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How do you deal with conflict? Do you raise your voice, get angry, aggressive? Do you become sad? Overwhelmed? In a world where increasing polarization and hardening of positions are felt everywhere, killing me softly seeks to create a space to more deeply explore the web of conflict, strength, power, and self-empowerment. A training ground to propose and practice different forms of confrontation. How can we find our own way of “being strong” without being bent by the heteronormative and patriarchal influences we were raised with?
CREDITS
Concept and choreography: Tamora Dinklage, Juliana Garaycochea, YeoJin Kim, Leonie Stöckle
Outside Eye: Catalina Carrasco
DATE
Fr, 22.08.2025 | 7 pm
Entry on a donation basis
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Photo © Kat Schmitz
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Come a little closer. Even closer. Super close. Can you feel our age? Can you taste our experiences? Do you desire our knowledge? Which body do you reveal to me?
In TEMPTATION, 10 performers aged over 55, move between lust and loss, flirtation and shame, pleasure and pain and create a statement on sexuality in old age(s) in biographical excerpts and physical snapshots. TEMPTATION embarks on a journey to stimulating, lost and obscure places and is dedicated to the visibility of individual pleasure in old age(s).
TEMPTATION is a production by the Silke Z. company and was created in 2024 in cooperation with Schauspiel Köln. The performers are made up of the OLDSCHOOL theatre ensemble from Schauspiel Köln under the artistic direction of David Vogel and performers from the Silke Z. company.
Artistic direction: David Vogel, Silke Z. Director: David Vogel Choreography: Silke Z. Performance: Friedhelm Friebe, Uta Gärtel, Anne Kaute, Felicitas Martin, Hartmut Misgeld, Bettina Muckenhaupt, Guido Preuss, Mina Rahimzacleh, Gabriele Seiler-Seidler, Majid Taatizadeh, Caroline Simon Costume: Julia Misiorny, Anette Köhler Set design: Anna Lachnit Lighting design: Garlef Kessler Sound design: Liam Giles Production management & assistance: Hanna Held, Matthis Volkmar
DATES
Sun, 22.06.2025 | 6 pm at ehrenfeldstudios
Thu, 26.06.2025 | 7.30 pm at Festival PERFORMAGE in Lucerne (Außer Haus)
Fri, 27.06.2025 | 10.30 am at Festival PERFORMAGE in Lucerne (Außer Haus)
TICKETS
Sliding Scale: 10 – 20 Euro
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
A cooperation with Schauspiel Köln and OLDSCHOOL.
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.


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The workshop focuses on “instant composition”, a game with decisions, letting go, trust, perception …. and, above all, having fun with your own movement!
We will explore various tools, methods and strategies to create our own dance in real time.
How can we perceive, play with and compose unexpected and surprising possibilities by “not planning”?
For everyone with and without prior dance experience.
Barrier-free access. Accompanying persons receive free admission.
DATE
Fri, 13.06.2025 | 18 – 21 pm
REGISTRATION
Participation fee: 65 – 150 € (sliding scale) nota
no one turned away: No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
Registration & info: contact@carolinesimon.com
Photo: © S. Große-Wortmann
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Dance ALL IN is an artist-led touring platform by five partners from Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal and Spain, presenting five diverse dance performances in three countries through the principles of solidarity and fairness. Dance ALL IN focuses on intergenerational, diverse and inclusive dance productions which are accompanied by a series of workshops and talks open for everybody, i.e. – ALL IN.
Vilnius, Lithuania
20 – 23 March 2025
Mallorca, Spain
24 – 27 April 2025
Dance ALL IN x Sharing Across Borders Edition 3
Cologne, Germany
29.05.-01.06.2025
You can find the festival program here!
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We are delighted to invite you to the international dance network festival “Dance ALL IN x Sharing Across Borders Edition 3“!
From Thursday, May 29 to Sunday, June 1, 2025, the ehrenfeldstudios will once again be transformed into a vibrant platform for dance, exchange and sustainable artistic development.
Dance ALL IN is an international festival supported by Perform Europe. It brings together five partners from Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal and Spain and presents five different dance performances in three countries under the principles of solidarity and fairness. Dance ALL IN focuses on intergenerational, diverse and inclusive dance productions accompanied by a series of workshops and talks open to all – ALL IN.
Now Dance ALL IN is coming to ehrenfeldstudios and merging with the third edition of our biennial dance network platform Sharing Across Borders. Together, they will create a unique festival format that brings together not only international performances, but also local talent, workshops, pitching programs and feedback formats.
Over four days, the festival will bring together regional and international artists: from established greats to up-and-coming talents from NRW. Look forward to an inclusive and intergenerational program with something for everyone!
What to expect:
- DANCE ALL IN: Outstanding performances by international artists from the studiotrade network and by local artists.
- PITCH (IM)PERFECT: A platform for five up-and-coming artists from NRW, which present and develop their work
- TALK & CONNECT: Exchange and workshop formats for networking and further education.
Click through the diverse program and secure your TICKETS now!
Reservation at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Festival ticket
– for all performances, workshops, pitches
– Sliding Scale 100-180€
Pack of Four – Ticket
– Choose four events you would like to visit with this ticket.
– Sliding Scale 35-75€
Single Ticket Performances & Pitches
– Adults: Sliding Scale 10-20€
– Children: 5€
Single Ticket Workshop
– Sliding Scale 7€-15€
Here we present the PROGRAM in detail:
Thursday, 29.05.2025
8 pm | Double Bill Performance:
Together Alone | Low Air Vilnius City Dance Theatre (LT)
Dandelion | Edward Schocker & DOSSIER 3-D-Poetry/ Marion Dieterle (DEU/IT)
Friday, 30.05.2025
11 am – 12 noon | Workshop for kids aged 5 and over with parents/guardians
Creativity-Dance-Play | with BAAL (ESP)
3 pm | Performance (also for kids):
SOMATATI | Vo’arte and CiM Dance Company (PTL)
8 pm | Performance:
Mabel Revival | Liisa Pentti +Co (FIN)
9 pm | Partytime!
Saturday, 31.05.2025
11 am | Pitch (Im)perfect:
Sagenumwoben | Johanna Greiner
12:30 pm | Pitch (Im)perfect:
culo 2 aka le veline | Gaia Pellegrini
3 pm | Double Bill Performance (also for kids):
A&S Space travellers | Baal (ESP)
Mit Uns! Karel meets David | Silke Z. (GER)
5 pm – 6:30 pm | Workshop for everyone aged 16 and over
DIVA | with Liisa Pentti (FIN)
8 pm | Performance:
A Society of Screens | Ido Grinberg (GER)
Sunday, 01.06.2025
10:30 am | Pitch (Im)perfect:
REPATTERNING | Agnetha Jaunich & Rebekka Jochem
12 pm | Pitch (Im)perfect:
scor(e)ing the public | Natalia Kozakiewicz
3 pm | Performance (also for kids):
I AM | Teatro al Vacío (MEX)
4:30 pm | Pitch (Im)perfect:
killing me softly | Juliana Garaycochea, YeoJin Kim, Leonie Stöckle, Tamora Raffaela Dinklage
6 pm | Preview:
fear:less | Silke Z. (GER)
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste and Perform Europe. Realization in cooperation with studiotrade.




Photo: Esko Koivisto