festival, LAYOUT EN, On stage, Upcoming events
How do you deal with conflicts? Do you get loud, angry, aggressive? Do you get sad? Do you always think of the right response a day later? The artistic research killing me softly uses boxing as the ultimate embodiment of conflict to deconstruct patriarchal ideas and ideals of power, and the question of the „survival of the fittest“.
In the Pitch (im)perfect format, up-and-coming artists from North Rhine-Westphalia present their artistic concepts, ideas and projects in process. In exchange with international artists and the audience, ideas and concepts can be explored further and future plans can be developed.
This event is part of the international TanzNetzwerk Festival Dance ALL IN x Sharing Across Borders Edition 3. Find the full program and ticket information here.
Dance ALL IN x Sharing Across Borders Edition 3 is 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: © Juliana Garaycochea, YeoJin Kim, Leonie Stöckle, Tamora Raffaela Dinklage
festival, LAYOUT EN, On stage, Upcoming events
fear:less deals with social conditions of fear and questions the function of the body in this context. The culmination of various acute global crises seems to be increasingly condensing into a collective state of fear and shaping people’s behaviour. Paradoxically, at the same time as fears are on the rise, we are witnessing increasingly uninhibited language and shame-free, reckless behaviour that appears loud, unbridled and completely indifferent.
Credits:
Performers: Hanna Held, Dmitrijus Andrušanecas
Artistic direction: Silke Z.
Lighting design: Garlef Keßler
Silke Z./ehrenfeldstudios e.V.: Germany
Silke Z. stands for a search movement for methods of artistic development in contemporary dance. She and her ensemble see dance as a direct form of expression of human sensitivities and needs and artistic production as a socially reflective way of making perspectives on a topic visible. Silke Z. and her mixed-age team have developed over 40 dance productions in Germany and abroad. Her work has won several national and international awards. Z. founded and directs the ehrenfeldstudios and the international studiotrade network.
This event is part of the international TanzNetzwerk Festival Dance ALL IN x Sharing Across Borders Edition 3. Find more information here.
Dance ALL IN x Sharing Across Borders Edition 3 is 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: Dmitrijus Matvejevas
Labs & Workshops, LAYOUT EN, Upcoming events
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
LAYOUT EN, On stage, Upcoming events
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 entrance. Accompanying persons receive free admission.
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.
Labs & Workshops, LAYOUT EN, Upcoming events
Under the title KINGS & QUEENS, we invite all people over 55 to explore traditional gender roles and their own positioning within them through dance art under the direction of Silke Z. and Caroline Simon. How do labels and stereotypes of gender roles become entrenched on a physical level? How can we express these in movements, challenge them and transform them into something new? What biographical imprints and self- and external attributions are there? We want to explore all these questions together with you through dance. The lab will culminate in a final performance.
Barrier-free entrance. Accompanying persons receive free admission
DATES
Performance lab #1: 27.01. – 01.02.2025
Performance lab #2: 31.03. – 05.04.2025
Performance lab #3: 08.09. – 13.09.2025
Performance lab #4: 10.11. – 15.11.2025
REGISTRATION
Participation fee: 50€ nota (no one turned away)
No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
Registration and info: vermittlung@resistdance.de
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Photo: © Adobe Stock Photos
