LET'S DO AFTER-CARE!

Audience discussion after DER FALL MUTTER | THE MOTHER CASE

In the audience discussion following DER FALL MUTTER | THE MOTHER CASE, we’ll be talking with missingdots, “you are warmly invited,” and care:ativ about care work as a collective responsibility.

• Discourse

SEX AND RAGE. EAT ME RAW

BOUIZEDKANE/BRÜTTING/EGHTESSADI/EMAMI KHANSARI/KONATÉ/YUPANQUI (LEIPZIG/U.A.)

A ritual performance blending dance, sound, and storytelling: Three bodies, driven by their rage, desire, and memories, search for what remains raw and untamed within them.

• Performance
• Theatre

VISITING: DRAWING CIRCLE AT LOFFT

Anna Kautenburger, missingdots

The HALLE 14 drawing circle is led by the artist Anna Kautenburger and takes place as part of missingdots residency at LOFFT.

• Workshop

WERKSTATT: LIE BACK AND THINK OF ENGLAND

JOSIANE SEGAR/CONNOR FOX/SOPHIE SCHULZE (LEIPZIG)

LIE BACK AND THINK OF ENGLAND explores the absurdities of Victorian sexual morality through texts and images drawn from erotica, medicine, law, and personal diaries.

• Theatre

KETTE UND KÜCHE | CHAIN AND KITCHEN

THOMAS ACHTNER + ROTER STERN LEIPZIG E.V. CYCLING GROUP

CLASS ISSUES (KLASSENFRAGEN)
Bike repair session and kitchen for everyone.

• Workshop

BAU HOW

FELIX BAUMANN & CO. / VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

POSTPONED:
Due to a performer's illness, the performances have had to be postponed to 30 October to 1 November.

In BAU HOW, Felix Baumann transforms the construction site into a performative playground - where everyday work routines, accidents and materials are staged into absurd, poetic images - through circus, dance and humor.

• Contemporary Circus
• Theatre

DANCE MOVES DEMOCRACY: HOUSE-DANCE-WORKSHOP & CLOSING EVENT

4fT – TANZPLATTFORM LEIPZIG / MANDY UNGER

Tanzplattform Leipzig invites you to experience four hours of movement and connection. The program features a House Grooves dance workshop, followed by an inivitation to share perspectives on democracy. Snacks will be provided.

• Workshop
• Dance

PARALLELE WELTEN

TANZLABOR LEIPZIG

What if every decision we make created a new reality? Different perspectives, coincidences and worlds overlap. An evening exploring what is – and what could just as easily have been.

• Dance
• Theatre

NACHHALL | REVERBERATION

SENIORCOMPANY OF THE LEIPZIGER TANZTHEATER

In this piece, the senior company of the Leipziger Tanztheater embarks on a poetic journey into the world of personal and collective memories.

• Dance
• Theatre

THE WORLDSHIP

YOLANDA MORALES (HAMBURG)

Can colonialism and climate change be separated? Together with her ensemble, Yolanda Morales explores movements that run deeper than we realise and creates a new sense of togetherness on stage.

• Dance
• Performance

TUNE BACK (TIME)

GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN/LEIPZIG)

go plastic company explores nostalgia as a condition of the present. Between fragments of memory, digital landscapes and embodied experience, a choreographic journey unfolds through loops, glitches, collective memories and the futures we once dreamed of.

• Dance
• Performance

ALLES ZIEHT VORBEI | EVERYTHING PASSES

ANDPARTNERSINCRIME (FRANKFURT/MAIN)

A video walk through Grünau as part of the International Day of Children's Rights #TurnTheWorldBlue.

• Performance

NEW WAVES

LEIPZIGER BALLETT

Dancers of the Leipzig Ballet are presenting their first choreographic works on the LOFFT stage.

• Dance

WERKSTATT: UN/AGED – VON LINIEN & FALTEN | UN/AGED – ON LINES & WRINKLES

TANIA-MARIA STERNBERG (LEIPZIG)

To what extent are age, gender and prevailing beauty standards intertwined? An intimate exploration of new ways of approaching ageing.

• Performance

IM PALMENHAUS | IN THE PALM HOUSE

RUTH KEMNA (BERLIN)

A performance in which dance, music, and video art create an imagined palm house —
as an utopian and critical space for reflection on our relationship with plants, the archiving of nature, and lost sounds.

• Music
• Performance
• Dance

LISTENING WORKSHOP: IM PALMENHAUS | IN THE PALM HOUSE

RUTH KEMNA (BERLIN)

In her workshop, Ruth Kemna invites participants to rediscover the relationships between plants, people and spaces on the Spinnerei site.

• Workshop
• Music
• Installation

SPIELWIESE | PLAYGROUND 2026

LEIPZIGER TANZTHEATER

Between pleasure and abstinence, freedom and constraint: 13 short pieces – choreographed by dancers from the Leipziger Tanztheater – curiously and polyphonically explore the vast field of temptation.

• Dance
• Theatre

FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION: SIEBEN BRÜCKEN | SEVEN BRIDGES

Irina Pauls, Ralph Grüneberger und Dr. Theresa Jacobs

In the artist talk, Irina Pauls and Ralph Grüneberger explore the connection between Leipzig’s coal mining landscapes, the cultural history of the GDR as seen through biographical accounts, and the experience of transformation today.

• Discourse

SIEBEN BRÜCKEN | SEVEN BRIDGES

IRINA PAULS (LEIPZIG)

Dancing together connects people – then as now. A dance piece about the landscape transformed by coal mining and its unifying power. Elements of folk dance are adapted into a contemporary dance practice, creating something new.

• Dance

VISITING: DRAWING CIRCLE AT LOFFT

Marlet Heckhoff, Aoife McAtamney, Drawing circle HALLE 14

The HALLE 14 drawing circle is led by the artist Marlet Heckhoff and takes place as part of Aoife McAtamney’s Tanztriennale residency at LOFFT.

• Workshop

EHRENTAG 2026: #SCHATZSUCHE | #TREASUREHUNT

KAHMANN & MOSQUERA (BERLIN/LEIPZIG)

In a poetic dance journey, a dancer, together with the young audience, discovers ever-changing natural phenomena such as sand, water and sound.

• Kids & Youth
• Dance
• Theatre
• Performance

WERKSTATT: ZUM GEKLEISTETEN KRUG | THE GLUED JUG

ÉMILIE HAUS AND TEAM (LEIPZIG)

A pottery studio, a woman at the potter’s wheel – and the feeling that something isn’t quite right. A theatrical exploration of pottery, between clay, humour and loneliness.

• Theatre

OBERSTUFENABEND | UPPER SCHOOL EVENING GERDA-TARO-GYMNASIUM

BASIC COURSE 11 AND BASIC COURSE 12 AT THE GERDA TARO SCHOOL (LEIPZIG)

The Year 11 and 12 ‘Urban Dance/Urban Dance Theatre’ courses at Gerda-Taro-School are presenting their end-of-year productions here at LOFFT.

• Dance

SHOWING: TANZTRIENNALE COUNTER BALANCE RESIDENCY

AOIFE MCATAMNEY & LUCY O’DONNELL (DUBLIN)

As part of the first Tanztriennale Hamburg, we are hosting Irish musician and choreographer Aoife McAtamney and Dublin's Lexicon Library senior librarian Lucy O’Donnell.

• Dance
• Music
• Discourse

NACHGESCHMACK: GESPRÄCH BEI POMMES SCHRANKE

Artist talk following NACH DER BAHN DIE WENDE. We’ll reflect on the experience together over some chips – in German called Pommes Schranke.

• Discourse

NACH DER BAHN DIE WENDE | AFTER THE LANE, DIE WENDE

AN AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE ABOUT ORIGINS, FUTURES AND LEARNING TO SWIM

Off to the pool! With some headphones on, join STUDIO URBANISTAN as you dive into the social pool and explore the subtle distinctions of German-German identity.

• Performance

TANZFORUM: DOUBLE BILL: YOUNG DANCE

INSIDE/OUT + JUNIORCOMPANY OF THE ELDERS OF LEIPZIGER TANZTHEATERS (LEIPZIG)

TANZFORUM 2026 presents young perspectives on dance: two performances by and featuring young people, exploring urban dance, voice, music and choreographic research.

• Dance
• Music

TANZFORUM: OH DEATHMOTHER OH! RITUALS FOR THE UNSEEN – WORK IN PROGRESS

LIQUID LOGIC (LEIPZIG)

As part of TANZFORUM 2026, the group Liquid Logic invites you to transform fear, grief and longing into a shared physical ritual.

• Performance

OFF EUROPA: IF APHRODITE WAS A MONSTER

IVA SVESHTAROVA + ENSEMBLE (BULGARIEN)

The impressive choreography is inspired by the aesthetics of carnival and the possibilities of the female body to unfold its full potential.

• Dance

OFF EUROPA: THE FALSE FRIENDS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE

DIVADLO FESTE (CZECH REPUBLIC) BASED ON ROBERT MISIK (AUSTRIA)

The play, based on an essay by Austrian journalist Robert Misik, tells the story of a society that despises its foundations, its peripheries.

• Theatre