CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
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 Moments 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.
DATES
Fri, 17.04.2026 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm (trial session)
Sat, 18.04.2026 | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
REGISTRATION
We kindly request that you register at tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone: +49 221 – 846 395 80
PRICES
Trial sessions:
Free of charge
Weekend workshops:
Adults: 15–30 euros (sliding scale) | Children: 5 euros
No one will be excluded from participating for financial reasons.
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.
Photo: ehrenfeldstudios
CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
The workshop “Queering the Stage” examines acting and dance approaches to rehearsal and stage work from an intersectional queer-feminist perspective. Theoretical impulses from Judith Butler, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Donna Haraway serve as the basis for a physical, practice-oriented implementation. (No prior knowledge necessary) Through small content-related impulses, participants are encouraged to question the dance, physical, and acting portrayal of characters in relation to gender/sexuality. At the same time, rehearsal structures should also be questioned in this regard. The aim is to draw attention to patriarchal patterns that are anchored in rehearsal processes and performance and, if necessary, to break them down.
DATES
Fri, 29.05.2026 | 6 – 7.30 pm (trial session)
Sat, 30 & 31.05.2026 | 10 am – 2 pm
REGISTRATION
We kindly request that you register at tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone: +49 221 – 846 395 80
PRICES
Trial sessions:
Free of charge
Weekend workshops:
Adults: 15 – 30 euros (sliding scale) | Children: 5 euros
No one will be excluded from participating for financial reasons.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Malin Assmus studied performing arts at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. After a permanent engagement at the Theater Heilbronn, Malin began working as a freelancer in Cologne in 2020. Her career has been shaped by her own work, film and theater productions, and her collaboration with dancer Lisa Hellmich. Her work focuses on intersectional queer-feminist and human rights issues. Malin is currently pursuing a master’s degree in gender and queer studies.
Photo: Stefan Henaku
CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, THE AGEING BODY – Generation + (EN), UPCOMING EVENTS
Ageing affects us all – throughout our entire lives. This is precisely why questions about how age(ing) affects us, how we want to move in old age, and how we shape age(ing) are both personal and social issues for artistic practice and cultural education in dance. Age(ing) is a social issue that is often charged with stereotypical ideas that reflect society’s ideal of youthfulness and performance. This is where the AGEING BODY project comes in, because the performing arts and formats of cultural education in old age offer scope for addressing the tension between social images and attributions of age, the realities of life, and self-positioning.
THE AGEING BODY is a multilayered, designoriented dance art project for and with older people. The physical and dance-based approach to the topics in a non-hierarchical and non-judgmental environment offers participants the freedom to explore, question, and experience.
DATES
Fri, 12.06.2026 | 6 – 7.30 pm (trial session)
Sat, 13 & 14.06.2026 | 10 am – pm
REGISTRATION
We kindly request that you register at tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone: +49 221 – 846 395 80
PRICES
Trial sessions:
Free of charge
Weekend workshops:
Adults: 15 – 30 euros (sliding scale) | Children: 5 euros
No one will be excluded from participating for financial reasons.
Barrier-free access. Participation with a rollator or wheelchair is possible.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Silke Z. is committed to exploring methods for the artistic development of contemporary dance. She and her ensemble view dance as a direct form of expression for human sensibilities and needs, and artistic production as an opportunity to reflect society and highlight perspectives on a given topic. Silke Z. has developed over 40 dance productions at home and abroad with her mixed-age team. Her work has received numerous national and international awards. Z. founded and directs the ehrenfeldstudios and the international network studiotrade.
Photo: Hanna Held
CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, MEGA - Kids & Teens (EN), UPCOMING EVENTS
When it hasn′t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year, but
I′ll be there for you
When the rain starts to pour
I’ll be there for you
Like I′ve been there before
I’ll be there for you
Cause you’re there for me too
We have all had a best friend at some point. A person we tell everything to, who we text or call when something good or bad happens.
In this workshop, we will explore through dance what connects us to our friends. Can friendship be found in our bodies? How much closeness and distance do we need? And how much strength do we find in our friendships?
The workshop is aimed at all young people between the ages of 14 and 20, with or without dance experience. Together, we will discover how to approach the topic through dance. Bring your best friend!
DATES
Fri, 19.06.2026 | 6 – 7.30 pm
Sat, 20. & 21.06.2026 | 11 am – 3 pm
REGISTRATION
We kindly request that you register at tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Or by phone: +49 221 – 846 395 80
PRICES
Trial sessions:
Free of charge
Weekend workshops:
Adults: 15 – 30 euros (sliding scale) | Children: 5 euros
No one will be excluded from participating for financial reasons.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Judith Niggehoff initiates and accompanies artistic processes as a form of expression and education for young people in her roles as dance and theater educator, choreographer, and director. She has developed numerous productions with young people at Schauspiel Köln and Theater Marabu. Together with Sophie Halcour and Saliha Shagasi, she is part of KONNECTIVE. A performance collective whose artistic focus is on social issues that are explored from an intersectional feminist perspective.
Photo: Anna Sorgalla
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.
Barrier-free access. Participation with a rollator or wheelchair is possible.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
Foto: ehrenfeldstudios
