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.
DATES
Tue, 23.06. – Thu, 25.06.2026 | 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
REGISTRATION
Participation fee: Sliding Scale 90 – 180 Euro
No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
Registration and info: tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or via phone: +49 221 – 846 395 80
To enable as many people as possible to participate, we offer a solidarity-based contribution model. People who can afford to pay a little more make it possible for those with fewer financial resources to participate through their contribution.
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.
Foto: ehrenfeldstudios
AUSGEFLOGEN – in-house productions, IMPROVISATION, LAYOUT EN, ON STAGE, UPCOMING EVENTS
…and are these things stars, or singing? by and with Angus Balbernie
A 30-minute improvisation.
almost finished – solo research 2 by and with Caroline Simon
A dancer, a microphone, and an audience in a room.
Who tells what?
Who listens?
Who sets the framework?
… And what does the dance have to say about it?
DATE
At ehrenfeldstudios:
Fri, 26.06.2026 | 8 pm
TICKETS
Click here for online ticketing
Reservations can also be made by phone:
Tel.: +49 221 846 395 80
AUSGEFLOGEN
Tanz Station Barmer Bahnhof, Wuppertal
Sun, 28.06.2026
Reservation and Registration:
https://www.wuppertal-live.de/User/1101
https://tanz-station.de
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
AUSGEFLOGEN – in-house productions, IMPROVISATION, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
After many years of dance practice, Angus suggests viewing improvisation in the same way one experiences a landscape.
How can a landscape be performed? How is the body to move when seen as rain?
As older people or those with different physical abilities, should we strive to achieve a certain ‘recognised’ form? Or should we move our bodies into the forms they naturally take along their own individual paths?
Angus suggests that – much like nature – we must reshape ourselves with every step and in every moment if we wish to enjoy and celebrate our own journey.
This workshop explores ideas surrounding physicality and imagination, and investigates the improvising body in the same way we might explore a landscape…
For anyone interested in dance and movement.
The workshop will be held in English; German translation is available.
DATE
Sat, 27.06.2026 | 11 am – 1 pm
TICKETS
The ticket sale will begin shortly.
REGISTRATION
Please register in advance via email to tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone at +49 221 846 395 80
PARTICIPATION FEE
Sliding Scale: 20 – 40 Euro
AUSGEFLOGEN
Tanz Station Barmer Bahnhof, Wuppertal
Sun, 28.06.2026
Reservation and Registration: https://tanz-station.de
almost finished
Recherche-, Workshops- und Präsentationsreihe von Caroline Simon & Gästen
In almost finished arbeitet Caroline Simon gemeinsam mit internationalen etablierten Tanzkünstler:innen in Workshop – und Performance Formaten, die die Improvisationskunst in den Mittelpunkt stellen. almost finished lädt Teilnehmer:innen und Publikum gleichermaßen ein, neugierig in die Welt dieser spontanen Kunst einzutauchen und sich überraschen zu lassen.
Photo: Davide Costa
LAYOUT EN, LOOK – Guest performance series for dance & diversity, 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.
