The PerformanceLabs provide our audiences with an eclectic taste of dance from exciting local and global dance companies and choreographers.
The diverse curation of the PerformanceLab program will arouse and delight both new and established followers of dance. Be it dance theatre, breakdancing, ballet, improvisation or contemporary dance, the PerformanceLab showcases and embodies the diversity of dance in all its beauty.
13.06.2021
The performance consists of the world premieres of two international dance projects created as part of two different ResearchLabs in 2021. The performances were presented in a livestream evening that included a dance film by Jasmine Ellis Projects and a live dance performance by Yotam Peled & The Free Radicals.
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20. - 22.08.2021
3. - 5.09.2021 & 10. - 12.09.2021
14.10.2021
22.10.2021
MAWU brings femininity to the stage through the figure of six free and empowered women and their search for identity in the collective, in movement and in their ritual.
4.10.2021
Wabi-Sabi
Wabi-Sabi, originating from Japanese, is an aesthetic concept, a worldview that focuses on the acceptance of transitoriness, finding beauty in the "imperfect, impermanent and incomplete" of our lives. Wabi-Sabi explores our life journey as individuals, most of whom are in constant turmoil and various states of grief, and proposes a deeper understanding of our existence. Acceptance of the essence of our nature and the beauty found in its apparent imperfections brings constant growth, renewal and joy through the process of moving forward with it, not away from it.
REVA
REVA, from Hindi: "to gather strength", "rain", asks the question: What if you woke up tomorrow and had nothing left of what we often take for granted in everyday life? Nowadays, we are often so conditioned by our interpretation of the past and our expectations of the future that we live in a constant survival mode, desperately trying to find meaning and purpose for our limited lives. If you suddenly found yourself naked with nothing to lose, you would probably instead join the universal dance of life and the unconditional love of the present moment. It's like getting caught in the rain: either you try in vain to run away from it and not get wet, or you stop and consciously choose to feel the rain and thus connect with the universe.
9. - 16.12.2021
06.03.2022
This double feature dance performance was inspired by the DANCE DATE concept, a dating platform for contemporary dance initiated by TanzNetz and E-WERK Freiburg. The first piece "Gestik" was performed by company Idem, the second piece "Stampede Disaster Control" by Moving Orchestra from Freiburg.
company Idem: GESTIK
In this work, company Idem explores how gestures affect us emotionally. Corona's restriction of close contact and the wearing of masks has made us more aware of the importance of gestures. In a matter of seconds, we interpret gestures and are moved or "touched."
Gestures generate emotions, refer to the nature of relationships between people, and offer an infinite spectrum of communication possibilities. While upward facing palms symbolize openness, downward facing palms can be interpreted as dominance on the one hand, or have a calming effect on the other.... With walls that divide, exaggerated facial expressions and with explosive movements Company Idem choreographically interprets the social Covid19 situation.
Choreography: Matthias Kass
Dancers: Matthias Kass & Rosalia Pace
Moving Orchestra Freiburg/ Michael Langenecker: Stampede Disaster Control
Originally, "stampedes" refer to the escape movement in a herd of animals, as well as the dynamics of crowds. Under the artistic direction of Michael Langeneckert, the dancers inspired by current events explore the effects of stampedes and are accompanied live by the musician Bernd Wegener. In the production, chaos is explored with the aim of finding a new order. What becomes visible when the obvious gives way to what lies hidden beneath the surface? Can these dynamics bring about positive developments?
Choreography: Michael Langeneckert
Dancers: Tina Halford, Raul Martinez, Robin Rohrmann, Rebecca Weingartner
Music: Bernd Wegener
Photo: Guido Stuch
22.04.2022
#ShowMeYourMoves! creates performance opportunities, connects and inspires dance creators in Southern Germany to bring their work together on stage. The performance platform aims to create an exchange between dance lovers and dance creators through shared performance experiences.
We would like to use #ShowMeYourMoves! to showcase dance of all styles and from diverse artistic backgrounds. Five 15-minute dance performances were shown, independently created by the participants.
Performances:
Tina Halford (GER) from Freiburg: "My blue is your green".
Raphaëlle Polidor (FRA) from Ulm: "Home?"
Jonas Frey (GER) from Mannheim: "Signature Snippets"
Natalie Bury (SUI) from Munich: "Fucking Beautiful".
Alina Belyagina (supported by the city of Munich) and Anima Henn (DEU): "Firebot".
Photo: Benjamin Krauss
25.05.2022
For three years, Edan Gorlicki and his team have been examining how our society deals with traumatic experiences. In IMPACT, the first part of the trilogy, five dancers go to the epicenter of the event. Without merely retelling an event, the piece explores how the body reacts when catastrophe happens out of nowhere: How do people comprehend the sudden change and how do they respond? What mechanisms lead to flight, defense or rigidity? How does the experience of time change when the body takes control? How free is the human being to respond?
Concept/Choreography and Stage: Edan Gorlicki
Co-developed and performed by: Alfonso Fernández Sánchez, Amy Josh, Eli Cohen, Lorenzo Ponteprimo, TingAn Ying
Costume and choreographic assistence: Evandro Pedroni
Light: Ingo Jooß
Music: Harrison McClary
Dramaturgy and Building-Actions Program: Eva-Maria Steinel
Production management: Janin Friese
Management: Sarah Thöle
Fundraising: Susanne Brauer
Social Media & PR: Jael Krämer
Touring Management: Ricarda Walter
Production: INTER-ACTIONS in co-production with Theater Rampe Stuttgart and Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg.
https://inter-actions.de/?lang=en
12. - 20.06
A new and transformed embrace of virtuality and reality through dance.
In 2021, choreographer Pablo Sansalvador collaborated with international artists to create a live performance with music composed especially for this project. The goal was the symbiosis of exciting technological possibilities and the freedom of modern dance art. For 2022, the team aims to redefine the boundaries of augmented reality and live dance, creating an enhanced and extraordinary experience for the audience: Tanz mit dem Tiger 2.0.
The audience will experience a new combination of dance art and new technologies (motion capture technology). Using a tablet, the audience will see both the two live dancers and the four digital choreographers - from Brazil, Hong Kong and the USA - in the form of their transformed avatars.
Artistic director / choreography: Pablo Sansalvador
Music and sound composition: Max Levy
3D Digital Animator: Guido Stuch, Sabin Timalsena
Software developer and programmer: Alpay Artun
Production management: Raphaëlle Polidor
Dramaturg: Sandra Schumacher
Live dancers: Claire De Caluwe (Amsterdam) Miguel Toros (Saabrücken)
Distant Digital Dance Makers: Claudia Mwabasili & Roges Doglas (Sao Paolo), Zelia ZZ Tan (Hong Kong), Kelsey Paschich (Michigan)
Supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg.
Produced by TanzLabor Ulm and ROXY Ulm with digital realization by Widerstand und Söhne GmbH and appearance by Forever. Design office.
17.06.2022
What would have happened if Adam and Eve had been different people?
EDEN is a multidisciplinary movement piece that combines dance, music, voice work and poetry with a strong physical and visual approach.
The work deals with the always relevant questions of freedom and humanity, but also with the fantasy of another beginning, not as a new beginning, but conceived as a hypothesis about other possibilities and choices.
According to the Swiss philosopher Emil Angehrn, the beginning can be experienced in three different ways:
As the opening of a free space.
As the release of possibilities.
As the installation of a ruling power.
EDEN is an intellectual experiment that discusses the heterogeneity of the raised questions and reflects the tension that is inherent in reference to the origin as a whole - which can be experienced and grasped by means of bodies in space and thus collectively shared and carried forward.
Concept and choreography: Julia Maria Koch
Dance and creation: Romane Petit, Camille Jackson, Yadira Rodríguez, Erick Odriozola, Fabio Calvisi
Music/ Composition: Konstantin Heuer, Thorolf Thuestad
Co-composition, performance, voice and text work: Alwynne Pritchard
Lighting design: Torsten Lippstock
Costume: Julia Maria Koch with design work and friendly support of Studio DRKRM and daijanala, Berlin
Tailor: Ibrahim Biawa
Special thanks to Bine Eberhardt.
EDEN was created as part of the TanzLabor ResearchLab and is a joint co-production with E-Werk and Tanz-Netz Freiburg. The performance had its premiere at the Ulm Moves! Dance Festival.
20.06.2022
The performance platform was presented for the second time at the Ulm Moves! Festival. Once again, a variety of different dance styles were featured, both by regional and international artists.
Performances:
PINK LADY
Idea, Concept, Choreography, Performance: Rosalie Wanka (Munich/GER)
Solo-Performance
Draining
Choreography: Nikolaos Doede (USA)
Dancers: Terra Kell and Gabriela Finardi from Staatstheater Augsburg
Credo und Crucifixus (excerpts from "Messa di Gloria")
Choreography: Reiner Feistel (GER)
Dance Company: Theater Ulm
Dancers: Seungah Park, Alba Pérez González
Music: Giacomo Puccini
Costume: Petra Mollerus, Frank Fellmann
Speech(less)
Choreography / Performance: Sade Mamedova (Mannheim/GER)
Solo Performance by Sade Mamedova
Very tiny little drop of wax.
Choreography: Mei Chen (CHN) and Yannis Brissot (FRA)
Dancers: Mei Chen and Yannis Brissot from Theater Pforzheim
KYRIE (excerpt from "Messa di Gloria")
Choreography: Reiner Feistel (GER)
Dance Company: Theater Ulm
Dancers: Carmen Vázquez Marfil, Magnum Phillipy, Alekseij Canepa, Gabriel Mathéo Bellucci, Alba Pérez González, Nora Paneva, Seungah Park Maya Mayzel, Edoardo Dalfoco Neviani
Solo: Alekseij Canepa
Music: Giacomo Puccini
Costume: Petra Mollérus
Photo: Ella Teubner
„Ode an die Dinge“ shapes the field of cultural education, learning, perceiving, experiencing and experiencing together with our kids outside the usual school environment.
With a lot of dedication dance is taught in a playful way and can be experienced in the following workshop. With their unique performance-workshop combination, the two dancers Laura Saumweber and Paula Niehoff open up new possibilities for children in the field of contemporary dance and take us on a dance journey through strange absurdities.
The stage is constantly redesigned with and through many objects, becoming a wonderland, living room or the purest chaos. So it never gets boring!
The educational experience in "Ode to Things" is thus up close, immediate and low-threshold.
Idea, choreography and dance: Laura Saumweber & Paula Niehoff
This event was exclusively aimed at school classes.
URBAN CREATION is a dance project with the goal to strengthen the urban arts, to contribute more diversity in the stage context and to promote and demand theater for the use of ALL in Baden-Württemberg.
The project is created as a co-production between the informal production organization CBO (Creative Beings Organizm) and the socio-cultural center ROXY Ulm.
Together with fourteen urban dance artists, the team, consisting of the producer and artistic director Daniela Rodriguez Romero, the choreographers Jean Didier "Sponkystyle" Mamona and Saraï Patisson, will develop a stage play on the theme of creativity culture.
Creative Leaders: Jean Didier Sponkystyle Mamona & Saraï Patisson
Creators: Donya Ahmadifar, David MR. Quick Kwiek, Annalisa Capriotti, Philipp Itz me Raiß, Maren Funky Mae Wittig, Rymon Rayboom Zacharei, Lydia Ladi Dadi Tesfai, Kevin Garro, Veronika Vikki Kalembach, Luisa Möller, Emilie Pesch, Jamie Chris Stachl, Yasin Demir, Levy Elasu
Music Producer: Ferdinand Feierabend
DJ & MC: Jamiere Purple Suggar Carr
Stage Design: Daniela Rodriguez Romero & Marcos Espíndola Rieger
Costume Design: Annalisa Capriotti & Bob Sizoo
Production office: CBO Creative Beings Organizm
Daniela Rodriguez Romero (Production management)
Laila Grillo (Production management)
Emilie Pesch (Public Relations)
Erdem Tikil (Communication design)
Coproducer: ROXY Ulm
Cooperation partner: Tanzlabor Ulm
Photographer: Joachim Manuel Riederer
Videographer: Erdem Tikil
Funding:
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Support Program Dance.
Supported by:
BIRDSEIN Studio+
Sportfabrik Mittelbiberach
Moorbadstuben Hotel Bad Buchau
LUNCA Kreativräume & LOFT Stuttgart
Ulm City Graffiti
29.09.2022
It is the external aspect that often deviates from reality - the gap between appearance and reality.
In our modern society, for many, appearance seems to take precedence over being - appearing better than you really are. The new digital age has amplified the phenomenon. This leads to the fact that we invest an incredible amount of time and energy to realize our idea of ourselves. This behavior happens unconsciously as the culture and environment focuses on the authenticity of the individual. The individual feels tempted to rely on role models and falls for the world of beautiful appearances as they are presented to them.
Artistic directors and choreographers: Clément Bugnon & Matthias Kass
Dancers: Rosalia Pace, Pauline Richard, Manolo Perazzi, Stefano Roveda, Mattia Saracino, Tommaso Quartani
Composer: Michio Woirgardt
Set & costume designer: Katharina Andes
Producer: company Idem
Co-producer: Théâtre Benno Besson - Yverdon-les-Bains
company Idem is artist in residence at Théâtre Benno Besson (2022/25).
Supporters and sponsors
Canton of Vaud, the cities of Yverdon-les-Bains and Sainte-Croix, Lotterie Romande, CEPY Foundation, Corymbo Foundation, Migros Kulturprozent, Ernst Göhner Foundation, LeZartiCirque and Phönix Theater Steckborn am Untersee.
15. - 19.10.2022
The 4th edition of ChoreoLab is titled PLAY! inspired by Albert Einstein's quote "Play is the highest form of research". The three internationally acclaimed and emerging choreographers Simone Elliott (USA), Ester Guntin (ESP) and Giovanni Insaudo (ITA) created an energetic and playful evening of dance and take up the challenge to create three new works with four international dancers - all under the motto PLAY! Through play we reveal what kind of people we really are. A stimulating performance that also motivated the audience to play.
Artistic direction: Pablo Sansalvador
Choreographers: Simone Elliott (USA), Ester Guntin (ESP) and Giovanni Insaudo (ITA)
Rehearsal direction: Mar Rodríguez Valverde
Production management: Steffi Bichweiler
Dancers: Gloria Garcia Garrido (ESP), Enrique Lopez Flores (ESP), Shih-Ping Lin (TWN), Giulia Pizzuto (ITA)
06.11.2022
In search of the best possible version of herself, a young woman trains herself to exist under the gaze of others. In front of a large mirror, she shapes her reflection according to her demands. Tired of what the young woman imposes on her, the reflection comes to life and decides to open her eyes to show her who she really is, breaking the barrier that separates them. The young woman ends up in a bizarre universe where everything seems even more exaggerated and absurd. The mirror image invites her to break away from her reality and to realize that behind the caricature of herself, which she believes to be a prisoner, there is also a form of authenticity.
Choreography & Interpretation: Mélodie Cecchini & Gaëtan Boschini
Musical composition: Thibault Lavigne
Lighting design: Matthieu Luro
Production design and costume: Marie-Caroline Sousa
Management: Marie Savignat
Production & Distribution: Elsa Malye Nora
Photo: Piko Paseos | Dance: Mélodie Cecchini & Gaëtan Boschini
18. / 20.11.2022
Behind the highest church tower in the world, Ulm Cathedral, a pedestrian discovers a narrow alley that she had never noticed before. She examines the houses and reads the meaningful name "Paradiesgasse" on the street sign. The dance theater production by Carmine Romano compiles the small sins of our time in a collage and gives the audience the opportunity for self-knowledge.
Choreography: Carmine Romano in collaboration with the dancers
Company: Laboratorio Danza
21.11.2022
The ROXY Ulm presents the award-winning productions of the 26th International Solo Dance Theater Festival Stuttgart 2022. Six winners from more than 200 applications from all over the world will now go on tour together. The solo artists will present contemporary dance in its purest form and offer an exciting insight into the latest developments in the international dance scene. A program that holds surprises and promises discoveries for the scene of tomorrow.
Audience Award Scholarship for Equilibrio Dinamico Ensemble 2022
Choreography and Dance: Adrian Popa (Romania) with "Hope4us
Finalist 2022
Choreography and Dance: Anette Toiviainen (Finland) with "adulthood".
1st prize choreography 2022
Choreography and dance: Zsófia Safranka-Peti (Hungary) with "Layers
2nd prize Choreography 2022, Residency Award of the Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company
Choreography: Isaiah Wilson (Luxembourg) with "FEVRIER", danced by Raphaël Dal-Conte.
3rd prize Choreography 2022
Choreography and Dance: Noah Oost (Netherlands) with "last archive".
1st Prize Dance and Copenhagen International Dance Prize of the Copenhagen
International Dance Festival 2022
Dance Flavio Quisisana (Italy) with "QUARANTELLA".
Choreography by Valeria Marangelli (Italy)
Photo: Günter Seeger | Dance: Anette Toiviainen
26.11.2022
SEX WITH MADONNA takes on the socially tabooed bipolar disorder in its physicality. Bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive illness, is one of the most common mental illnesses in Germany and often puts those affected in precarious situations. How does a manic body move and a depressed one? The tension between mania and depression in a person, which sheerly tears body and mind apart, is the core of this choreographic confrontation. With three dancers and 100 kg of colorful confetti, Chris Jäger conjures up a lucid dream.
Concept and choreography: Chris Jäger
Dancers: Justyna Kalbarczyk, Cordelia Eleonore Lange, Louis Thato Partridge
Dramaturgy: Julia Heinrichs
Lighting design: Raquel Rosildete
Production Management: MIFRUSH Production Micaela Trigo & Urszula Heuwinkel
17.12.2022
#ShowMeYourMoves! is a performance platform for dancers from a variety of backgrounds, creating performance opportunities for emerging talent. It connects and inspires professional dancers:in southern Germany to bring their work together and share the spotlight on stage.
The platform demonstrates dance's potential to embody a wide range of cultural tastes, styles and backgrounds. Once again, the performance offers audiences an exciting and diverse presentation of five to six short dance pieces in one evening. #ShowMeYourMoves! is an exchange between dance lovers and dance creators through shared performance experiences
Performances:
Nilipara is a Butterfly
Choreography: Alba Perez Gonzalez (Theater Ulm)
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A safe place?
Choreography: Alessio Burani & Lucas Roque Machado (Regensburg)
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness
Choreography: Dario Wilmington & Selene Martello
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Clouds for Tomorrow
Choreography: Maria Chiara de'Nobili & Alexander Miller (Dresden)
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Us
Choreography: Eric Trottier (Mannheim)
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99% (Premiere!)
Choreography: Jung Jung-Woon (Seoul, South Korea)
Photo: David Kalwar | Dance: Alessio Burani & Lucas Roque Machado
11.02.2023
Inspired by the widows' balconies (balcones de viudas) in the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires/Argentina, the Freiburg dancer and choreographer Nadine Gerspacher places her new piece "Das innere Beben" in a protected space, a house. The guardian of this widow's house is "Madame". She watches over the haven of freedom and the radical openness lived in it. With her address, she turns the audience into confidants and exhorts sympathy and respect.
By means of a ritual, Madame brings the group of widows - five frail, stooped figures - to life. Beginning with a slight tremor, the excitement of the women increases to a violent tremor. Pent-up emotions break free and take possession of the bodies. Hysterically, the five dancers writhe and shake with distorted faces, tears flow, screams pervade the room. Like a tsunami, the powerful quake sweeps away the "natural order". Joy and relief spread through the exhausted group. The valley of tears seems to be overcome, a new life begins.
In her usual manner, Cia. Nadine Gerspacher stages a dance theater characterized by powerful dance and acrobatic elements, which celebrates the liberation of feelings with tragic-comic elements and sets a counterpoint to social repression.
Artistic direction | choreography: Nadine Gerspacher
Choreographic assistance: Ombline Huvelle
Dance: Raphaëlle Sablic, Andréa Vibert, Camille Lejeune, Hedvig Edvall Bons, Armande Sanseverino, Hanna May Porlon, Genaro Cibils Alberti
Dramaturgue: Anna Castells
Set | Costume: Cia. Nadine Gerspacher, Akimbo.Future
Music: Josep Maria Baldomá
Light: Oli Lorenz
Photo | Video: Nicolas Clausen & David Kalwar
Production Management: Anna Sagrera | Big Story Productions
Management | Production: Nicolas Ricchini | Big Story Productions
Press: Christine Eyssel
Booking Agent: André Barros
Support: Jasminka Wrobel
"Das Innere Beben" is produced in cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg, Free Zone Barcelona and Big Story Productions. With the kind support of the Cultural Office of the City of Freiburg, the Fonds Darstellende Künste funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the NEUSTART KULTUR PROGRAMM funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and the Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
14./15./29.04.2023
Three dance-loving institutions from Freiburg, Ulm and Mannheim dare a joint experiment: With a team of three choreographers, four dancers, a rehearsal director, as well as technical and organizational support from all three cities, a joint evening is created. Their different artistic working methods promise a lot of variety and yet one thing is the same for all of them: the theme of sustainability is a central component of the project.
The choreographers Julie Pécard (Mannheim), Pablo Sansalvador (Ulm) and Magdalena Weniger (Freiburg) will work with the four dancers for two weeks each in Freiburg, Mannheim and Ulm as well as in two joint production weeks at the end in ROXY Ulm. All works of TANZtrialog are developed in close teamwork with the dancers and the rehearsal director.
TANZtrialog is a project in cooperation with ROXY Ulm/TanzLabor, EinTanzHaus Mannheim and E-WERK Freiburg/Tanznetz Freiburg, which serves the supra-regional networking of houses and freelance choreographers and dancers. The choreographic experiment has its original inspiration in the ChoreoLab Ulm, which since 2019 has opened up a space for dance artists to develop innovative artistic content.
Choreographers: Julie Pécard, Pablo Sansalvador, Magdalena Weniger
Dance & co-creation: Unita Gay Galiluyo, Martina Martín, Cecilia Ponteprimo, Alfonso Fernández Sánchez
Rehearsal direction & co-creation: Jerneja Fekonja
Light: Natalie Stark
Production management: Kathrin Maier, Sina Römer sowie die Teams von ROXY TanzLabor Ulm, EinTanzHaus Mannheim, E-WERK Freiburg in Kooperation mit Tanznetz Freiburg.
19.04.2023
Today, people live an average of 72 years - a time span in which many things fit: Growing up, dreams, love, suffering and growing old. Individual biographies in a collective history that inevitably shapes individual lives. Trees grow older than humans, up to several thousand years. Their life is stored in annual rings, countable only after their death, for which humans are often responsible. Where are our annual rings?
long life reflects duration, events and traces of a long human life with all its experience and maturity, disillusionment and bitterness, weariness and mildness, but also with the persistent longing for a better world. The 74-year-old actress, dancer and founder of the Toihaus Theater Salzburg Myrtó Dimitriádou takes the stage once again in this memorial journey through a long life. At her side is Cat Jimenez as a carefree and life-hungry young woman. Her strength and grace make her a beacon of hope and an extended arm into the future for a long life that is coming to an end. long life interweaves the lifelines of the two women against the backdrop of an imagined, world-spanning network of trees, perhaps the most social beings on this planet.
Conceived before the outbreak of the corona virus, the project is clearly marked by the conditions of the lockdown that took the team by surprise before rehearsals began. Even before the two protagonists met in person for the first time, they got to know each other online and rehearsed with director and choreographer Editta Braun via zoom on the screen. The pandemic had a noticeable influence on the aesthetics and rehearsal process - as a restriction, challenge and opportunity at the same time.
Myrtó Dimitriádou and Cat Jimenez. One is 74, the other 34, both a youthful age for trees. They live up to 10,000 years. I'm 63, still young, too. So what? The finitude of my life dawns on me. My finitude, your finitude, your finitude. The trees will outlive us humans. (Editta Braun)
Dance, Acting: Myrtó Dimitriádou & Cat Jimenez
Choreography, stage, visuals: Editta Braun
Composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff
Enjoy The Silence: Martin Gore / Depeche Mode covered by Thierry Zaboitzeff with love
Venus: Robbie Van Leeuwen / Shocking Blue, vocals Sandrine Rohrmoser
Light design, technical direction: Thomas Hinterberger
Dramaturgue: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau
Texts: e b c & Josef Wittmann
Photography: Bettina Frenzel
Tailoring: Lili Brit Pfeiffer, Cvetanka MojsovskiTourtechnik: Stefan Ebner
Distribution: Antje Papke
Inspired by Peter Wohlleben: The Secret Life of Trees, Munich 2019 and Richard Powers: The Roots of Life, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2018 respectively.
Sponsored by BMKÖS, Province of Salzburg, City of Salzburg.
Thanks to SZENE Salzburg, ARGEkultur, tanz_house
11. - 14.05.2023
Two and a half years of a pandemic and a war in Europe have changed our world. The cultural experience has also changed fundamentally. Whereas just a few years ago it was normal to seek out and enjoy the company of other cultural consumers throughout the year in theaters and discussion events, at dances, concerts or visits to exhibitions, this experience has now shifted in many cases behind screens, to the sofa at home.
If we look back a good 100 years to the early years of Dadaism, we find some parallels. At that time, too, a cruel war was raging, and then the world was also exposed to a deadly and widespread pandemic due to the Spanish flu.
The Dadaists were now looking for a new art to counter the madness of the world and - so their claim - to free the world from it. Nonsense, irony, wit, a wild mixture of styles and forms, semantically meaningless poems, stuttering, onomatopoeia, or even a simultaneous recitation of verses in different languages or tempos - with such actions the artists drew attention to themselves. The starting point was Zurich, but offshoots of the group spread throughout Europe and even reached America.
The Strado Compagnia Danza would like to dedicate itself to the idea of Dadaism in its new performance. Funny, communicative, unexpected and perhaps here and there crazy topics will be touched upon in the course of the performance, but without losing sight of the currently relevant ones.
Dancers: Júlia Chacón I Espí, Letícia Conduto, Valerie Lauren Damen, Katharina Krummenacher
Actor: Mirjam Morlok
Choreography: Domenico Strazzeri und das Ensemble
Costumes: Christina Schlumberger
Music: Joao Braun & Domenico Strazzeri
Texts: Mirjam Morlok
Assistance / training: Caterina Salvadori
Training: Ines Meißner & Daniela Molina
Light: Klaus Welz
Stage design: Frank Heinrich & Domenico Strazzeri
Photography / graphics: Nik Schölzel
03.06.2023
#ShowMeYourMoves! is a performance platform for dancers from a variety of backgrounds, creating performance opportunities for emerging talent. It connects and inspires professional dancers:in southern Germany to bring their work together and share the spotlight on stage.
The platform demonstrates dance's potential to embody a wide range of cultural tastes, styles and backgrounds. Once again, the performance offers audiences an exciting and diverse presentation of five to six short dance pieces in one evening. #ShowMeYourMoves! is an exchange between dance lovers and dance creators through shared performance experiences.
Video: David Kalwar | Performance: AMAE by Eliana Stragapede & Borna Babić
"After the Party..." and "AMAE" have been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken as the official views of the European Union.
22.09.2023
"The Pink Panther" is a one-man show by and with Javier Rodríguez Cobos. Inspired by the Pink Panther film series, Cobos stages an evening of dance with physical comedy, video, acting, magic and much more. With a great sense of humor and remarkable sensitivity, the outstanding performer addresses the working conditions of stage artists and embodies the inner struggle of a creative process. Through the means of comedy and dance, "The Pink Panther" sheds light on the dark side of the performing arts on the one hand: the overbearing obligations, sacrifice and renunciation in the private sphere.
Javier Rodríguez Cobo's production of "The Pink Panther" speaks in a very direct and honest way about the world of the entertainment industry, using the means of entertainment and making the audience enjoy and laugh with the characters created by the artist.
Cast and creator: Javier Rodríguez Cobos
Music: Henry Mancini and Donny Hathaway
Voice 1: Frank Fannar Pedersen
Voice 2: Dayne Florence
Video: Rubén Dario Bañol
Photos: David Lagerqvist and Alfheidur Erla Gudmundsdóttir
Supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
05./06.09.2023
When the young Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini died in police custody on September 16, 2022, it was the trigger for nationwide protests in Iran. Since then, Iranian women have no longer allowed themselves to be oppressed by the morality police and the authoritarian regime under Ebrahim Raisi. They are taking off their headscarves, fighting back and demonstrating on the streets.
Italian choreographer Carmine Romano, who wowed audiences in Ulm with "Birdy" (2021) and "Paradiesgasse" (2022) among others, ventures into dance-political territory with "The Will of Freedom". Inspired by the current protests in Iran and the film "Desert Dancers" (2014), Carmine Romano will choreograph the gripping story of three women who stand up to an oppressive regime, create their own lives and celebrate dance in the process.
Premiere: October 5, 2023, 20:00 H
With/dance: Miriam Cheema, Jhonathan Alexander Arias Gómez, Paola Paulis, Andrea Rivas, Mohamed Ben Salah
Choreography: Carmine Romano in collaboration with the dancers
Choreographic assistance: Nasrin Akhtar
Music arrangement: Arne Herrmann
Production management and public relations: Raphaëlle Polidor
Photo: Flavia Mash
Graphics: Stefanie Deutsch
13.10.2023
Dance and music are produced and disseminated to a high standard in Ulm, but contemporary circus remains largely unknown. The idea: to combine dance, music and circus.
Three artists from three different worlds come together to research and create together - a crossover. A mixture of talents in the sense of a melting pot.
For two weeks, the three artists from the region explored movements, spaces and sounds to develop a unique transdisciplinary "crossover" performance. Music meets dance and circus. Samuel Heinrich, Raphaëlle Polidor and Stefan Bauer are there for each other on stage, just as people should stand up for each other in everyday life. The 30-minute artistic experience is accessible to everyone. Both young and old audience members have the opportunity to experience an unpretentious, barrier-free live event consisting of three different art forms. The audience can also become artistically active during the performance.
Supported by the cultural department of the city of Ulm and the Gänseblümchen Foundation.
Crossover was performed as part of the "alles im fluss" flausen+fest der freien künste.
By and with: Samuel Heinrich, Raphaëlle Polidor and Stefan Bauer
"alles im fluss" is a cooperation project of flausen+gGmbH and ROXY gGmbH // Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media via the "Promoting Connections" program.
14.10.2023
#ShowMeYourMoves! is a performance platform for dancers from a wide range of disciplines that creates performance opportunities for up-and-coming talent. It connects and inspires professional dancers in Southern Germany to bring their work together and share the spotlight on stage.
The platform demonstrates the potential of dance to embody a broad spectrum of cultural tastes, styles and backgrounds. The performance will once again offer audiences an exciting and diverse presentation of five to six short dance pieces in one evening. #ShowMeYourMoves! is an exchange between dance lovers and dance creators through shared performance experiences.
#ShowMeYourMoves! was performed as part of the "alles im fluss" flausen+fest der freien künste.
Photo: David Kalwar // Рух Oпору / Resistance Movement" by Maciej Kuźmiński; Dance: Daria Koval (UA)
"alles im fluss" is a cooperation project of flausen+gGmbH and ROXY gGmbH // Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media via the "Promoting Connections" program.
14.10.2023
"Feminism is about something quite harmless: equal rights, self-empowerment for all. Why does that panic so many people?"
With 'pussy lounge', six artists - a musician, a slam poet and four dancers from different backgrounds, generations and challenges - explore the ever-changing demands of being a woman and being seen as a woman. Their aim is not to create another manifesto, but to approach the topic biographically, individually and unsorted.
Who are we when no one is looking? What ideas do we share? What do we fear? Where do we get off on the wrong foot?
The four dancers and the musician stand in the middle of the audience at the center of the performance. They want to be honest, to honestly experience who they are, what moves them. Individuals, women, sometimes feminine, androgynous, sometimes masculine, vulnerable and indestructible. To prove themselves to no one, to force themselves on no one, to dare to simply be. Between dance and language, they explore what it means to be considered a superwoman, strong and independent; what it means to be young and empowered, supposedly old and female or soft and male. Using their own stories, they want to expose the traps in their own actions and together develop an aesthetic that shows the strength, the feminine, that allows the loud in text and dance, that is merciless and tender at the same time.
"pussy lounge - oder was machen wir, wenn man uns machen lässt?" was performed as part of the "alles im fluss" flausen+fest der freien künste.
"alles im fluss" is a cooperation project of flausen+gGmbH and ROXY gGmbH // Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media via the "Promoting Connections" program.
23./24.11.2023
"IT TAKES FOUR TO TANGO" IS AN EVENING OF DANCE THAT BRINGS TOGETHER FOUR CHOREOGRAPHERS TO PRESENT FOUR SHORT WORKS.
Inspired by the culture and origins of tango, the evening consists of four dance chapters: Ceremony, Unbind, Cabaceo and Freedom. The four choreographers Simone Elliott (Regensburg), Sade Mamedova (Mannheim), Emese Nagy (Munich) and Pablo Sansalvador (Ulm) have joined forces to create a powerful and varied evening of dance.
Each choreographer has the freedom to interpret the evening's motto individually: It takes four to tango, not just two. The different ideas implemented by four dancers are a testament to the creativity and potential of contemporary dance. At the same time, empathy and curiosity are used to strengthen social cohesion during the creative process. The four dancers were invited from all over Germany and Europe at the joint invitation of the four choreographers. Artistic directors Simone Elliott and Pablo Sansalvador have created ChoreoLab-TanzSüd, a platform that brings together artists from two southern regions of Germany.
The original ChoreoLab platform was launched in Ulm in 2019 and offers young choreographers the opportunity to consolidate their craft and test their limits. In order to reach a larger pool of artists and deepen the collaboration, ChoreoLab-TanzSüd was founded. The project offers a unique and captivating night of dance in which four choreographers engage in a passionate tango for four.
Artdirection: Simone Elliott und Pablo Sansalvador
Choreographers: Simone Elliott, Sade Mamedova, Emese Nagy und Pablo Sansalvador
Dancers: Fabio Calvisi (IT), Vittoria Franchina (IT), Julian Lazzaro (ES), Katharina Ludwig (DE)
Rehearsalmanagement: Chiara Dal Borgo
Technic and light: DanielStiller
Culturalmanagement: Stephanie Bichweiler
Funding: Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. (LaFT), Bayerischer Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz (BLZT), Stadt Ulm, Stadt Regensburg.
Coproduction: ROXY Ulm gGmbH, TanzLabor Ulm, Moving Rhizomes e.V. , Elliot Dance Collective Kooperationspartner: Regensburger Tanztage, Alte Mälzerei, Tanztendenz München e.V., schwere reiter
27.11.2023
TANZLABOR PRESENTED THE AWARD-WINNING PRODUCTIONS OF THE 27TH INTERNATIONAL SOLO DANCE THEATER FESTIVAL STUTTGART 2023.
Six winners from more than 200 applications from all over the world are now going on tour together. The solo artists will present contemporary dance in its purest form and offer an exciting insight into the latest developments on the international dance scene. A program that holds surprises and promises discoveries for the scene of tomorrow.
Finalist 2023: Choreography and dance
Erica D'Amico (Italy) with "Second Daughter"
1st Prize Dance and Grand Théâtre de Genève / Cherkaoui Award
Liao Szu-Wei (Taiwan) with "DROWN"
2nd Prize Dance
Cecilia Bartolino (Italy) with "Saudade ", choreographed by Carlos Aller
3rd prize dance
Nunzia Picciallo (Italy) with "WAMI"
1st Prize Choreography, Residency Award Equilibrio Dinamico Ensemble, DAF INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Charles Brecard (Canada) with "Il pleut, Il plaint, Il rage"
2nd prize choreography
Louis Gillard (France) with "pif paf pouf"
17.01.2024
In Italian, "pupo" refers to both the child and the puppet: Sofia Nappi's new play is inspired by Pinocchio, the wooden puppet who would so much like to be a real boy. The focus is on the metamorphosis of the puppet: how does this slow transformation from one state to another take place? How does the naive child grow up and no longer allow himself to be manipulated by others? Carlo Collodi's world-famous children's book inspired the young Italian choreographer to create a modern coming-of-age story, through which fairy-tale characters such as the fox and tomcat, the talking cricket and the blue fairy also haunt in associations.
Sofia Nappi's dance language combines the wild, loose flow of Israeli dance, as we know it from Ohad Naharin's Gaga language and Hofesh Shechter, with elements of breakdance such as locking or popping when it comes to the jerky movements of the marionette. With minimal gestures and flashing leitmotifs, embedded in the often mirrored, unbridled desire to move of a young person, the choreographer tells the story of growing up: how the innocent, curious child awakens in the world, how it meets people and plays with them, testing its limits. How the youngster encounters his first temptations such as greed, how he is gullibly deceived, comes to terms with himself and finally learns about kindness, the power of forgiveness. After all the trials and lessons, a grown-up Pinocchio earns the right to become a real boy; through guiding figures he has experienced humanity and found himself through his own realization. The strongly rhythmic musical collage to which Pinocchio dances ranges from the folkloristic tone of a guitar to solemn, mystical sounds, and at the end the melancholy of memory resonates to a delicate Chopin nocturne. Nappi does not pantomime, but integrates minimalist images into her dance - the crazy twitching of a marionette or the pulling of strings and manipulation, the lightning-like growth of a long nose, seductive tango steps or animal movements. White face masks that mysteriously appear and disappear on the faces allude to the stereotypes and social criticism of the old Italian commedia dell'arte. Strong, atmospheric lighting sets the scene for the central hero and all the influences on him.
"Pupo" was created for adults, but will give people of all ages something to look at and think about. The choreographer sees the story of the transformed wooden puppet as a lifelong attempt to become the best version of oneself. We should never forget the child in ourselves, the impulsive, playful wooden puppet that we once were, the exuberant and irrepressible desire of children to dance. "The wood from which Pinocchio is cut is humanitas, humanity" - this is what the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce said about the iconic figure of the little wooden puppet who wants so much to be a boy.
Choreography: Sofia Nappi and the dancers of KOMOCO company: Arthur Bouilliol, Gregorio Dragoni, Glenda Gheller, India Guanzini, Paolo Piancastelli, Leonardo de Santis, Julie Vivès
Choreographic assistance: Adriano Popolo Rubbio
Music: Dead Combo, Jean du Voyage, Irfan, Frédéric Chopin and others
Sound design: Ed Mars & Sofia Nappi
Lighting design: Alessandro Caso
Costume design: Judith Adam
World premiere: 13.1.2024 Tanz Köln at the Bühnen Köln
Photo: Jeanette Bak
PUPO is a coproduction of Burghof Lörrach (D), Danse Danse Montréal (CA), ecotopia dance productions (D), Escher Theater (L), KOMOCO / Sofia Nappi (I), MART Foundation (US), ROXY Ulm (D), Sosta Palmizi (I), Tanz Köln (D), Theater Winterthur (CH), Tollhaus Karlsruhe (D).
09.02.2024
It is designed to captivate a predominantly young audience in one go, without a break. The evening's choreographic line-up leaves nothing to be desired. Six choreographers will present their works on the TanzLabor stage: Eric Gauthier, Nacho Duato, Shori Yamamoto, Sharon Eyal, Marco Goecke and Andonis Foniadakis.
Gauthier's successful MOVES FOR FUTURE Mobil concept made a guest appearance with four pieces. Three masterpieces from the RENAISSANCE program completed the evening: Sharon Eyal's SARA, Andonis Foniadakis' amazing Bolero danced on a trampoline and Marco Goecke's Midnight Raga. They also included Michel Fokine's ballet classic "The Dying Swan", as well as "Rassemblement" by Nacho Duato, "Feed your Dinobaby" by Shori Yamamoto and he created a new solo especially for the MOVES FOR FUTURE Mobil: Everybody's Somebody, a piece about the love of Lewis Capaldi's hit song Someone You Loved.
RENAISSANCE
SHARON EYAL - "SARA"
Sara is like a pearl in a treasure; cunning, gentle, delicate and sensitive, a jewel box with the scent of tough and old-fashioned. There is one of something old and the feeling of restraint, she knows that something new. The box cannot be used minimum as the maximum. fully opened. The magic does not allow distance, nor does it allow you to leave. A white, translucent pearl that grows close to her heart. She comes from there whose colors fade, but always and leaves the world, like a cloud, pearl remains. Sara is at the same time minima- which dissolves into the dust of love.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Sharon Eyal
CO-CREATOR: Gai Behar
COSTUME DESIGN: Odelia Arnold
LIGHT DESIGN: Alon Cohen
COMPOSITION: Ori Lichtik
CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT: Dominic Santia
MARCO GOECKE - "MIDNIGHT RAGA"
Eric Gauthier has long had his eye on this work for Gauthier Dance, which was awarded the Dutch dance Oscar Zwaan (Swan). Even measured against Goecke's choreographic standards, Midnight Raga stands out. A radical, glowing pas de deux that shows contemporary dance at its best.
CHOREOGRAPHY & COSTUME DESIGN: Marco Goecke
LIGHT DESIGN: Udo Haberland
MUSIC: Ravi Shankar, Etta James
ASSISTANCE & REHEarsal DIRECTOR: Ralitza Malehounova
World premiere March 30, 2017, NDT2 in The Hague
ANDONIS FONIADAKIS - "BOLERO"
Devilishly difficult to dance: his intoxicating choreographies combine complex movement sequences with breakneck speed. In an astonishingly different way, his famous Bolero also challenges the performers to the point of exhaustion. To the hypnotic sounds of Ravel, Foniadakis makes them dance on trampolines from the first to the last bar.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Andonis Foniadakis
COSTUME DESIGN: Anastasios Sofroniou
LIGHT DESIGN: Sakis Birbilis
MUSIC: Maurice Ravel
CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANCE: Paraskevi Oikonomou & Stefania Sotiropoulou
Foto: Jeanette Bak
PARTICIPANTS
Production: Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Choreography: Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar, Nacho Duato, Andonis Foniadakis, Eric Gauthier, Marco Goecke, Shori Yamamoto
Dance: Rebecca Amoroso, Rong Chang, Stefano Gallelli, Ayda Frances Güneri, Joan Jansana Escobedo, Mathilde Roberge
Ballet director: Tara Yipp
09.03.2024
#ShowMeYourMoves! is a performance platform for dancers from a wide range of disciplines that creates performance opportunities for up-and-coming talent. It connects and inspires professional dancers in Southern Germany to bring their work together and share the spotlight on stage. The platform demonstrates the potential of dance to embody a broad spectrum of cultural tastes, styles and backgrounds.
A Moment – Wakati
Choreographie: Samwel Japhet (TZ)
Dance: Samwel Japhet und Tadhi Alawi
Dust and Recuerdos.
Premier Germany/ World Premier Dezember 2023 in Madrid
Choreographie: Nadika Mohn (CH) and Diego de la Rosa (ES)
Dance: Nadika Mohn (CH) and Diego de la Rosa (ES)
CRISALIDE
Choreographie: Giovanni Insaudo (IT)
Dance: Sandra Salietti Aguilera
Sunrise
live Premier
Choreographie: Matteo Carvone (IT)
Dance: David Cahier (FR) und Matteo Carvone (IT)
I HAVE SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE
Premiere
Choreografie: Giovanni Insaudo (IT)
Tanz: Sandra Salietti Aguilera und Helias Dorvault
