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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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CHILDREN BORN OF WAR

Three European artist groups give a voice to the children of war in Europe - embedded in a symposium.

  • Discourse
  • Performance

HOLOBIONTINNEN | HOLOBIONTS

EVA HINTERMAIER / SIMON KALUS (LEIPZIG)

A performance installation that plays on a network of people, bacteria, software and machines.

  • Performance

WERKSTATT: AURORA UNTERM GOLDENEN HALBMOND | AURORA UNDER THE GOLDEN CRESCENT

ROTER MOND ENSEMBLE (LEIPZIG)

A scenic song evening in the change between realities and transcultural fairy tale worlds.

  • Music
  • Dance
  • Performance

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

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
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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