Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
The Dance Jam Session takes place as part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.
We’ll start together with a guided warm-up that leads into an open community space for improvisation and dance encounters among all festival participants. This creates space for new inspiration and collaborative experimentation. Even if you haven’t participated in a CONNECT workshop before, you’re warmly welcome to join in the dancing.
DATE
Sat, 19.09.2026 | 6 -9 pm
PARTICIPATION FEE
On a donation basis
CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.
Foto: © S. Große-Wortmann
Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
This workshop is part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.
‘Dance to the Music!’ is the title of a 1968 song by the band Sly & the Family Stone. But what does it mean to dance to music? How can musicality be expressed? Is it by following the beat, rhythms, vocals or melodies? Or does it involve physically capturing the vibe of a piece of music to tell a story?
In this workshop, dance is taught as a sensory experience and a means of communication. Participants with varying levels of vision explore their own movement language and creativity by dancing through descriptions, tactile interactions and auditory impulses.
DATE
Sun, 20.09.2026 | 11 am – 2 pm
PARTICIPATION FEE
Our workshops follow a solidarity-based pricing model with a sliding scale. Within this framework, you decide for yourselves how much you’d like to and are able to pay. Those who can afford to pay more help support other participants.
Workshops (90 min): 15–30 euros
For two or more CONNECT workshops: starting at 10 euros per workshop
No one will be excluded from participating for financial reasons.
REGISTRATION
Organizational information about the process and registration procedure
Directions
About the artists
Khadidiatou BANGOURA is a dancer and choreographer. Together with Sabine Kuxdorf, she has been offering dance workshops for blind, visually impaired, and sighted dance enthusiasts since 2024. Sabine Kuxdorf is a blind social worker, access consultant, performer (Diphtong Kollektiv, KHARABA & GUESTS), and audio describer for dance and theater (Analogtheater Cologne, Studiobühne, Sticky Fragements).
CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.
Image: Lorena Spülbeck
Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LABS & WORKSHOPS, LAYOUT EN, UPCOMING EVENTS
This workshop is part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.
For all participants in the CONNECT workshops—prior participation in at least one workshop of the CONNECT Community Arts Project is required.
Let’s CONNECT! Our performance workshop invites all previous workshop participants of our CONNECT Community Arts Project to continue working together. In an open, collaborative process, we’ll develop a mini-performance—with a focus on creative exchange and the interplay of different perspectives. In the evening, the results will be presented to an audience as the collective finale of the festival.
DATE
Sun, 20.09.2026 | 3 – 6 pm
PARTICIPATION FEE
Our workshops follow a solidarity-based pricing model with a sliding scale. Within this framework, you decide for yourselves how much you’d like to and are able to pay. Those who can afford to pay more help support other participants.
Workshops (90 min): 15–30 euros
For two or more CONNECT workshops: starting at 10 euros per workshop
No one will be excluded from participating for financial reasons.
CONNECT Community Arts Project ist gefördert von der RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur und dem Kulturamt der Stadt Köln.
Community Arts Festival 2026 (EN), CONNECT – Community Arts Project, LAYOUT EN, ON STAGE, UPCOMING EVENTS
This performance is part of our CONNECT Community Arts Festival. Click here for an overview of the entire festival program.
DATE
Sun, 20.09.2026 | 6 pm
TICKETS
On a donation basis
ACCESSIBILITY
Barrier-free access.
Largely accessible toilet in the neighbouring building, No grab rails or height-adjustable mirror available. The entrance to the toilet is 68 cm wide.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
CONNECT Community Arts Festival is funded by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur and Office for Cultural Affairs Cologne.
Foto: © S. Große-Wortmann
LAYOUT EN, ON STAGE, UPCOMING EVENTS
The site-specific dance performance sur-facing II by cie.nomoreless explores—drawing on the multifaceted dynamics of Ebertplatz—the interplay and tension between visibility and invisibility, rapprochement and polarization, and art and everyday life. The ensemble of more than twenty performers—with and without disabilities, of varying ages and levels of dance experience—engages directly with the flow of movement, the social environment, and the architecture of Ebertplatz, developing a choreographic structure that moves between dance intervention and urban life.
sur-facing II deliberately opens itself up to the urban space: Passersby become part of the situations, and the boundaries between audience and art blur—the spectators become co-creators of the moment. New forms of coexistence are explored, routines are disrupted, and artistic processes are made visible.
ACCESSIBILITY
The performance will be audio-described for blind and visually impaired people.
The sensory tour at Ebertplatz begins half an hour before each performance—at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 pm. Meeting point: in front of the LABOR Gallery (Ebertplatz Passage 5) Please register at: britta.renes@nomoreless.eu or by phone for the performance on September 25, 2026: +49 176 70523109, and for the performance on October 3, 2026: +49 157 32544314
Walk-ins are also welcome.
Upon prior registration, mobility assistance is available to pick up participants from the Ebertplatz bus or subway stop and escort them back.
If you have any further questions about accessibility, please feel free to contact us.
DATES
Fri, 25.09.2026 | 12 am & 3 pm
Sat, 03.10.2026 | 12 am & 3 pm
MORE INFO https://nomoreless.eu/
CREDITS
Choreography Gitta Roser, Paulina Jürges
In collaboration with the performers
Lara Engisch, Aaron Fischer, Maria Fremmer, Rabea Jürging, Paula Kinzinger, Brigit Kofmel, Natalia Kozakiewicz, Corinne May, Florian Menzel, Hartmut Misgeld, Nele Müller, Natascha, Clara Neff, Christina Pantousi, Elli Pieper, Tuula Simon, Iris Schweitzer, Katja Struif, Clara Osório Vilarinho, Annika Vogt, Lea Weigel, and NN
Outside Eye Denise Albert
Sound Design Tuula Simon
Rehearsal Support/Production Assistant Elli Pieper
Project Director Britta Renes
Production Manager Raphael Spiegel
PR/Public Relations neurohr&andrä
Artistic Director Gitta Roser
Sound Engineer Benedikt Fuchs
Press Photos Ralf Jesse
Graphic Design Alex Ketzer
An event as part of “20 Years of Barnes Crossing – CELEBRATION!”
Supported by / in collaboration with
Heidehof Foundation
Sparkasse KölnBonn
RheinEnergie Foundation
Funding from the Downtown District Council
In cooperation with
ehrenfeldstudios
Barnes Crossing
Unser Ebertplatz
A production by
cie.nomoreless
Aus dem Raster e.V.
Photo: © Ralf Jesse
