Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, THE AGEING BODY – Generation + (EN), UPCOMING EVENTS
“I can deepen my contact with myself and my fellow dancers, I can be positively curious again. I feel included, not excluded – that’s priceless. And because the world is the way it is, we as those affected need to reinforce these positive feelings again and again, recharge our batteries and enjoy them. This is possible in dance training at the ehrenfeldstudios!”
(Ulrike Borchers, Dance & Parkinson’s participant)
Under the guidance of Silke Z., we intensify our own body awareness in search of new possibilities for movement. We work playfully with individual dance expression and our own creativity.
A project by Elisabeth Habel in cooperation with ehrenfeldstudios.
For ALL with and without previous experience.
For ALL with Parkinson’s.
For relatives and interested parties.
DATE
Sat, 19.09.2026 | 2:30 – 4 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.
ACCESSIBILITY
We want to make the workshop as accessible as possible so that everyone can participate. Please feel free to let us know in advance via email at organisation@ehrenfeldstudios.de about any specific access requirements you may have, for example by sending us an Access Rider. We will then do our best to accommodate your access requirements as much as possible and in communication with you.
Barrier-free access. Participation with a rollator or wheelchair is possible.
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.
Foto: ehrenfeldstudios
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.
Our culture and heritage are (partly) inscribed in our bodies, our cells, and our habits. How do culture, origin, and social spaces shape our movements, postures, and inner structures? The Cultural Moves workshop invites participants to consciously perceive culturally imprinted movement patterns and forms of expression and to experience them. Through physical exploration, observation, and lots of exchange, we examine how individual and collective stories manifest themselves in the body. Joint improvisations and small group compositions create spaces for dialogue, resonance, and new perspectives. The workshop is aimed at anyone interested in the body, movement, culture, and encounter – no prior knowledge is required.
DATE
Sat, 19.09.2026 | 4:30–6 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.
ACCESSIBILITY
We want to make the workshop as accessible as possible so that everyone can participate. Please feel free to let us know in advance via email at organisation@ehrenfeldstudios.de about any specific access requirements you may have, for example by sending us an Access Rider. We will then do our best to accommodate your access requirements as much as possible and in communication with you.
Barrier-free access. Participation with a rollator or wheelchair is possible.
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Caroline Simon is a dancer and dance teacher who has been working in Cologne for 25 years. Here she has danced in over 20 productions by the Silke Z. company, among others. Since 2022, she has been focusing her artistic work on methods of dance improvisation – both in performance and in teaching. She performs her solos Momentology and Einen Moment, bitte (for young audiences) in North Rhine-Westphalia and abroad. She is a founding member of the European network studiotrade and co-founder and co-director of the ehrenfeldstudios.
CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.
Photo: ehrenfeldstudios
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
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
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.
