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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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ELFENBEIN | IVORY

BOUIZEDKANE/JERAT/KONATÉ/REIMANN/WOLFF (LEIPZIG)

A PERFORMATIVE APPROACH TO A FLESHLESS HERITAGE

What visible and invisible legacies do we carry around with us? An ivory tooth gives its future heiress and four performance artists cause to search for responsibility in a society whose colonial heritage still resides in museums, cellars and bodies.

  • Theatre
  • Performance

COMMANDER

FARM IN THE CAVE (PRAGUE)

Using audiovisual projections and physical theater, the group Farm in the Cave addresses the online radicalization of youth and the immature behavior of our adult society. Follow them into the depths of the Darknet.

  • Performance
  • Theatre

WERKSTATT PLUS: FLYING STORIES OF OUR MOVING FEET

J.A.S. (LEIPZIG/BRÜSSEL/BERLIN)

The aesthetics of our bodies are deeply colonized, this performance looks at the influences of ancestral and non-Western civilizations.

  • Dance
  • Performance

BACKSTAGE-TOUR

As part of the Spinnereirundgang

As part of the Spinnereirundgang, we'll offer drinks, tours, mini-performances and more.

  • Theatre

ALTE BEKANNTE // BEKANNTE ALTE | OLD WELL-KNOWN // WELL-KNOWN OLD

BODYTALK (MÜNSTER)

Once a dancer, forever a dancer. When is a dancer too old to dance? With humor and big pictures, bodytalk approaches aging.

  • Dance
  • Theatre

UND SO KAMEN WIR ZUSAMMEN | AND SO WE CAME TOGETHER

PATRICIA CAROLIN MAI (HAMBURG)

Together with dancers from Leipzig and Hamburg, choreographer Patricia Carolin Mai asks herself if couple dance is needed to touch each other.

  • Dance

POWER TO US: Ballroom 101 - You own everything!

Rahel (Ras 007) und Philip (Phenix Prodigy)

Unfortunately, POWER TO US events cannot take place.

  • Workshop
  • Dance
  • Performance

POWER TO US: Breaking All Levels

Lan Mi Lê (Gems Crew)

Unfortunately, POWER TO US events cannot take place.

  • Dance
  • Workshop
  • Kids & Youth

POWER TO US

WORKSHOPS, READING, PARTY, TALKS

Unfortunately, POWER TO US events cannot take place.

  • Workshop
  • Discourse
  • Dance
  • Performance
  • Kids & Youth

POWER TO US: The power of your voice

Patrick Isermeyer (Leipzig)

Unfortunately, POWER TO US events cannot take place.

  • Workshop
  • Kids & Youth

POWER TO US: Creative writing

Thị Thu Trang Nguyễn (Postmigrantische Störung)

Unfortunately, POWER TO US events cannot take place.

  • Workshop
  • Kids & Youth

INTERSHOP // LOFFT

Leipziger Ballett + LOFFT – DAS THEATER

Choreographic premieres by dancers of the Leipzig Ballet.

  • Dance

TanzDIALOG – AUTOTOMIE: DIE ZEIT DER CHIMÄRE | AUTOTOMY: THE TIME OF CHIME

with Post-organic Bauplan

"Society is building bodies to perform, to work hard, to be masculine or feminine.”

  • Discourse

AUTOTOMIE: DIE ZEIT DER CHIMÄRE | AUTOTOMY: THE TIME OF THE CHIMERA

POST-ORGANIC BAUPLAN (CÓRDOBA/LEIPZIG)

In the interplay of analog, robotic and digital elements, performers, holograms and robotic prostheses build an identical physicality on stage.

  • Performance
  • Dance

WERKSTATT: SPÄTER SOMMER | WORKSHOP: LATE SUMMER

SAUPE+KLEINER+KAPLAN (LEIPZIG)

SPÄTER SOMMER is a dialogue between three friends who together clean out the cellar of media images and social expectations.

  • Theatre

EMBRACE EMBRACE – LOFFT IN CONCERT: LÉON THE SINGER

In search of identity, self-empowerment and intimacy, Léon The Singer explores the boundaries of contemporary pop, recalling Madonna, David Bowie and James Blake.

  • Music

KNEADING TO THE 3RD MILLENNIA

LAU LUKKARILA (VIENNA)

Found objects, band rehearsals, grunge, neediness, out-of-order dances, and dense neural stimuli collide in this dance performance.

  • Performance
  • Dance

LOFFT ON THE PHONE (EN)

Telephone consultation for all

You want to know more about our program?
Not sure if next week s performance or workshop is for you?
Or do you have feedback about your experience at our house?

... then call us!

  • Discourse

MIAMI PUNK

JAMES & PRISCILLA (HANOVER/LEIPZIG)

Based on the novel of the same name by Juan S. Guse, digital visual and sound worlds meet pop songs, novel characters and small utopias for the ongoing state of emergency on stage.

  • Performance

EURO-SCENE LEIPZIG: EINBLICKE | INSIGHTS

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY VON LOFFT – DAS THEATER (LEIPZIG)

The curtain falls and the performance begins. The audience follows the dancers on stage, experiences ups and downs and in the end applause and bowing follow. But how does a dance piece actually take shape, which moments influence the way to the goal?

  • Dance

JOY (EN)

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

JOY is an artistic collection of the fleeting world of feelings that underpin our humanity.

  • Dance

WIR | WE

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

WE is the first production of the newly founded FORWARD DANCE COMPANY, the first professional mixed-abled dance company at LOFFT – DAS THEATER in Saxony. WE dives into the inner worlds of 6 performers with different backgrounds.

  • Dance

KLARE || KANTE | CLEAR || EDGES

TANZLABOR LEIPZIG (LEIPZIG)

Three dancers of the Tanzlabor Leipzig explore spaces, boundaries and clear edges. Dance that opens up the possibility of letting go of patterns and structures and trying out something new.

  • Dance

SCHOOL OF SHAME!

TANZLABOR LEIPZIG IN KOOPERATION MIT POLYMORA INC. (LEIPZIG)

Falling into a hole from the inside, sinking into the ground, resurrecting and singing right into shame`s face. In the SCHOOL OF SHAME! five different bodies investigate the mechanisms of shame and embarrassment.

  • Performance

SHOWING: FOLK FICTION

SEBASTIAN WEBER DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

Open rehearsal! The Sebastian Weber Dance Company gives an insight into their new production FOLK FICTION.

  • Dance

((( SONONAMI ))) (EN)

SLEEPOVER DRONE sonic meditation

12 hours of sonic meditation
Sononami’s dreaming. For a whole twelve hours, at LOFFT on the Spinnerei. In what is usually known as a haven for dance and theatre, this night the air vibrates with drone and ambient sounds.

  • Music

WERKSTATT: BALAGAN BODY (EN)

PATRICIA CAROLIN MAI (HAMBURG/TEL AVIV)

OPEN! NOW!

The dance piece about bodies in states of emergency explores the body as an archive populated by memories. How do extreme states translate into the body?

  • Dance

CANDY´S CAMOUFLAGE (EN)

OPEN! NOW! LIQUID LOFT (WIEN)

CANDY′S CAMOUFLAGE deploys projections of the feminine, drawing on a psychedelic toolset of disguise and illusion, mutation and metamorphosis.

  • Installation
  • Performance

COME AS YOU ARE #2017 (EN)

NIR DE VOLFF / TOTAL BRUTAL (BERLIN)

What happens when Syrian dancers, who performed in their home country in folklore and ballet dance shows, meet the contemporary German dance scene? Can a person overcome the history of his body and start a new journey?

  • Dance
  • Performance

CABOOM

SEBASTIAN WEBER DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

CABOOM is a dance about chaos. About the fears and insecurities that chaos causes. But also about adventures and the chances that arise from chaos.

  • Dance