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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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On a dark street a circular headlight shines on a person walking with walking sticks, who has the neck and head of a horse.

OFF EUROPA: FUGK

PASI MÄKELÄ (FINNLAND/TSCHECHIEN)

In FUGK (an abbreviation for ‘Finno-Ugric Garage Kabuki’), folklore and trash meet contemporary live art.

  • Performance
  • Theatre
An almost naked person with a baby-deer head stands in front of a microphone and hides their hands behind their back. On a yellow banner it says: "Who killed Bambi?"

OFF EUROPA: WHO KILLED BAMBI

Çağlar Yiğitoğulları (Türkei/Deutschland)

The minimalist laboratory setting created by Turkish-born artist Çağlar Yiğitoğulları, which offers little protection, increasingly becomes a place for taking stock of precarious lives, not least those of migrants.

  • Performance

OFF EUROPA: THE SPERMBANKERS

CONCERT

Old-school grooves and hard-hitting sound without nostalgic detours or retro tricks: The Spermbankers cultivate a kind of contemporary punk gospel.

  • Music

OFF EUROPA: I LOVE BALLET

Ramona Nagabczyńska & Guests (Polen)

Twenty years after completing their classical dance training, four reflect on their current view of ballet.

  • Dance

WERKSTATT: KNALLKREBS, KUCKUCK & CO | PISTOL SHRIMP, CUCKOO & CO

DAUTZ / FUCHS / HEMMESMANN / POSENENSKE (FRANKFURT(MAIN)/LEIPZIG)

Can music be a means of communication between humans and animals? Using instruments, video clips, puppet parts, and masks, we're falling for the musicality of animals, their lives and their tricks.

  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Performance

ELLA

SEBASTIAN WEBER DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

Between dance, text, percussion and audio recordings, a finely pulsating performance emerges about the power of grandmothers.

  • Dance
A person in a violet top breathes on a mirror in which its reflection is distorted.

WE HOPE THIS HELPS

ILDIKÓ TÓTH (LEIPZIG)

What makes us human is our ability to experience and react intuitively to the moment. How can dance make this unique characteristic of being human tangible?

  • Dance
  • Performance

HELLO NOBODY. ON THE DAMAGE TO BODY, MIND AND TRUTH.

with Miljenko Jergović, Yevgeniy Breyger, Yara Hoffmann, Kinga Tóth among others

This year, the Federal Agency for Civic Education is once again hosting a special evening as part of the Leipzig Book Fair – featuring literature, music and authors from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

  • Discourse
  • Music

SHOWING: BAU HOW

FELIX BAUMANN / VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

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
A group of people moves through a dark room. They are semi-transparent and it seems as if their movements are being stuck in the air.

WERKSTATT: OUT OF JOINT

LEONI EIBES (LEIPZIG)

A family. Shaped by years of shared experiences and memories. Bound, connected and welded together. A seemingly well-functioning system until an exceptional situation lets their world begin to crumble.

  • Dance

I’M HUMMING TO NUMB SOUNDS OF BURSTING

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY + ELSA ARTMANN (LEIPZIG/KÖLN)

How do we keep experiencing togetherness when everything falls apart? A choreographic research for a future among ruins.

  • Dance

MÜLHEIM ABSTURZ RUHR

THECODES – THEATERCOMPANY DENNIS SCHWABENLAND (BERN)

A play about classism, life on welfare, and resistance to the myth of entrepreneurial success stories.

  • Theatre

FROZEN BODY IN A MELTING WORLD

MISSINGDOTS (DRESDEN/LEIPZIG)

A freezing cold performance between the longing for immortality and the fear of death. And the attempt to put everything on hold in order to save the world.

  • Theatre
  • Performance

ECHOLOT: ZWISCHEN DEN WELTEN – ZWISCHEN SPIRITUALITÄT, SELF-CARE UND SINNSUCHE

THE SERIES OF TALKS AT LOFFT

Raunacht practices and the significance of rituals from the perspective of practising spirituality and religion-sensitive psychology.

  • Discourse
[Translate to English:] Vor einem weißen Hintergrund ist eine weiblich gelesene Person mit beiger kurzer Sporthose, weißem Top und weißem Hemd kopfüber an einer Poledance-Stange hängend zu sehen. Die Person hält mit der rechten Hand das um die Stange geschlungene linke Bein in einem Winkel fest, so dass der Oberkörper frei nach unten hängt und das rechte Bein grade nach oben zeigt. Von dem Gesicht der Person sind nur das Kinn, der Mund und die Nase sichtbar, denn der Rest wird von dem offenstehenden und um den Kopf fallenden Hemd verdeckt.

RAU(E)NÄCHTE - A MOVING AUDIO PLAY

GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN)

A space between time and dream opens up: twelve figures, born of myths and rituals, weave dance, sound and narrative into a sensual journey through the mysterious nights of transition.

  • Performance
  • Installation

TACTILE TOUR: RAU(E)NÄCHTE - A MOVING AUDIO PLAY

GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN)

TACTILE TOUR: RAU(E)NÄCHTE - A MOVING AUDIO PLAY

  • Performance
  • Installation

FENSTER IN DIE RAU(EN)NÄCHTE | WINDOWS INTO THE RAU(EN)NÄCHTE

GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN)

The go plastic company invites you to a lavishly laid table and offers exclusive insights into its current artistic practice. Time to enjoy!

  • Discourse
  • Performance
[Translate to English:] Eine Person sitzt grinsend auf einer Bank im Grünen, sie hat Kopfhörer auf und trägt einen Duschkopf, der zum Mikrofon umfunktioniert ist.

SHOWING: FREIBAD ZWEITAUCHEN

STUDIO URBANISTAN (LEIPZIG)

The group provides insights into its research at four outdoor swimming pools in eastern and western Germany.

  • Installation
[Translate to English:] Drei weiblich gelesene Personen in sportlichen Anziehsachen stehen aufrecht in einem weißen Raum. Sie sind frontal bis zu ihren Knien sichbar. Sie halten beide Arme angewinkelt mit gespreizten Händen auf der Höhe der Brust vor ihrem Körper.

LASKARINES

VASILIKI BARA (LEIPZIG)

A contemporary dance performance about inner fights, dreams, and boundaries. LASKARINES combines Greek traditional dances with the aesthetics of video games into a choreography of dynamic steps, jumps, and formations.

  • Dance

OPEN DANCE CLASS: GREEK DANCES

GRIECHENHAUS LEIPZIG

Learn the basic steps and background knowledge of traditional Greek dances with the Griechenhaus Leipzig.

  • Dance
  • Workshop

WORKSHOP: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEAF AND HEARING

SERVICESTELLE INKLUSION IM KULTURBEREICH

The two-day workshop provides a space for exchange and networking between deaf and hearing artists.

  • Workshop

ZEIT FÜR ZIRKUS – ZEIT ZUM REDEN: KANN ZIRKUS DIE GESELLSCHAFT RETTEN?

FOLLOWING THE SHOW: A STORY OF DISPLACEMENT

CAN THE CIRCUS SAVE SOCIETY?
Contemporary dance artists talk to circus artists about the potential of the performing arts in the face of social challenges.

  • Discourse

WORKSHOP: TANZ TRIFFT ZIRKUS | DANCE MEETS CIRCUS

PANAMA PICTURES ('S-HERTOGENBOSCH)

Workshop-special at the intersection of dance and contemporary circus with Francesco Barba and Tarek Rammo from Panama Pictures.

  • Workshop
  • Contemporary Circus
  • Dance

A STORY OF DISPLACEMENT

PANAMA PICTURES ('S-HERTOGENBOSCH)

We meet a group of people adrift, searching for a familiar place, a home. Teetering on uncertain ground, they risk going down and being left behind. In this no-person’s land, they rely on each other.

  • Dance
  • Contemporary Circus
[Translate to English:] Auf dem Boden liegen mehrere Seiten einer Partitur verteilt. Die Partiturseiten verdecken den Boden und überlappen sich. Auf den Seiten stehen verschiedene Gläser mit Getränkeresten und zwei Flaschen. Das oberste Partiturblatt ist zerknittert und faltig.

WERKSTATT: VIVA LA PRIMADONNA - EINE KNEIPENOPER | A PUB OPERA

JULIA CANTZLER (LEIPZIG)

Childishly weak or a pawn in male interests, ultimately ending up dead or declared insane. In a pub, surrounded by beer glasses and bar fumes, a singer wrestles with her love of opera and the roles she is expected to play in it.

  • Music
  • Theatre

AUDIENCE TALK: ONE STRIKE SALVATION

ELISABETH NEHRING, YOTAM PELED, NITZAN MOSHE

Audience talk after ONE STRIKE SALVATION with Yotam Peled and Nitzan Moshe, moderated by Dr Elisabeth Nehring.

  • Discourse
[Translate to English:] Eine Person steht auf einem runden Trampolin, was hochkant aufgestellt ist, damit sie in ein Mikrofon sprechen kann, dessen Stativ viel zu hoch eingestellt ist.

ZEIT FÜR ZIRKUS – ZEIT ZUM REDEN: ARTIST TALK – HUMOR AS CULTURALLE PRACTICE

FOLLOWING THE SHOW OF HA HA HA HI!

Felix Baumann reports on his research into humour as a cultural practice.

  • Discourse
[Translate to English:] Eine Person hüpft auf einem Trampolin, um an ein viel zu hoch eingestelltes Mikrofon zu kommen und etwas zu sagen.

ZEIT FÜR ZIRKUS: HA HA HA HI!

FELIX BAUMANN / VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

A mediocre comedian searches for the perfect joke – and discovers the beauty of comical chaos and joyful futility.

  • Dance
  • Performance
  • Theatre
  • Contemporary Circus

ONE STRIKE SALVATION

YOTAM PELED & NITZAN MOSHE (BERLIN)

How does one say goodbye to one's homeland? How does one carry memories forward without being overwhelmed by them? A powerful duet that explores these questions through movement, rhythm and ritualistic actions.

  • Performance
  • Dance

EURO-SCENE LEIPZIG: NON-ALIGNED NEWSREELS – VOICES FROM THE DEBRIS

MILA TURAJLIĆ (BELGRAD / PARIS)

Director Mila Turajlić stumbled upon forgotten film archives from Yugoslav newsreels, which she used to bring the lost legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement back to life on stage. The surprising film footage and personal stories challenge dominant historical narratives.

  • Performance