POLITIK IM FREIEN THEATER: ICH KANN’S NICHT LASSEN. | I CAN'T HELP IT.

JANNE GREGOR / TANZKOMPLIZEN

A PARTICIPATORY PIECE FEATURING KRUMP DANCERS.

Four Krump dancers invite the audience to take up space and dance without words, but with lots of movement. The boundaries between stage and auditorium become blurred.

• Dance
• Kids & Youth

WORKSHOP: LET'S DE_RE_CONSTRUCT_COLLAGE

FRANZ&FRIDA - ATELIER (LEIPZIG)

A creative collage workshop on deconstruction, composition, and reinterpretation as part of UNKNOWN COEFFICIENT with Franz&Frida - Atelier.

• Workshop

UNKNOWN COEFFICIENT

MATIÈRE MOBILE / MARIE GOURDAIN (LYON)

Everything happens at once: this dance piece pauses a single moment and breaks it down into its individual choreographic parts — just before everything collides.

• Dance

WORKSHOP: KÖRPER – BAU – MATERIAL | BODY – STRUCTURE – MATERIAL

FELIX BAUMANN | VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

In his workshop, Felix Baumann invites participants to an experimental laboratory at the intersection of body, construction, material, and humor, inspired by the themes of his new project BAU HOW, which is scheduled to go into production in 2026.

• Workshop
• Contemporary Circus
• Theatre

WERKSTATT: WURZELN / ROOTS

VERONIKA HEISIG (BERLIN)

In search of radical movement, the piece dives beneath the earth's surface into the world of roots. There, the mysterious life of a root spirit unfolds...

• Dance
• Performance

BEYOND THE END OF YOUR NOSE

LOTTE MUELLER (INTERNATIONAL)

Everything is connected. What happens when someone lets go? With BEYOND THE END OF YOUR NOSE, the Lotte Mueller Company explores the dynamic relationship between responsibility, order, and chaos.

• Contemporary Circus
• Dance
• Music

READING: NOSTALGIA

André Kubiczek (Berlin)

In NOSTALGIA, André Kubiczek paints a somewhat different picture of life in the GDR – from the perspective of a binational family trying to settle into everyday life.

• Discourse

SCENIC LESUNG: KRYOSTASE (WORKING TITLE)

MISSINGDOTS (DRESDEN)

Between the longing for immortality and the fear of death: in a staged reading, missingdots delves into the world of cryonics.

• Theatre

OSTOPIA – EIN TÄNZERISCHES KAMMERSPIEL | OSTOPIA – A DANCING CHAMBER PLAY

M.OVER COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

OSTOPIA is not a real place, but rather a scenario in the present: this intimate dance creates a private space in the public sphere, questioning identity and utopia.

• Dance

#SCHATZSUCHE | #TREASUREHUNT

KAHMANN & MOSQUERA (BERLIN/LEIPZIG)

In a poetic dance journey, a dancer, together with the young audience, discovers constantly changing natural phenomena such as sand, water, and sound.

• Kids & Youth
• Dance
• Theatre
• Performance

NACHHALL | REVERBERATION

SENIORCOMPANY OF THE LEIPZIGER TANZTHEATER

In this piece, the senior company of the Leipziger Tanztheater embarks on a poetic journey into the world of personal and collective memories.

• Dance
• Theatre

DIGITALE TRÄUME – ZWISCHEN DDR-VERGANGENHEIT UND HIGHTECH-ZUKUNFT

ECHOLOT: THE SERIES OF TALKS AT LOFFT

Experts take a comprehensive look at the historical past of the GDR and the digital future of Saxony as a location for high-tech industry.

• Discourse

SILICON DREAMS

OUTOFTHEBOX (BERLIN/HANNOVER)

Between historical finds and speculative scenarios, SILICON DREAMS sheds light on the microchip as a global instrument of power—and as a surprising chapter in East German technological history.

• Theatre
• Performance
• Installation

WERKSTATT: FREUNDINNEN | GIRLFRIENDS

KLARA ANNEMARIE REWICKI (LEIPZIG)

A story about sixty years of friendship, about evenings spent in bars in East and West Berlin, about annual entry permit applications, and the certainty of hearing each other on the phone at 10 p.m. every night.

• Theatre

TALK: BODY, DANCE AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE

Dr Gustavo Fijalkow, Steven Solbrig and Helena Wölfl

Following OPENING, the political dimension of bodies in their diversity, dance and performance as well as the political significance of space will be examined.

• Discourse

OPENING

MIRJAM GURTNER + FORWARD DANCE COMPANY BY LOFFT – DAS THEATER

OPENING, the opening piece of Kunstfest Weimar 2024 is coming to LOFFT as an adapted stage version: in the black box, it addresses the fragility of human existence between isolation and solidarity.

• Dance

WERKSTATT: SEENSUCHT – AUF DEN SPUREN VON COSPUDEN

KOHL.LEKTIV (LEIPZIG)

Where the fuck is Cospuden? From excavated hole to swimming lake: Dive into the (hi)story of Cospuden.

• Performance

VISITING: DRAWING CIRCLE AT LOFFT

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY, Katharina Zimmerhackl

The HALLE 14 drawing circle will be led by the artist Katharina Zimmerhackl and will take place as part of the rehearsals for OPENING by the FORWARD DANCE COMPANY at LOFFT.

• Workshop

KATAPULT: OH

NEUE SORGFALT POM POM POM (LEIPZIG)

We are entering an archive. [Not now, but soon.] This archive is a hole. [A pile of holes!] We're going in there now.

• Performance

KATAPULT: HOME/NOT ALONE

NAIN THEATERCOLABORATIV (LEIPZIG)

What if we could not only look at our current reality from the past and present, but also from the future? An installative archive for the ideas of tomorrow.

• Performance
• Theatre

KATAPULT: TORNADO'S EYE

DAVID EISELE (ALTENBURG)

A musician starts dancing with his cello. Chairs spin all by themselves and glasses turn into acrobatic marvels. Join us for a hypnotic journey between madness and meditation.

• Contemporary Circus

KATAPULT: BINGOWINGS

KOLLEKTIV BINGO (LEIPZIG)

There is something to win. Not a one-off. It is played all in. Full risk. Four Bingowinger women of age+ invite you. BINGO.

• Performance
• Theatre

KATAPULT: _PLEX

toaspern|moeller (Leipzig/Kopenhagen)

A dance performance in the wake of pop culture. Inspired by John Oswald's Plexure (1993), it transforms fragments of sound into breathtaking movements and questions the fast pace and sensory overload of our time.

• Dance

KATAPULT: CHIRP

ALTMAYER / BOHNENBERGER / FUCHS / KLÄY / SCHULZ (MUNICH/BERLIN)

CHIRP is a participatory space and sound installation dedicated to extinct bird songs.

• Installation

KATAPULT: OPENER WITH OPERA

Festival opening with Tamtam and the Leipzig Underground Opera.

• Music

WRITING WORKSHOP: BETWEEN WANDERLUST AND HOMESICKNESS

AMELIE MAHLSTEDT (LEIPZIG)

An autobiographical writing workshop on wanderlust and homesickness as part of NOSTALGIA with Dr Amelie Mahlstedt (in German).

• Workshop

NOSTALGIA

PLAN MEE (NUREMBERG)

Homesickness or wanderlust? Language, movement and sound create a dialogue between these two feelings.

• Performance

WERKSTATT: TRANS*FAIR

KONZEPTKOMBINAT (BERLIN)

Football is one of the most popular sports among queer people, but trans*, inter*, agender and non-binary (TIAN*) people often find it difficult to participate in the league. This structural transphobia is countered with queer joy in sport, because TIAN* people can kick damn well!

• Theatre

OFF EUROPA: PERFORMING LOVE

RONI CHADASH & COMPANY (ISRAEL)

The young ensemble dances the idea of LOVE in many facets, as effectively as warm-heartedly as a process and as a physical state - charismatic and moving.

• Dance

OFF EUROPA: HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

HEARTEFACT (SERBIEN)

For two months, the director and her actors delved into the darkest corners of human interaction to create a work that offers the audience what theatre has been known for millennia - catharsis.

• Theatre