Dance Dates

DANCE DATES is a "dating platform" for contemporary dance pieces. A Freiburg production and a national production come together, accompanied by a changing supporting programme such as public workshops and discussion formats for all interested parties.

The pieces are shown one after the other. This allows the audience to enjoy a mini-festival over two evenings. One ticket to cover all performances or tickets for individual performances are available. This means that exciting productions by choreographers from other cities and countries can be shown regularly in Freiburg's E-WERK. This creates a national network which crosses federal borders.

DANCE DATES IS AN EVENT ORGANISED BY TANZNETZ FREIBURG AND E-WERK FREIBURG.

Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and the City of Freiburg.

Past

DANCE DATES #6 November 2024

Hanschitz & Beierer () /

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Hanschitz & Beierer

- Krrrch - who's dragging a circular piece of metal onto the stage? Or is the piece of metal rather pushing this heap of cell tissue?

With the Cyr Wheel, three performers embark on a detailed investigation into human-object relationships, drawing a sensual utopia - beyond subject-object dichotomies, reification and anthropocentric hierarchies of meaning.

Duration : 60 minutes

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Projekt-/Künstlerische Leitung, Konzeption, Dramaturgie, Text & Musik: Joël Beierer

Projekt-/Künstlerische Leitung, Choreografie, Performance & Kostüm: Sandra Hanschitz

Choreografie & Produktion: Heidrun Neumayer

Performance, Co-Creation & Produktionsberatung: Linda Pilar Brodhag

Performance & Co-Creation: Lorena Madurga

Dramaturgie & Mentoring: Arne Mannott

Lichtdesign & Technik: Steffen Melch

Erzählstimme: Anja Schweitzer

A production by Joël Beierer, Sandra Hanschitz and Heidrun Neumayer in co-production with ON THE EDGE Festival Vienna & E-WERK Freiburg.
Funded by BMKÖS, City and State of Salzburg. Made possible by residencies at Tollhaus Karlsruhe (ZirkusON), Trap Vienna (On the Edge Festival), CTC Salzburg (Winterfest Salzburg) and Freudenhaus Lustenau.
Accompanied by the creative alliance Zirkus ON. Zirkus ON is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media via the “Promoting Connections” program of the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts).
The research was supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media #Take Heart, the Freiburg Cultural Office and the Freiburg Regional Council.

Restraint

In Restraint, dancer Julek Kreutzer fully engages with a single, specific quality of movement: a continuous burst of energy in the smallest of spaces that constantly puts the force in its place. Driven by the rhythm of the drums, she works persistently to maintain this state, which nevertheless changes imperceptibly. In this extremely physical choreography, dance and music make the room and the audience vibrate.

Duration : 30 minutes

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Choreography: Lina Gómez

Dance and co-choreography: Julek Kreutzer

Live music and artistic collaboration: Michelangelo Contini

Lighting design: Bruno Pocheron

Costume: Sandra Ernst

Dramaturgical advice: Thomas Schaupp

A Production by Lina Gómez. Co-produced by ada Studio & Bühne für zeitgenössischen Tanz Berlin and Sophiensaele Berlin.

DANCE DATES #5 Mai 2024

PLAN MEE (Nürnberg) / Kompanie ONZE CHAMBRES (Freiburg) /

UN AMOR oder DIE ERFINDUNG MEINER MUTTER

PLAN MEE

It all starts on a Friday. The mother goes to flamenco dancing. She takes her daughter with her. The daughter watches her mother, is amazed, full of admiration, sees a strong, independent woman.

In her auto-fictional solo performance, Eva Borrmann sets out to search for things and events that have shaped her life story. The result is a story that oscillates between longing to return to the past and analytical observations of catastrophic family events. Through dance, she relates to nostalgic, kitschy and touching memories that are also inscribed in her body. In her choreography, she shows how the outgrown body cannot escape its own past, but tries to emancipate itself and confront the absurd.

Borrmann's production and Urs Humpenöder's text focus on looking back: a cassette tape that has been listened to over and over again, the half-empty boxes of Marlboro Red, the hastily hidden McDonald's bag - in a nostalgic look back, everything can be magically charged, only to lose all meaning when you first reflect on the past: everything was completely different.

Duration : 60 minutes

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Concept/Choreography/Performance: Eva Borrmann

Text/Dramatisation: Urs Humpenöder

Voice: Lucia Schulz

Stage Design/Costume: Daina Kasperowitsch

Music: Wolfgang Eckert

Dramatisation: André Studt

Outside Eye: Hannes Köpke, Meike Hess

Production management: Julia Opitz

Creative Producer: Dirk Förster

Assistant: Lina Hartmann

Photos: Annika Hammer

This production is in cooperation with the Tafelhalle Nürnberg, as part of the city of Nuremberg's Impulsförderung (Stimulus funding).

INVENTAIRE

Kompanie ONZE CHAMBRES

A choreographer friend once said: "When I was young, I knew a dancer who looked like you, just like two peas in a pod. You should organise a meeting." Then the choreographer disappeared into the dark night, like the messengers of fate in storybooks. So we organised this meeting between Kai Brügge and Frédéric Werlé.

They certainly resemble each other despite the generation that separates them. But it is precisely because of this physical similarity that their differences are striking. The two men meet on stage in the ruins of a shared house. They could be father and son. It could also be the imaginary or malicious doppelgänger known from Germanic legends.

Kai Brügge and Frédéric Werlé are at two opposite points in their artistic careers: one has suppleness and strength, the other has experience of working with the greatest choreographers and knows how to look best when in the spotlight.

The piece plays with the similarities and contrasts between these two bodies, these two energies and these two ways of approaching dance and movement. The two partners act alternately as echo, mirror and repulsion.

How can I exist in the face of the other, or, to use Martin Buber's phrase, how do I appear in the face of the other?

Between dream, fantasy and memory, INVENTAIRE explores the effects of an encounter; the admiration, competition and jealousy between two male bodies. Like a repertoire of strategies to continue to exist as an individual despite the intrusive presence of a doppelgänger.

Duration : 80 minutes

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Concept and direction: Claire Pastier and Daniel Rakovsky

Actors: Kai Brügge, Fréderic Werlé

Set design: Lucie Euzet

Lighting design: Steffen Melch

Sound design: Joël Beierer

Photographic direction, camera: Valentina Belli

Drama support: Jean-Claude Berutti

Choreographic assistance: Djamila Polo

Production assistance: Arlette Dellers

Press: Yasmin Ulrich

In co-production with the Art'Rhena cultural centre (FR) and the E-Werk Freiburg.

Dance Dates #4 Juni 2023

DAGADA dance company (Freiburg) / go plastic company (Dresden) /

© "pussy lounge" foto by MINZ & KUNST PHOTOGRAPHY
© "mind the rage" foto by Stephan Floss

pussy lounge

DAGADA dance company

With pussy lounge, six artists, a musician, a slam poet and four dancers from different backgrounds, different generations and challenges, explore the constantly changing external and internal demands of being a woman. Their aim is not to create another manifesto, but to approach it biographically, individually and in a haphazard way. Who are we when no one is looking? What ideas do we share? What are we afraid of? Where do we hit a snag?

Duration : 55 minutes

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Artistic direction: Karolin Stächele/DAGADA dance company, Choreography: Karolin Stächele in collaboration with the performers' concept: Karolin Stächele, Sabine Noll

Performance: Abiba Sokoto, Gregor Krammer, Karolin Stächele, Sabine Noll, Zweatlana

Dance and text dramatisation : Sabine Noll

Music: Zweatlana

Spoken word Production: Jule Weber

Stage: Sönke Ober

Light: Tim Weseloh

Cooperation partners & sponsors: With the kind support of E-WERK Freiburg, Tanznetz Freiburg and the Action Theatre PAN.OPTIKUM.

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Dance aid programme. Sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Freiburg and by the Baden-Württemberg State Association of Independent Dance and Theatre Artists with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

mind the rage (Dresden)

go plastic company

The go plastic company attempts to identify the positive power of anger, to translate it into usability and to provide space for different approaches. From the outside to the inside, between negative representation and positive selling, between being carried away and painful self-awareness, between exuberant energy and unrestrained silence; go plastic invites you to engage and participate, and takes the audience on a journey through the realms of anger.

Duration : 45 minutes

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With

Caroline Beach, Nicki Fehr, Cindy Hammer, Michaela Jarosch, Suzette Sagisi, Esther Schachenmayr, Benjamin Schindler, Susan Schubert

Texts / Authors: Caroline Beach, Cindy Hammer, Suzette Sagisi, Esther Schachenmayr, Benjamin Schindler, Susan Schubert

Music / Sounds / Composition: Nicolaus Fehr, go plastic company

Material / Costume / Stage: Alexandra Börner, go plastic company

Toi Toys: Alexandra Börner

Video / Artistic Documentation: Benjamin Schindler, go plastic company

Technical Management / Lighting Design: Benjamin Henrichs, go plastic company

Production Management: Michaela Jarosch, go plastic company

Public Relations: Thomas Natzschka

Experts: Arias Joker, Gwen Kyrg, Rosalie Wanka, Patricia Carolin Mai, Ophelia Young, Joseph Hernandez, Johanna Lauckner, Steph Quinci, Saskia Horton

Interviews: Inês Carijo, Nicki Fehr, Suzette Sagisi, Esther Schachenmayr, Gwen Kyrg, Stephanie Hauser, Michael Roth, Arias Joker, Patricia Carolin May, Katja Grohmann, Ophelia Young, Joseph Hernandez, Johanna Lauckner

A production of the go plastic company in coproduction with the TANZ_TAUSCH_NETZWERK, LOFFT – DAS THEATER, HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts and WUK – Theaterquartier Halle (Saale).

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Dance aid programme. Sponsored by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament. With the kind support of TANZ_TAUSCH_RESIDENZ, TanzNetzDresden and TENZA, E-Werk Freiburg and Tanznetz Freiburg.

Dance Dates #3 März 2023

Zina Vaessen (Freiburg) / Smadar Goshen (Stuttgart) /

© „Ist Trieb, ist Geist, ist Kampf und Glück, ist Liebe – Sebastian und ich!“ Foto by Roman Pawlowski
© "peninsula flora" foto by Jennifer Rohrbacher

„Ist Trieb, ist Geist, ist Kampf und Glück, ist Liebe – Sebastian und ich!“

Zina Vaessen

For years, Zina Vaessen has listened almost every day to his seven young toccatas for harpsichord and organ, in the time between brushing teeth and falling asleep. Toccare is the beating, touching and feeling of an instrument, improvised and playful, unmediated and varied. In a deliberately "cultureless" examination of the toccatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, the choreographer and dancer negotiate her own inner drive for movement, play and pleasure in a completely new way in her dance solo.

Duration : 40 minutes

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Choreography/ Dance: Zina Vaessen

Co-choreography/ drama: Sabine Noll

Stage design: Cristina Ohlmer

Cooperation partners: Tanznetz Freiburg, E-WERK Freiburg, bewegungs-art Freiburg e.V.

peninsula flora

Smadar Goshen

The dance piece poetically examines the embodiment of defence and survival mechanisms in humans, plants and animals under constantly changing living conditions. The piece is inspired by cacti growing in nature. The most remarkable defence mechanism of a cactus is its ability to grow spines instead of leaves. It can adapt to extreme and difficult environmental conditions, thus making it similar to humans. Part of the audience is invited to participate in a sound installation that influences what happens on stage. This creates a fictional ecosystem - an island - within a clear, bright landscape in which relationships are redefined.

Duration : 45 minutes

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Choreography, concept and artistic direction: Smadar Goshen

Dance: Selina Koch, Smadar Goshen

Stage design: Lior Skoury

Music: Matan Spenser

Textile design: Tamar Branitzky

Costume design: Laura Yoro

Supported by the Israeli Fund for Freelance Artists, the City of Stuttgart, the Stuttgart Independent Dance and Theatre Scene and the Stuttgart Dance and Performance Production Centre.

Sebastian und Ich! Workshop

Sebastian und ich! Workshop on the musical body with Zina Vaessen and Julia Klockow

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On Sunday March 12th at 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the E-WERK Kammertheater.

Peninsula Flora Workshop

In this workshop, interested parties can immerse themselves in the language of movement of the piece.

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On Saturday March 12th at 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. at the E-WERK Kammertheater.

DANCE DATES #2 JUNI 2022

TwoOneCompany (Freiburg) / Performance (Basel) /

© "red moon" Videostill by Jennifer Rohrbacher
© "How to do a downward facing dog?" Foto by Andreas Hagenbach

red moon

TwoOneCompany

"red moon" is an artistic exploration of the female cycle in resonance with the cyclical laws of life. The dance performance tells a story about women, their connection with intuition and nature. A Mystical-animalistic choreography about innocence, lust, struggle and devotion in the cycle of creativity and destruction, full of vulnerability and strength. Powerful and wild, but also tender and vulnerable – always in a state of flux.

Duration : 50 minutes

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“red moon” is the third production of the twOne Company by Ewelina Kotwa & Belinda Winkelmann.

Belinda Winkelmann

Ewelina Kotwa

In cooperation with E-Werk Freiburg.

How to do a downward facing dog?

Performance

Yoga is omnipresent in the world. “How to do a downward facing dog?” is a project that uses an asana (yoga position) to examine the phenomenon of yoga biographically, physically and theoretically and its position within a complex network of socio-political contexts. The Swiss choreographer and dancer Johanna Heusser, as a white Swiss woman, sets out to find her role in the network of yoga as a phenomenon in which socio-political contexts from neoliberal self-optimisation to cultural appropriation, converge. In a dance performance, her own body becomes the visual material for the negotiation. She repeatedly assumes the pose of the downward facing dog and places this process in ever new contexts.

Duration : 50 minutes

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Concept and Performance: Johanna Heusser

Production Management: Sarah Schoch

Dramaturgy: Fiona Schreier

Light, Video, Sound, Stage: Marc Vilanova

Coaching Performance: Stephan Stock

Coaching Yoga Performance: Abhilash Ningappa

Costume: Diana Ammann

Video: Gabriel Meisel

Photos Dog: Benjamin Stern

Ethnologist: Stephanie Lovasz

Support: Verein Landholzproductions

In cooperation with ROXY Birsfelden.

Dance Dates #1 Mai 2022

com.dance e.V. Katja Gluding (Freiburg) / I-Fen Lin (Luzern) /

© "Eden" Foto by Jennifer Rohrbacher
© "Findet Jetzt statt!" Foto by Roberto Conciatori

EDEN

com.dance e.V. Katja Gluding

If I could wish for something, I would want to be a little happy, if I were too happy, I would be homesick for being sad." F. Holländer/ M. Dietrich

What is the key to happiness? Could it be, that what is behind closed doors is not so special after all? Just the familiar life in a duet between good and less good moments, between harmony and irritation, stagnation and movement, between success and failure, (self)love and rejection, tension and relaxation, between joy and melancholy...

Six dancers and two musicians research happiness and the opposite of happiness in a society in which we seem to lack nothing, and they create a touching dance performance under the artistic direction of Katja Gluding.


Duration : 45 minutes

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Katja Gluding: Choreography and production management | Belinda Winkelmann: Production management | Nadine Gerspacher: Drama support | Tobias Hergt, Lisa Wethkamp, ​​Christina Bischof, Antonia Bischof, Rica Matthes, Raul Martinez: Dance | Leonie Flaksmann, Maria Beatriz Picas de Carvalho Magalhães: Music

In cooperation with the Caritas Association Freiburg City e.V., the Freiburg University of Music, the E-WERK Freiburg and Tanznetz Freiburg.

Supported by LaFT Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg Cultural Office, Sparkasse Freiburg

Findet Jetzt statt!

I-Fen Lin

Does it make you happy to be experiencing this moment? Then you are ready for the beauty of the moment. In I-Fen Lin's Südpol production, four actors look for the short, random moments of happiness that should not be missed. The production gives space to the beauties of life and provokes unpredictable situations in which the origin of these moments of happiness seems to lie. The beauty of the moment is happening NOW.

The internationally successful dancer and choreographer I-Fen Lin lives in Lucerne and in her work, she moves between concept, direction, choreography and dance. In her interdisciplinary pieces, she choreographs not only movement, but also situations in space. For 'Findet Jetzt statt' she worked with actors.

Duration : 60 minutes

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I-Fen Lin: Concept and project management | Elias Kurth, Kim Emanuel Stadelmann, Patrik Zosso, Beatrice Fleischlin: Artistic work and Performance | Kevin Schneeberger: Bühne & Licht | Felix Lisske: Ton | Laura Ritzenfeld: Production management | Roberto Conciatori: Foto

In coproduction with Südpol Luzern.

Supported by Selektive Förderung Kanton Luzern, Albert Koechlin Stiftung, Stadt Luzern FUKA Fonds, Stiftung Monika Widmer, RKK Luzern, Edith Maryon Stiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung, Susanne und Martin Knechtli-Kradolfer Stiftung, Migros Kulturprozent.