Archive - LOFFT - DAS THEATER

IN ZUNGEN – HEX*EN HAUFEN KONSENS | IN TONGUES - WITCHES PILES CONSENSUS

ADELE*MIKE DITTRICH FRYDETZKI / DIE SOZIALE FIKTION (LEIPZIG)

Who are the witches of today? At which piles do we gather for rituals? How can we celebrate consensuality?

Performance

WE'RE USED TO BEING DARKER

GO PLASTIC COMPANY (DRESDEN/LEIPZIG)

In the setting of a bowling hall, the piece invites you to take a look into a closed society. 10 women*. 10 episodes. Off the track. Spare!

Performance
Dance

OFF EUROPA: STAND UP (FOR YOUR RIGHTS)

JANA SHOSTAK

Comedy, documentary theater and performance come together in this production.

Performance
Theatre

OFF EUROPA: "WIR KRIEGEN EUCH ALLE!" | OFF EUROPA: "WE'LL GET YOU ALL!"

DIANA WESSER, JULIANE MECKERT, HANS NARVA + ENSEMBLE

With five former GDR punk musicians, the theater hall becomes a punk concert, youth club, prefab building, fight club, streetcar and TV corner with multifunction table.

Theatre
Music
Performance

OFF EUROPA: SPIRITUAL BOYFRIENDS

NÚRIA GUIU SAGARRA

Where does the increasing addiction to being beautiful, to health and perfection come from? What links discipline and intoxication?

Performance
Dance

OFF EUROPA: DOUBLE BILL: HEIMATLOST

ÇAĞLAR YIĞITOĞULLARI

What does "home" mean when the ground beneath your feet starts to shake?

Performance

OFF EUROPA: DOUBLE BILL: BODY – SIGNATURE OF (Y)OUR LIFE #2

TERESA STELZER

Performer Teresa Stelzer searches for ways to uncover the memories of her body.

Dance

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

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.