Archive - LOFFT

OFF EUROPA: LET ME C_NATUR

MÁRTA LADJÁNSZKI & ZSOLT VARGA (UNGARN)

What happens when not only the performers are naked, but also the audience?

Dance
Performance

OPEN HOUSE

WITHIN THE SPINNEREI TOUR

As part of the Spinnerei-tour we offer guided tours and an open rehearsal.

Theatre
Dance

ERINNERN, WAS WAR | REMEMBER WHAT WAS

FILM SCREENING + TALK

The Second World War ended 80 years ago - a time that still shapes us today. Remembering and coming to terms with this dark past has had a profound impact on our understanding of responsibility, guilt and reconciliation.

Discourse

SYMBIOSIS

KOLJA HUNECK + LUUK BRANTJES (MÜNCHEN/ROTTERDAM)

2 circus artists, 2 handwritings, 1 performance. SYMBIOSOS is a contemporary circus diptych created by Kolja Huneck and Luuk Brantjes combining circus, magie nouvelle and object theatre.

Contemporary Circus

WERKSTATT: TO TRANSITION

LILI ALEXANDER (LEIPZIG)

The first play by Leipzig drag icon Lili Alexander illuminates a transition in all its facets and poses the question of whether one can really find oneself or whether life remains one big search.

Theatre
Performance
Dance
Music

Prepare for everything! - About changes and the time afterwards

BARBI MARKOVIĆ, SALWA HOUMSI, TANIA ARCHIMOVICH, ELSA AIDS, FARUK ŠEHIĆ A.O.

The evening programme, organised by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, challenges us to accept the uncertainties of a crisis-ridden present and presents current literature that shows what this means.

Discourse
Music

ZU BESUCH: ZEICHENZIRKEL IM LOFFT | VISITING: DRAWING CIRCLE AT LOFFT

David Eisele, Christoph Roßner

The HALLE14 drawing circle will be led by artist Christoph Roßner and will take place as part of the rehearsals for TORNADO'S EYE by David Eisele at LOFFT.

Workshop

SHOWING: BAU HOW

FELIX BAUMANN | VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

An interdisciplinary research in the field of tension between construction and circus, between craft and humour, between body and material.

Contemporary Circus
Dance
Theatre

WORKSHOP: HA HE HI - HUMORLABOR | HA HE HI - HUMOUR LAB

FELIX BAUMANN | VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

In his new workshop, dance and theatre maker Felix Baumann invites you to explore the relationship between body, material and humour.

Workshop

GLITZ PREMIERE PARTY

On Friday, March 14th, the premiere party with DJ set by ANKA will take place in the LOFFT foyer after the performance of GLITZ.

Music
Dance

GLITZ

SEBASTIAN WEBER DANCE COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

A passionate, defiant, witty, poetic homage to the transformative power of the dancefloor.

Dance

AUS DEM LEBEN - DAS STERBEN BEGLEITEN | OUT OF LIFE - ACCOMPANYING DYING

ECHOLOT – THE TALK SERIES AT LOFFT

We talk about life, death and accompanying the dying. What does it take for a ‘good end’?

Discourse

IBSEN: GESPENSTER | GHOSTS

MARKUS&MARKUS THEATERKOLLEKTIV

In Ibsen's play, Osvald asks his mother for euthanasia. Should it be allowed to determine the end of the own life? Markus&Markus also shed light on this existential question.

Performance

BEHIND THE SCENES: BLEIBT IHR NOCH ZUM ESSEN? | ARE YOU STAYING FOR DINNER?

MARKUS&MARKUS THEATERKOLLEKTIV (HILDESHEIM/BERLIN)

At the dining table with Katarina, Lara-Joy, Markus, Markus and Margot.

Behind the scenes of IBSEN: GESPENSTER | GHOSTS - At the end of the day, Margot always asked ‘Are you staying for dinner?’. Markus&Markus now invite you to join them and offer a glimpse behind Margot's scenes and the backdrop of documentary theatre work.

Installation

WIR IN DER WELT | US IN THE WORLD

BEWEGUNGSINITIATIVE LEIPZIG E.V. (LEIPZIG)

WIR IN UNSERERER WELT | US IN OUR WORLD is a dance project that will be carried out at various kindergartens and primary schools in the towns of Zwenkau and Großpösna from January to May 2025.

Kids & Youth
Dance

DER FALL MUTTER | THE MOTHER CASE

MISSINGDOTS (DRESDEN)

To be or not to be a mother. The missingdots company stages texts by three authors on the subject of motherhood that are full of perspectives.

Theatre

READING: DAS UNWOHLSEIN DER MODERNEN MUTTER | THE MALAISE OF THE MODERN MOTHER

MAREICE KAISER (BERLIN), ANNE FRIEBEL (LEIPZIG)

The ideal of motherhood is unattainable and full of contradictions. The journalist, author and mother herself, Mareice Kaiser, reads from her book and talks to Anne Friebel about the malaise of modern mothers.

Discourse

WERKSTATT: MORGENROT | MORNING RED

ALIDA BOHNEN (LEIPZIG)

In a combination of painting and theater, the evening explores the possibility of hope in times of perceived hopelessness.

Performance
Theatre

WERKSTATT: FACHTAG NACHWUCHSARBEIT | SYMPOSIUM FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

WERKSTATTMACHER E.V. (LEIPZIG)

Of growing up, precarity and potential. The symposium creates a space for practical and theoretical knowledge transfer, (inter)regional networking and exchange between young artists and initiatives to promote young talent.

Discourse
Performance
Dance
Theatre
Contemporary Circus
Workshop

DISCUSSION: CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PROTEST MOVEMENTS IN IRAN - ARTS IN RESISTANCE

Daniela Rodriguez Romero, Donya Ahmadifar, Shafagh Aghaei, Yasemin Said

In the discussion with Daniela Rodriguez Romero, Donya Ahmadifar, Shafagh Aghaei and Yasemin Said, the focus is on the gap between the diverse cultural heritage of Iran, the Persian Empire and the ongoing suppression of artistic freedom and the resulting protest movements.

Discourse

GOLE SANGAM

DONYA AHMADIFAR (STUTTGART)

Donya Ahmadifar performs a moving solo: Western dance styles such as Popping and Waving meet Persian traditions, making the current struggle for freedom in Iran tangible through the senses.

Dance
Performance

SHOWING: TORNADO’S EYE

DAVID EISELE (ALTENBURG)

A musician dances with his cello, chairs spin on their own, and glasses become acrobatic marvels. Join us on a hypnotic journey between madness and meditation.

Contemporary Circus

FILMSCREENING: BLICKWECHSEL – PUBLICS AND POLICIES OF THE PERFORMING ARTS

A FILM BY JANINA MÖBIUS COMMISSIONED BY THE FONDS DARSTELLENDE KÜNSTE

This film tells the story of artistic strategies against far-right forces and how democracy is defended through artistic dialogue.

Discourse
Theatre
Performance
Dance

OPEN HOUSE

LOFFT – DAS THEATER

As part of the Spinnerei Round Tour, we will reopen our doors to you at the beginning of the new year.

Theatre

ECHOES OF THE EAST - ON QUEER RESILIENCE FROM BIAŁYSTOK TO LEIPZIG

DISCUSSION + BURLESQUE CLOSING

The performance PASKUDNIK and the film screening FILIPKA will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic ECHOES OF THE EAST - ON QUEER RESILIENCE FROM BIAŁYSTOK TO LEIPZIG, SOLIDARITY BEYOND NATIONAL BORDERS & NON BINARY JOY.

Discourse

FILM-SCREENING: FILIPKA

A documentary about activist and drag artist Filipka Rutkowska, the preparation for her first performance at a drag show, and her return to her hometown and conservative parents.

Discourse

PASKUDNIK

TUBI MALCHARZIK & TEAM (VIENNA/HANNOVER/LEIPZIG)

Between the dining table of an Upper Silesian family celebration and the surface of a dating app, the performance touches on issues of gender roles and sexuality, anti-Slavism, and German-Polish memory culture.

Performance

TECHNOLOGIES FOR MUTUAL EMPOWERMENT – ARTIST TALK: MARIA F. SCARONI

Bertolt Brecht Guest Professorship of the City of Leipzig at the CCT of Leipzig

Artist talk with guest professor Maria F. Scaroni on dance and movement as a practice of empowerment, moderated by Janine Schulze-Fellmann (Theater Studies, University of Leipzig).