LAYOUT EN, LOOK – Guest performance series for dance & diversity, ON STAGE, UPCOMING EVENTS
So, have you sinned yet today? Snacked, feasted, indulged, regretted?
Navigating between transience, discipline, consumption, and excess, FOOD PORN deconstructs good old-fashioned table manners and invites you to a performative feast. Inspired by Baroque still lifes, vanitas, and hyper-aestheticized food photography, dancers Hanna Held and Andrea Kößler focus on the act of indulgence and its tipping points in this dance performance. A play between Baroque opulence and a feminist battlefield: FOOD PORN pushes narratives surrounding food to the point of absurdity and invites us to a collective seduction through the seemingly sinful allure of food.
Don´t wear your best clothes – there will be real food!
DATES
Fri, 03.07.2026 | 8 pm (premiere)
Sat, 04.07.2026 | 8 pm
On both days, an installation-style exhibition space will open at 7:30 pm. to set the theme for the event.
CREDITS
Choreography & Performance: Hanna Held, Andrea Kößler
Video: Vika Gurina
Outside Eye/Dramaturgical Consultation: Laura Becker
TICKETS
Online ticket sales will begin shortly.
Reservations can also be made by phone:
Tel.: +49 221 846 395 80
Barrier-free access.
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via organisation@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Photo: Sophia Ebner
LAYOUT EN, THE AGEING BODY – Generation + (EN), UPCOMING EVENTS
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.
The book is now available for pre-order:
Miriam Haller (2026): Ageing Trouble! – Theorie, Diskursgeschichte und Praxis der Performativen Kulturgeragogik, Bielefeld: transcrit, Print und Open Access, https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-8013-3/ageing-trouble-theorie-diskursgeschichte-und-praxis-der-performativen-kulturgeragogik/
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.
ARCHIVE, LAYOUT EN
In this movement workshop, we explore the theme of traces in various ways. Traces can be found everywhere – in nature, in movement, and in memory. During these two days we will explore together what traces are, how they emerge, and what they can reveal or carry with them. Our starting point will be dance: How does movement leave a trace in space, in the body, or in perception? What remains from a movement once it has passed? We will work with elements from Instant Composition, Body-Mind Centering, and Authentic Movement.
The workshop is conceived as a shared space for exploration – curious, open, and experimental. We will dance, observe, follow movements, and sense the traces they leave, while also taking time to exchange and reflect together.
DATES
Sat, 23.05. & Sun, 24.05.2026 | 10 am – 4 pm (one-hour lunch break)
PRICES
Sliding scale:
Both days: 160 Euro / 180 Euro / 200 Euro
Saturday only: 80 Euro / 90 Euro / 100 Euro
LANGUAGE
English (German translation possible)
REGISTRATION
Please register at: susirosenfeld@web.de
www.susirosenfeld.com
ARCHIVE, LAYOUT EN
From a dynamic approach, this training prioritizes expressive physicality and musicality. We begin with a high-energy warm-up designed to activate the entire body, followed by targeted mobility and strength work—specifically focusing on the hips and shoulders. The training transitions into detailed floorwork, exploring highly physical endurance and musicality. We conclude with technical phrases that challenge endurance and play with contrasting musical qualities, encouraging to refine individual timing and dynamic range, playing creatively with timing, texture, and dynamic.
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.
DATES
Mon, 11.05 – Fri, 15.05.2026 | 10 am – 11:30 am each day
Further dates (instructors to be announced)
10 a.m. – 11:30 am each day
Mon, 25.05 – Fri, 29.05.2026
Mon, 01.06 – Fri, 05.06.2026
Mon, 22.06 – Fri, 26.06.2026
Mon, 06.07 – Fri, 10.07.2026
Participation in individual sessions is also possible.
PARTICIPATION FEE
Single ticket: 9 euros
5-ticket pass: 40 euros
About the Artist
Jovana Petrovska (she/her) is a performer, choreographer and dance mediator based in Cologne, originally from Skopje, North Macedonia.
Her core practice involves a deep commitment to building the contemporary scene in her homeland, continuously creating and sharing work for a local festival for the past three years. The artist explores the intersection of culture, traditional dance, and contemporary movement.
Photo: Slavjan Stojanov
ARCHIVE, LAYOUT EN
A bearded nun performing miracles? The surviving videos from prehistoric times seem irrefutable. Sister Mary Wendy and the Order of Brah Brah are confident that a lasting solution to global crises and conflicts is not far off, and are already recruiting new members. Who wouldn’t want to join them?
The Miracle uses contemporary, physical and wildly exuberant clown storytelling that complicates genre and gender boundaries while charmingly inviting the audience to expand their own freedom. Absurd, surprising, playful and fun, the show embarks on a search for myth-enshrouded, queer-feminist ancestors from a not-so-distant past, whose knowledge of the miraculous power of ambiguity and humor wants to be rediscovered! As Sister Mary Wendy, Olivia Platzer draws on a rich canon full of wild women and genderqueer pioneers— from Baubo, who reveals her vulva to the depressed goddess Demeter to cheer her up and thus end a global famine, to the popular saint Wilgefortis, who as a crucified virgin with a beard became the patron saint of women in distress. The Miracle tells of a community in which non-conformity, not conformity, is sacred.
Combining physical theater, humor and English text, The Miracle is equally suitable for audiences with different language skills.
DATE
Fri, 08.05.2026 | 8 pm
TICKETS
Click here for online ticketing.
Reservations can also be made by phone:
Tel.: +49 221 846 395 80
Barrier-free access.
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via organisation@ehrenfeldstudios.de
CREDITS
Performance & Artistic Direction: Olivia Platzer
Outside Eye & Technical Assistance: Bryce Kasson
Video & Artistic Assistance: Ale Bachlechner
Stage & Costume: Olga Steiner
Mentoring: Lila Monti
Writing Coach: Lory Leshin
Flyer: Mario Frank
Funded by the Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sport and the City of Innsbruck.
Photo: Dino Bossnini
