TALK: BODY, DANCE AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE

Dr Gustavo Fijalkow, Steven Solbrig and Helena Wölfl

Following OPENING, the political dimension of bodies in their diversity, dance and performance as well as the political significance of space will be examined.

• Discourse

OPENING

MIRJAM GURTNER + FORWARD DANCE COMPANY BY LOFFT – DAS THEATER

OPENING, the opening piece of Kunstfest Weimar 2024 is coming to LOFFT as an adapted stage version: in the black box, it addresses the fragility of human existence between isolation and solidarity.

• Dance

WERKSTATT: SEENSUCHT – AUF DEN SPUREN VON COSPUDEN

KOHL.LEKTIV (LEIPZIG)

Where the fuck is Cospuden? From excavated hole to swimming lake: Dive into the (hi)story of Cospuden.

• Performance

VISITING: DRAWING CIRCLE AT LOFFT

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY, Katharina Zimmerhackl

The HALLE 14 drawing circle will be led by the artist Katharina Zimmerhackl and will take place as part of the rehearsals for OPENING by the FORWARD DANCE COMPANY at LOFFT.

• Workshop

KATAPULT: OH

NEUE SORGFALT POM POM POM (LEIPZIG)

We are entering an archive. [Not now, but soon.] This archive is a hole. [A pile of holes!] We're going in there now.

• Performance

KATAPULT: HOME/NOT ALONE

NAIN THEATERCOLABORATIV (LEIPZIG)

What if we could not only look at our current reality from the past and present, but also from the future? An installative archive for the ideas of tomorrow.

• Performance
• Theatre

KATAPULT: TORNADO'S EYE

DAVID EISELE (ALTENBURG)

A musician starts dancing with his cello. Chairs spin all by themselves and glasses turn into acrobatic marvels. Join us for a hypnotic journey between madness and meditation.

• Contemporary Circus

KATAPULT: BINGOWINGS

KOLLEKTIV BINGO (LEIPZIG)

There is something to win. Not a one-off. It is played all in. Full risk. Four Bingowinger women of age+ invite you. BINGO.

• Performance
• Theatre

KATAPULT: _PLEX

toaspern|moeller (Leipzig/Kopenhagen)

A dance performance in the wake of pop culture. Inspired by John Oswald's Plexure (1993), it transforms fragments of sound into breathtaking movements and questions the fast pace and sensory overload of our time.

• Dance

KATAPULT: CHIRP

ALTMAYER / BOHNENBERGER / FUCHS / KLÄY / SCHULZ (MUNICH/BERLIN)

CHIRP is a participatory space and sound installation dedicated to extinct bird songs.

• Installation

KATAPULT: OPENER WITH OPERA

Festival opening with Tamtam and the Leipzig Underground Opera.

• Music

WRITING WORKSHOP: BETWEEN WANDERLUST AND HOMESICKNESS

AMELIE MAHLSTEDT (LEIPZIG)

An autobiographical writing workshop on wanderlust and homesickness as part of NOSTALGIA with Dr Amelie Mahlstedt (in German).

• Workshop

NOSTALGIA

PLAN MEE (NUREMBERG)

Homesickness or wanderlust? Language, movement and sound create a dialogue between these two feelings.

• Performance

WERKSTATT: TRANS*FAIR

KONZEPTKOMBINAT (BERLIN)

Football is one of the most popular sports among queer people, but trans*, inter*, agender and non-binary (TIAN*) people often find it difficult to participate in the league. This structural transphobia is countered with queer joy in sport, because TIAN* people can kick damn well!

• Theatre

OFF EUROPA: PERFORMING LOVE

RONI CHADASH & COMPANY (ISRAEL)

The young ensemble dances the idea of LOVE in many facets, as effectively as warm-heartedly as a process and as a physical state - charismatic and moving.

• Dance

OFF EUROPA: HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

HEARTEFACT (SERBIEN)

For two months, the director and her actors delved into the darkest corners of human interaction to create a work that offers the audience what theatre has been known for millennia - catharsis.

• Theatre

OFF EUROPA: ART ATTACK

NIV SHEINFELD & OREN LAOR (ISRAEL)

This dance piece and happening operates in a field of tension between appealingly proclaimed art theory and unleashed live excess. A dance-intensive, rousing celebration of non-conformity and live experience on stage.

• Dance

OFF EUROPA: DIE GOLDGRÄBER | THE GOLD GRAVES

PUPPENTHEATER ZWICKAU (DEUTSCHLAND)

With 360° film technology, VR glasses and surround sound, a story of searching and longing is brought to life in an artificial world without physical boundaries.

• Theatre

OFF EUROPA: DEVOURER

ALICA MINAR & COL. (SLOWAKEI / TSCHECHIEN / DEUTSCHLAND)

Alica Minar develops a clownesque-tragic figure whose initially naive joy in finding and collecting simple black balls increasingly turns into unbridled greed.

• Dance
• Performance

OFF EUROPA: LET ME C_NATUR

MÁRTA LADJÁNSZKI & ZSOLT VARGA (UNGARN)

What happens when not only the performers are naked, but also the audience?

• Dance
• Performance

OPEN HOUSE

WITHIN THE SPINNEREI TOUR

As part of the Spinnerei-tour we offer guided tours and an open rehearsal.

• Theatre
• Dance

ERINNERN, WAS WAR | REMEMBER WHAT WAS

FILM SCREENING + TALK

The Second World War ended 80 years ago - a time that still shapes us today. Remembering and coming to terms with this dark past has had a profound impact on our understanding of responsibility, guilt and reconciliation.

• Discourse

SYMBIOSIS

KOLJA HUNECK + LUUK BRANTJES (MÜNCHEN/ROTTERDAM)

2 circus artists, 2 handwritings, 1 performance. SYMBIOSOS is a contemporary circus diptych created by Kolja Huneck and Luuk Brantjes combining circus, magie nouvelle and object theatre.

• Contemporary Circus

WERKSTATT: TO TRANSITION

LILI ALEXANDER (LEIPZIG)

The first play by Leipzig drag icon Lili Alexander illuminates a transition in all its facets and poses the question of whether one can really find oneself or whether life remains one big search.

• Theatre
• Performance
• Dance
• Music

Prepare for everything! - About changes and the time afterwards

BARBI MARKOVIĆ, SALWA HOUMSI, TANIA ARCHIMOVICH, ELSA AIDS, FARUK ŠEHIĆ A.O.

The evening programme, organised by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, challenges us to accept the uncertainties of a crisis-ridden present and presents current literature that shows what this means.

• Discourse
• Music

ZU BESUCH: ZEICHENZIRKEL IM LOFFT | VISITING: DRAWING CIRCLE AT LOFFT

David Eisele, Christoph Roßner

The HALLE14 drawing circle will be led by artist Christoph Roßner and will take place as part of the rehearsals for TORNADO'S EYE by David Eisele at LOFFT.

• Workshop

SHOWING: BAU HOW

FELIX BAUMANN | VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

An interdisciplinary research in the field of tension between construction and circus, between craft and humour, between body and material.

• Contemporary Circus
• Dance
• Theatre

WORKSHOP: HA HE HI - HUMORLABOR | HA HE HI - HUMOUR LAB

FELIX BAUMANN | VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

In his new workshop, dance and theatre maker Felix Baumann invites you to explore the relationship between body, material and humour.

• Workshop

GLITZ PREMIERE PARTY

On Friday, March 14th, the premiere party with DJ set by ANKA will take place in the LOFFT foyer after the performance of GLITZ.

• Music
• Dance

GLITZ

SEBASTIAN WEBER DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

A passionate, defiant, witty, poetic homage to the transformative power of the dancefloor.

• Dance