other participants.
Workshops (90 min): 15–30 euros
For two or more CONNECT workshops: starting at 10 euros per workshop
No one will be excluded from participating for financial reasons.
CONNECT Community Arts Project ist gefördert von der RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur und dem Kulturamt der Stadt Köln.
Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LAYOUT EN, ON STAGE, UPCOMING EVENTS
This performance is part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.
DATE
Sun, 20.09.2026 | 6 pm
TICKETS
On a donation basis
ACCESSIBILITY
Barrier-free access.
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available. The entrance to the toilet is 68 cm wide.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.
Foto: © S. Große-Wortmann
LAYOUT EN, ON STAGE, UPCOMING EVENTS
Chamäleon is a dance-theatre solo piece for everyone aged 8 and over, that explores the relation between the body and its natural and technological environment. The piece tells the story of a chameleon who can’t camouflage himself like all other chameleons around him, and as a result he decides to find a place, where he could fit in. Along the way he meets other creatures who guide him and give him advices, who help him find out whether he wants to fit in or rather stand out, and be special.
With Choreography, video and sound the performer is going to tell a story of courage and resilience, of what it means to be different.
DATES
25.09.2026 | 7 pm
26.09.2026 | 4 pm Double feature with Baal
Chamäleon will be performed following SWEET DANCE & BEBÍBULA by Baal
TICKETS
Click here for online reservations.
Reservations can also be made by phone:
Tel.: +49 221 846 395 80
For September 26, 2026, you also have the option to book a complete package:
COMPLETE PACKAGE (Workshop, BEBÍBULA & Chamäleon)
Adults: 20–40 euros (sliding scale)
Children: 15 euros
Book by email or phone:
Via email to: tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone at +49 221 846 395 80
ACCESSIBILITY
Barrier-free access.
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available. The entrance to the toilet is 68 cm wide.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via organisation@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Funded by the Cultural Affairs Office of the City of Cologne.
Photo: © Jens Pussel
