
WERKSTATT PLUS: LET’S BE QUINGS
AKADEMIE DER ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN VERZWEIFLUNG (HILDESHEIM)
Drag, stand-up comedy and activism: two chronically ill bodies looking for ways to empower themselves.
- Performance
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KOREALITY – (K)EINE GEISTERBESCHWÖRUNG | KOREALITY - (NO/)A NECROMANCY
BODYTALK +SIDANCE (MÜNSTER/SEOUL)
According to Habermas, modern media and digitalization cause a gain in reality as well as a loss of reality. Bodytalk takes the audience into the in-between using the example of Korea and Korean culture.
- Dance
- Theatre
- Music

SHOWING: ALEX FRANZ ZEHETBAUER
ALEX FRANZ ZEHETBAUER (VIENNA)
A showing of the FREISCHWIMMEN residency within the project AN EVENING WITH, which explores the tradition of song as a as a way to underscore the coming together of people.
- Music
- Performance

BATS
Sebastian Weber Dance Company (Leipzig)
BATS echoes a sanitized and digital world where everyone is still connected - even if by contagion. Rough, body-smart tap dance combines with hyper-realistic visual effects and networks this hybrid beyond the confines of the stage.
- Dance

DENNOCH! | THOUGH! - ON THE SITUATION OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
A DOCUMENTARY BY JANINA MÖBIUS
Film screening and cultural-political salon on the situation of the independent performing arts in cooperation with Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.
- Discourse
- Performance
- Dance
- Theatre
- Contemporary Circus

Presentation: International Caroline Neuber Scholarship
Samara Hersch (Amsterdam)
As part of the International Caroline-Neuber-Scholarship of the City of Leipzig, Samara Hersch will be a guest in Leipzig in February 2023.
- Theatre
- Performance

ACHTERBAHN | ROLLER COASTER
THORD1S (HAMBURG)
Solo so low, solo so high. A musical solo manifesto for gender justice in the music industry.
- Music
- Performance

CANCELLED | WERKSTATT: DRINGENDE BEDÜRFNISSE | URGENT NEEDS
BESETZT KOLLEKTIV (LEIPZIG)
(Where) to shit or not to shit? Hamlet has to go big. A performative voyage of discovery of public institutions of need (WCs) and their system relevance.
- Performance

SHARING PRACTICE - SHARING MOVES
PERFORMANCE - TRAINING WITH LAU LUKKARILA (WIEN)
Before the performance of KNEADING TO THE 3RD MILLENNIA there will be a training with choreographer and performer Lau Lukkarila on Saturday, 04.02.
- Workshop
- Dance
- Performance

LIVE-PODCAST-TALK: FROM MONKEYS AND HUMANS | VON AFFEN UND MENSCHEN
After the performance ERNST, a live podcast discussion will take place on Saturday, 28.01, moderated by Dirk Hentze, zoo reporter of the podcast Elefant, Tiger & Co. Alma Toaspern and Mathias Monrad Møller, as well as Prof. Dr. Daniel Haun from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology will also be part of the talk.
- Discourse

ERNST
TOASPERN | MØLLER (LEIPZIG/KOPENHAGEN)
Dancer Alma Toaspern's solo, staged with Danish composer Mathias Monrad Møller, is a sparkling tribute to humorlessness.
- Dance
- Music

TALK: GENDEREQUALITY AND TEAMWORK IN JAZZ AND TAP-DANCE
Accompanying the production COSMIC TAP is a talk with step dancer Andrea Alvergue and jazz musician Myrsini Bekakou, focusing on women's perspectives on collective work in the music and dance scene. The talk will be moderated by Susann Hommel, who is an association board member at Music S Women*.
- Discourse

COSMIC TAP
NIKOLAI KEMENY (LEIPZIG)
Two tap dancers and two musicians take the audience on an exciting, audio-visual improvised encounter that leaves time and space behind.
- Dance
- Music

WERKSTATT: MAKRELEN FESTIVAL
SUNGWOO JUNG
A festival of a special kind where people are salted and mackerel decide over life and death.
- Theatre

EMBRACE EMBRACE – LOFFT IN CONCERT: KRISTA PAPISTA
Queer, political, challenging - Krista Papista invites you to a queer-folkloristic punk spectacle.
- Music

EXHIBITION + READING
Nesren Shalgen (Leipzig) + HOT TOPIC! (Leipzig)
The closing concert of the EMBRACE EMBRACE series with Krista Papista will be accompanied by a reading of the queer erotic magazine HOT TOPIC! and an exhibition by the Syrian artist Nesren Shalgen.
- Installation
- Discourse

HELLO TO EMPTINESS
MOUVOIR / STEPHANIE THIERSCH (COLOGNE)
Is loss a part of us? What heals the wounds? Does death have a sound? A performative reflection on social vulnerability and how to deal with grief.
- Performance
- Music

WERKSTATT: HEAVY HEARTED / WITH A HEAVY HEART
JASON, KOEN, SCHABBACH, RUMBUTIS, WIMMER, SCHALL (LEIPZIG / HALLE / WIEN)
heavy hearted/with a heavy heart
of safety and longing.
The performers Hannah Wimmer, Anna Schall & Chiara Mila Jason build a nest. In doing so, they embark on a search for strategies to create places of togetherness.
- Performance

SEISMIC
VON B BIS Z (BERLIN) / CIE MATIÈRE MOBILE (LYON) / TYHLE (PRAG)
A performance on an extremely unstable platform that enormously challenges the balance and control of the protagonists.
- Dance
- Theatre
- Installation

WERKSTATT: SAD GIRL THEATRE
NADJA SÜHNEL (LEIPZIG/HILDESHEIM)
SAD GIRL THEATRE is a solo show about being sad, an associative drift through the aesthetics, sounds and narratives of a very specific feeling.
- Performance

DER TRAUM | THE DREAM
TANZLABOR LEIPZIG
Four dancers from Tanzlabor Leipzig search for the border between reality and dream.
- Dance

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

"WIR KRIEGEN EUCH ALLE!" | "WE GET YOU ALL!"
WESSER | MECKERT AND BAND (LEIPZIG/BERLIN)
It gets loud, it gets wild, it gets tender. With five former DDR punk musicians, the theater hall becomes a punk concert - dancing is allowed!
- Performance
- Music
- Theatre

EURO-SCENE LEIPZIG: SULLE SPONDE DEL LAGO – ON THE SHORES OF THE LAKE
ALESSANDRO SCHIATTARELLA (BASEL) & FORWARD DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)
In co-production with euro-scene Leipzig – EUROPÄISCHES TANZ- UND THEATERFESTIVAL, FORWARD DANCE COMPANY takes a critical look at one of the most famous works of classical ballet: Swan Lake.
- Dance

MIND THE RAGE
GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN/LEIPZIG/BERLIN)
A performative tour on the theme of RAGE, attempting to find the positive power of anger.
- Dance
- Performance

LESBIAN VAMPIRE FANTASY
CHICKS* FREIES PERFORMANCEKOLLEKTIV (BERLIN)
The musical nightmare of patriarchy: queer vampires of different generations are choreographing themselves in a performative musical through queer histories and presents, sucking the blood out of the veins of cis-heteronormativity.
- Performance
- Music

WERKSTATT: SHAME ON US
LICK YOUR WOUNDS (LEIPZIG)
SHAME ON US ventures an attempt to approach female shame, to examine it as well as to question it in moments of one's own life.
- Performance

EMBRACE EMBRACE – LOFFT IN CONCERT: THORD1S
Vocals that go to your heart, saxophone cuddle vibes and bass for the body - neither man nor woman, simply: THORD1S!
- Music

MÜLL | WASTE
STUDIO URBANISTAN (LEIPZIG)
WASTE - now also on your doorstep! In a performative audio tour, the audience goes on the trail of our daily waste with headphones.
- Performance

LEIPZIG DENKT: ALARM UND UTOPIE | LEIPZIG THINKS: ALARM AND UTOPIA
INTERDISCIPLINARY THINK-TALK-ART-FESTIVAL
In a time of social discord and bubble-ization, the festival creates and tests spaces for thinking and speaking together in different settings.
- Discourse
- Performance
- Workshop