*A mental, emotional, and (meta)physical geocaching journey through transgenerational, transgressive, (post)political, intercultural, neural, medial, hypoinstitutional, cellular, cognitive, creative, and spiritual states of body and mind, expressed in physical, verbal, and nonverbal, visible, tangible, and experiential forms.
CREDITS Idea & Concept: Post Meta Institute
Choreography: Karel Vanek, Silke Z., Guido Vanek-Preuß, Caroline Simon
Performance: Guido Vanek-Preuß, Caroline Simon
Set: Silke Z., Karel Vanek
Supervisor: Tchekpo Dan Agbetou
A production by Post Meta Institute (Tanzwerke Vanek Preuß e.V., Bonn
ehrenfeldstdudios e.V., Cologne; DansArt Tanznetworks, Bielefeld)
ACCESSIBILITY
Barrier-free access.
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available.
How do two generations connect through their art? Johanna immerses herself physically in the memories woven into the woolen fabrics of Regina’s rugs. Through contemporary dance and Masurian peasant and wedding rugs, a female perspective on history comes to life, inviting the audience to participate in shaping the experience. Amid the rhythmic sound of the spinning wheel, the traditional art of weaving, and its materials and symbols, a window opens onto the cultural memory of another generation. The Masurian tradition, which is slowly changing and seems almost lost, finds its place in the present.
CREDITS Masurian Carpets: Regina Greiner
Project Direction, Choreography & Dance: Johanna Greiner
Dramaturgical Support: Tamora Raffaella Dinklage
Video Artist: Rubina Ünzelmann-Balotsch
Costume Designer: susebee
Composition: Ella Olivia Bender Semerci
Lighting Design: Lena Kroj
Sound Engineering: Olli Gundlach
PR & Public Relations: Madeleine Scheuerpflug
ABOUT THE ARTIST Johanna Greiner, Regina’s granddaughter, began her dance training in Cologne, trained with Cobos Mika SEED’s Formation in Palamós, Spain, and earned her B.A. in Dance and Choreography in 2023 from AMEU, Dance Academy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2024, she worked with the Alpha Group in Vienna under the artistic direction of Darrel Toulon on his project “Prélude:Lebensborn.” She was a SuSo Artist in Residence in 2025 in Sutivan, Croatia, and most recently an OPEN:FORM(AT) resident at Tanzfaktur in Cologne.
Funded by the NRW State Office for the Independent Performing Arts, the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.
Supported by Tanzresidenz 2026 at Quartier am Hafen, Das Werk, The Alpha Group, BdV Landesverband NRW, and the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen – Landesgruppe NR.
The class consists of a warm-up class leading into a guided investigation towards imagination and movement research tools for creating from the instant.
The warm-up class is a practice of body and mind, designed for animating one’s own creative work. The body is allowed to access its own intelligence by sourcing from its natural urge to be present, to move and to create. We tune into the relationship to gravity, centre, space, articulation, coordination and musicality. The practice is based on many years of ongoing research and training knowledge found in international movement and performance traditions such as contemporary to urban dance styles, Tai Chi, Karate and Japanese Butoh, continuously landscaping in dynamics of living experience. On this basis, Beljana will be sharing creative tools for diving into sensitivity and porousness towards imagination in movement and fullness in performance.
The class is providing space for deepening the immediate relationship between dancer and their art. In this listening space, the movement becomes our teachers. Beljana shares her practice as creator, sharing the space with creators.
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.
Participation in individual sessions is also possible.
PARTICIPATION FEE Single ticket: 9 euros
5-ticket pass: 40 euros
Foto: Alexis W.
About the artist/teacher:
Beljana Metje is a dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist; BA alumna of the University of Music and Dance Cologne (ZZT, 2021). Currently, she is studying MA Choreography at the National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in Oslo, Norway.
Beljana works throughout Europe as a dancer, performer (current projects with Mira Plikat, Leo Gnatzy and Valtteri Keinänen), and choreographer, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects with live musicians, composers, visual artists, writers and poets. With her dance collective “Nangilima Projekt,” she creates own performances that are often self-produced and have been invited to festivals across Europe (Canary Islands, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Spain; such as the Festival Danza de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain and more) and have been supported by the European Union (Creative Europe), among others. For more information, visit the website https://nangilimaproject.wixsite.com/home.
Ido Grinberg’s class offers a dynamic exploration of movement through improvisation, phrases, and compositional tools, while drawing inspiration from ballroom and Latin dances in a playful way. The training moves between movement research, technical practice, and games that foster creativity, individual expression, musicality, spatial awareness, and connection with others.
In collaboration with Ayberk Esen, ehrenfeldstudios invites you to a professional training class in contemporary dance. Classes are led by a rotating team of regional and international instructors, bringing together 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, 06.07– Fri, 10.07.2026 | 10 am – 11:30 am
Further dates (instructors to be announced)
Mon, 13.07. – Fri, 17.07.2026 | 10 am – 11:30 am
Participation in individual sessions is also possible.
REGISTRATION We kindly request that you register at tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone at +49 221 846 395 80
PARTICIPATION FEE Single ticket: 9 euros
5-ticket pass: 40 euros
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!
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via organisation@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Foto: Ingo Solms
