AUF PFERDEN | ON HORSES
EVA HINTERMAIER / SIMON KALUS (LEIPZIG)
The performance questions human-horse relationships and develops a narrative about dominance, mutual influence, and the longing of interspecies harmony.
- Performance
CRACKS IN TIME AND THE APPEARANCE OF NEW GOD*ESSES
BRÜTTING/JACOBO/KONATÉ/MANHÃES/MARÇALL/PINAY (LEIPZIG/BERLIN/BELÉM)
It's time to enter a new age: The Age of Pleasure. A ceremonial performance with elements of dance theatre, sci-fi, club beats and storytelling.
- Performance
- Dance
- Theatre
LEIPZIG DENKT: COURAGE & DISPLEASURE
Interdisciplinary festival of thought, dialogue and art
LEIPZIG DENKT is an interdisciplinary festival of thought, dialogue and art. In 2024 it is dedicated to the phenomena of courage, displeasure and alienation. The festival creates and tests spaces in different settings for thinking and talking together in public.
- Discourse
ANATOMY OF ENCOUNTER
TANZLABOR LEIPZIG
The performance examines the fear of contact and desire for contact that every single person brings to an encounter with someone they don't know.
- Dance
- Performance
FILM: SOB A TERRA DO ENCOBERTO
Libra, Xan Marçall
A film mixing ficiton and documentary to tell about the realities of seven trans* people and travestis in the north of Brazil.
- Discourse
WORKSHOP: REST AS AN ACCESS TO CREATIVITY
CHARLES A. WASHINGTON / PINKMETALPETAL PRODUCTIONS (DRESDEN)
In this workshop, Charles A. Washington from Pinkmetalpetal Productions shares insights into his latest movement research, which he is developing during his "TANZPAKT in residence" at LOFFT - DAS THEATER.
- Workshop
- Dance
SHOWING: REST AS AN ACCESS TO CREATIVITY
CHARLES A. WASHINGTON / PINKMETALPETAL PRODUCTIONS (DRESDEN)
Charles A. Washington and the participants of the workshop of the same name present the results of their joint work on the theme of rest as the foundation of creative work.
- Workshop
- Dance
SEANAPS FESTIVAL 2024 PRESENTS: HIT
GRETA GRANDERATH (HAMBURG)
The feminist concert performance HIT explores and demonstrates the power, virtuosity, sloppiness and tenderness of musical instruments and tools.
- Performance
- Music
NO TOMORROW
M.OVER COMPANY (LEIPZIG)
Immerse yourself in an energetic atmosphere with a club-like ambience and a flashback to the noughties. Join us on a journey through time between day and night.
- Dance
LIEBE | LOVE
TOASPERN|MOELLER (LEIPZIG/COPENHAGEN)
Can one make themselves vulnerable in romantic relationships without being hurt in return? In their duet LIEBE | LOVE toaspern|moeller explore the various states of vulnerability that are prerequisites for intimate relationships and being in love.
- Dance
- Music
LIEBE | LOVE
TOASPERN|MOELLER (LEIPZIG/COPENHAGEN)
Can one make themselves vulnerable in romantic relationships without being hurt in return? In their duet LIEBE | LOVE toaspern|moeller explore the various states of vulnerability that are prerequisites for intimate relationships and being in love.
- Dance
- Music
ÜBUNGSLABOR: INTIMITÄT, NÄHE, DISTANZ UND KONSENS | WORKSHOP
ALEXANDER HAHNE (HAMBURG)
A group of unknown individuals come closer and collectively explore situational intimacy, closeness, and distance. Through guided physical exercises, this laboratory of practice experiments with bodily communication within the group and in pairs.
- Workshop
11 GEGEN 11 - EIN TANZSPIEL | 11 VS. 11 - A DANCE BATTLE
DONYA AHMADIFAR + CREW | GEMS CREW | GO PLASTIC COMPANY | NIK KEMENY + CREW
In line with European Football Championship 2024 in Leipzig, LOFFT brings together various dance crews to explore the choreographic potential of football through a dance battle.
- Dance
LEIPZIGT TANZT!: SULLE SPONDE DEL LAGO – ON THE SHORES OF THE LAKE
ALESSANDRO SCHIATTARELLA (BASEL) & FORWARD DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)
As part of the festival LEIPZIG TANZT! the FORWARD DANCE COMPANY takes a critical look at one of the most famous works of classical ballet: Swan Lake.
- Dance
OFFENE RÄUME - 16. KONGRESS DER GESELLSCHAFT FÜR THEATERWISSENSCHAFT (GTW)
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft und CCT der Universität Leipzig
Every two years, the German-speaking specialist community of theater and dance studies gathers to share the latest research findings and discuss current trends in the practice of theater, dance, and performance.
- Discourse
WE HOPE THIS HELPS
ILDIKÓ TÓTH & JONE SAN MARTÍN (LEIPZIG/BERLIN)
What makes us human is the ability to experience and intuitively respond to the moment. How can dance make this unique aspect of being human tangible?
- Dance
DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN | THE ART OF REMAINING MANY
BUNDESWEITE FOREN FÜR KUNST, FREIHEIT UND DEMOKRATIE
The Fonds Darstellende Künste initiates a journey through eight cities with DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN | THE ART OF REMAINING MANY, standing for art, freedom, and democracy in various gatherings. The two-day program of debates and performances in Leipzig will take place at LOFFT - DAS THEATER and at the Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig.
- Theatre
- Discourse
- Performance
WAS IST DENN DA IM OSTEN LOS? | WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE EAST?
WESSER | MECKERT (LEIPZIG/BERLIN)
A staged, participatory discourse format as part of the project "WIR KRIEGEN EUCH ALLE!" | "WE GET YOU ALL!" by WESSER | MECKERT.
- Discourse
- Performance
- Music
SUNNY SUNDAY
LINA MAJDALANIE & RABIH MROUÉ
It was a sunny Sunday in the year 2016 when, in a small church in a small town in Poland, an exceedingly peculiar wedding took place. It gathered the living and the dead, merging fiction and reality, politics and fairy tales.
- Performance
DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN | THE ART OF REMAINING MANY
BUNDESWEITE FOREN FÜR KUNST, FREIHEIT UND DEMOKRATIE
The Fonds Darstellende Künste initiates a journey through eight cities with DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN | THE ART OF REMAINING MANY, standing for art, freedom, and democracy in various gatherings. The two-day program of debates and performances in Leipzig will take place at LOFFT - DAS THEATER and at the Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig.
- Theatre
- Discourse
- Performance
SÄCHSISCHES THEATERTREFFEN: THE GREAT GRAND OTHER
M. MCCRAE / D. ZAITEV / M. SCHÖNIJAHN / M. PIROSCHIK (DRESDEN/BERLIN/LEIPZIG)
Between scenic concert, installation, and performance, THE GREAT GRAND OTHER explores the transmission of war memories and traumas across generations.
- Music
- Performance
SHOWING: DAS HOTEL IM KARUSSELL | THE HOTEL IN THE CAROUSEL
RUMPEL PUMPEL THEATER (BERLIN)
The third piece from the Rumpel Pumpel Theater Collective will premiere this summer as part of the Kunstfest Weimar. In the showing attached to their residency here at LOFFT, they will offer first insights.
- Theatre
WERKSTATT: MOTHER, ME, THE OTHER
MMTO (LEIPZIG)
In an exploration of societal images and stigmas, the play negotiates the relationships between single mothers and their daughters.
- Performance
24/7 NEUE TODSÜNDEN | 24/7 NEW SINS
POLSKI TEATR TAŃCA + BODYTALK (POZNAŃ/MÜNSTER)
Do you fancy sins? In the co-production by bodytalk and Polski Teatr Tańca Poznań, dancefluencers and infludancers ask: Is it necessary?
- Dance
- Theatre
OFF EUROPA: VZDUCH (AIR)
TABULA RASA (PRAGUE)
A playful, magically twisted play that criticises the actions or inactions of Western people as well as a general carelessness in dealing with resources and the natural environment.
- Performance
- Theatre
OFF EUROPA: OLD POND
ZSUZSA RÓZSAVÖLGYI + COMPANY (BUDAPEST)
A wonderfully fluid dance performance about habitats, (co-)existence and survival. The dancers become creatures of all kinds in an imaginary body of water.
- Dance
OFF EUROPA: MINING STORIES
SILKE HUYSMANS & HANNES DEREERE (BRUSSELS)
A theatrical investigation into a serious environmental disaster that occurred near the Brazilian city of Mariana in 2015. A synthesis of witness voices, economic considerations and reflections on the categorisation of memories.
- Performance
OFF EUROPA: I PSYCHI TIS ANTIGONIS - THE SOUL OF ANTIGONE
PLAVO POZORIŠTE (BELGRAD)
This impressively intense (concentrated, loud, physical) play focuses on Virginia Woolf's thoughts on feminism and pacifism, crossed with Sophocles' ancient model play Antigone.
- Theatre
UN AMOR ODER DIE ERFINDUNG MEINER MUTTER UN AMOR | OR THE INVENTION OF MY MOTHER
PLAN MEE (NÜRNBERG)
It all starts on a Friday. The mother goes flamenco dancing. She takes her daughter with her. The daughter watches her mother, marvelling, admiring, seeing a strong, independent woman.
- Dance
- Performance
WORKSHOP: MELANCHOLIC MARATHON
CINDY HAMMER / GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN/LEIPZIG)
In this workshop, Cindy Hammer from the go plastic company offers insights into her movement research and the process of developing MELANCHOLIC MARATHON.
- Workshop