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Within the 25-year history of LOFFT, more than 1000 projects have been realized at our house. You can browse through a large part of the productions and projects shown here on the following pages.

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(BROKEN) BRIDGES

HAJUSOM / SOEURS DOGA / VIKTOR MAREK (HAMBURG/OUAGADOUGOU)

After a fathomless, symbolic farewell to the old, ruinous world, Hajusom and a group of artists* from Burkina Faso rely directly on their bodies for their new start.

  • Performance

MELANCHOLIC MARATHON

GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN/LEIPZIG/BERLIN)

go plastic company invites you to collective melancholy in a relaxed atmosphere with a walk-in and interactive solo dance performance.

  • Dance
  • Performance

WERKSTATT: MORGENROT | MORNING RED

ALIDA BOHNEN (LEIPZIG)

In a combination of painting and theater, the evening explores the possibility of hope in times of perceived hopelessness.

  • Performance
  • Theatre

HEIZHAUS ON STAGE

HEIZHAUS + HEIZI COMPANY (Leipzig)

All big and small dancers of the Heizhaus will be on stage together for the first time. In addition, the dance theater piece KIDS IM BLOCK of the Heizi Company celebrates its premiere!

  • Kids & Youth
  • Dance

EURO-SCENE LEIPZIG: SCARBO

Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company / Ioannis Mandafounis (Germany)

The longer Manon Parent dances, the more the audience is drawn into her innermost world. A world where sadness, anger, joy, helplessness and strength coexist. An intimate solo, extremely sensitively choreographed by Ioannis Mandafounis, new Artistic Director of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.

  • Dance

READING: FAUNA FAUNA

WITH JOHANNA MAXL (LEIPZIG)

The reading with Johanna Maxl, author of the text for WEREWOLVES BY THE SEA, explores the changing relationships between animals, humans, and machines in the anthropocene, the mutability of identities, werewolves* as embodiments of norm deviations, and their connection to queerness and neurodiversity.

  • Performance
  • Discourse
  • Workshop

WEREWOLVES BY THE SEA

THERMOBOY FK (BERLIN/HANNOVER)

Thermoboy FK embark on a darkly melancholic, enigmatic stage narrative by Johanna Maxl that creates a space for the pleasure of fantasizing and looking.

  • Theatre
  • Performance

THE LONG RUN

SEBASTIAN WEBER DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

In the solo THE LONG RUN, Sebastian Weber examines his own role as a white man in a black art form.

  • Dance

RAUSCH | ECSTASY

PATRICIA CAROLIN MAI (HAMBURG)

What on earth could be the reason to celebrate a public feast in the future? On this question, a 100 people from Hamburg and Leipzig gather for an entire night and share their desire to dance.

  • Dance
  • Performance

WERKSTATT: LOVE IN TIMES OF LATE PATRIARCHY

SPIRALING STRUCTURES (LEIPZIG)

A fast-paced performance about love, loneliness, community and relationship, in a world of (too?) slowly dissolving structures of patriarchy. Hosted by our two AI's Callidus and Frigga, with a clear opinion and a mediation urge.

  • Performance

SHOWING: BLUEPRINT

OVERHEAD PROJECT (KÖLN/TÜBINGEN)

In their showing, Overhead Project give insight into their upcoming coproduction BLUEPRINT.

  • Contemporary Circus

THE PERSON I AM

TANZLABOR LEIPZIG

Two dancers of Tanzlabor Leipzig draw on their life experiences and explore what they can create together on stage.

  • Dance

FISTS TO FLOWERS

YOTAM PELED & THE FREE RADICALS (BERLIN)

A performance deconstructing and weaving together practices originating from contemporary dance and martial arts.

  • Dance
  • Performance

RECONNECT

SENIORCOMPANY DES LEIPZIGER TANZTHEATERS (LEIPZIG)

A dance theater piece that deals with themes like closeness to nature and the climate crisis in the field of tension between generations.

  • Dance

GESTALTEN

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY by LOFFT – DAS THEATER (Leipzig) + Mirjam Gurtner (Basel)

History and the granite that makes up the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig meet the immediacy and variability of the living body.

  • Dance
  • Performance

ANTHROPO.10: MATERIA

ANDREA SALUSTRI (ITALY/GERMANY)

A choreography for several polystyrene shapes and one human.

  • Contemporary Circus

ANTHROPO.10: ON THE TRAIL OF A LOUSE

GEORG REINHARDT / CLUB REAL (GERMANY)

An alternative walk as part of the festival ANTHROPO.10 - VOM VERSCHWINDEN DES MENSCHEN.

  • Theatre
  • Performance

ANTHROPO.10: BILLIONS OF MICROCOSMIC AUREOLES BEAMING AROUND ME

EVA HINTERMAIER / SIMON KALUS (GERMANY)

A lecture-performance in the context of the festival ANTHROPO.10 - VOM VERSCHWINDEN DES MENSCHEN.

  • Performance
  • Discourse

ANTHROPO.10: NESSUN DORMA

JACH/HOFFMANN-AXTHELM/SCHUBERT/ARND (GERMANY)

The robot Arka, who loves death arias, and the cleaning robot Putzini are the two main characters of this unusual musical theater piece. Can robots have a death wish?

  • Performance
  • Installation

ANTHROPO.10: HIBERNATION

O-TEAM (GERMANY)

A lonely headlamp sets out in search of life. A pack of cleaning robots puts the world in (dis)order. And springtails and woodlice take care of our future...

  • Performance

ANTHROPO.10: TALK: GENTLE HEALING BY MACHINES

SARAH REIMANN / MALIN KUHT AND OTHERS

Talk about the potential of non-human theater.

  • Discourse

ANTHROPO.10: SPILLS

RÓSA ÓMARSDÓTTIR (ISLAND)

In SPILLS Rosa Ómarsdóttir collaborates with the non-human and lets various objects and her own body collide on stage.

  • Dance

TALK: RAGE AGAINST THE CARE:MACHINE

In exchange with Anne Kerlin, Sibylla Vričić Hausmann and Studio Urbanistan we take time out from everyday life. Time to get into conversation. Ice cream, soda pop and shandy are available to cool down our anger at the circumstances.

  • Discourse

KATAPULT: URANIA CULTURE PALACE

ELIZA GOLDOX + LUIZE MENDES DIAZ, FADI ZUMOT, AYDA AGWA, PIA ACHTERNKAMP

Artist Eliza Goldox's multimedia stage installation and performance deconstructs Christa Wolf's 1972 narrative "Selbstversuch."

  • Performance
  • Installation

KATAPULT: REWORLDING GENDERS

CHARLIE FOUCHIER + NOAH JACOBI (LEIPZIG)

A choreographic lecture-performance about intersectionality and gender systems.

  • Performance

KATAPULT: LICHT.23 | LIGHT.23

WERKBÜHNE LEIPZIG

Interactive concert performance for soprano, piano, electronic music, light and audience.

  • Performance
  • Music

KATAPULT: BAGGERN | EXCAVATE

STUDIO URBANISTAN

In a ballet for three "mothers" in excavators on a derelict site in Leipzig, STUDIO URBANISTAN poses the question of the place of parents in the (working) world in a rough setting with large machines.

  • Performance
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KATAPULT: DINGS OF DESIRE

MARTY DAMOUR / DIE SOZIALE FIKTION (LEIPZIG)

Marty Damour presents a solo installation performance about loneliness and online shopping.

  • Performance
  • Installation

IN ZUNGEN – HEX*EN HAUFEN KONSENS | IN TONGUES - WITCHES PILES CONSENSUS

ADELE*MIKE DITTRICH FRYDETZKI / DIE SOZIALE FIKTION (LEIPZIG)

Who are the witches of today? At which piles do we gather for rituals? How can we celebrate consensuality?

  • Performance

WE'RE USED TO BEING DARKER

GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN/LEIPZIG)

In the setting of a bowling hall, the piece invites you to take a look into a closed society. 10 women*. 10 episodes. Off the track. Spare!

  • Performance
  • Dance