Archive - LOFFT

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

EMBRACE EMBRACE – LOFFT IN CONCERT: THORD1S

Vocals that go to your heart, saxophone cuddle vibes and bass for the body - neither man nor woman, simply: THORD1S!

Music

MÜLL | WASTE

STUDIO URBANISTAN (LEIPZIG)

WASTE - now also on your doorstep! In a performative audio tour, the audience goes on the trail of our daily waste with headphones.

Performance

LEIPZIG DENKT: ALARM UND UTOPIE | LEIPZIG THINKS: ALARM AND UTOPIA

INTERDISCIPLINARY THINK-TALK-ART-FESTIVAL

In a time of social discord and bubble-ization, the festival creates and tests spaces for thinking and speaking together in different settings.

Discourse
Performance
Workshop

ELFENBEIN | IVORY

BOUIZEDKANE/JERAT/KONATÉ/REIMANN/WOLFF (LEIPZIG)

A PERFORMATIVE APPROACH TO A FLESHLESS HERITAGE

Theatre
Performance

COMMANDER

FARM IN THE CAVE (PRAGUE)

Using audiovisual projections and physical theater, the group Farm in the Cave addresses the online radicalization of youth and the immature behavior of our adult society. Follow them into the depths of the Darknet.