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EINFACH SO | Caroline Simon
Just do it, just keep going, just relax, just have fun, just like that… How easy is easy? And how easy does easy seem? Using simple means (movement, body, space), Caroline Simon creates a real-time performance: reduced, pictorial, simply surprising.
NOTE TO SELF | Bryce Kasson
Note to Self
an improvisation by and with Bryce Kasson
a lecture on time, interrupted.
a soundtrack of recorded dreams, beatboxed song ideas, cracking ice, stray thoughts and wind, gathered (and gathering dust) over years.
swirling weather patterns of movement.
la fortaleza de una máscara.
all of this. and also (maybe) none of it…
CREDITS
An improvisation with composition, text, sound design and performance by Bryce Kasson.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bryce Kasson is an improvisor – dancer, clown, musician – and teacher who has lived and worked in the USA, Argentina and now Germany. For the past 30 years, the core practices of his dance research, performing and teaching have been Contact Improvisation and Tuning Scores. He’s often invited to research and perform Tuning Scores in small groups with Lisa Nelson and other international Tuners. He’s keenly interested in the moment when an action becomes meaningful, either to the mover or the watcher.
DATE
Fri, 21.11.25 | 8 pm
TICKETS
Sliding Scale: 10 – 20 Euro
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Foto: Viktor Brim
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In this choreographic lecture performance, Niko Jacobi brings memories, experiences, desires and needs into dialogue with cultural, conceptual and performative possibilities of (re)presenting personal identity. Which bodily sensations shape myself-image? Which echoes do they find in cultural archetypes? Which pronouns and stories accompany these images? How do I experience them in the context of social expectations? Niko invites the audience to explore these questions sensually and intellectually through the interplay of language and movement, and to reflect on their own relationship to identity and gender stereotypes.
DATES
Fri, 14.11.25 | 8 pm
Sat, 15.11.25 | 8 pm*
*On Saturday you can also look forward to the opening act of our THE AGEING BODY performance laboratory KINGS & QUEENS – Geschlechterrollen im Wandel.
TICKETS
Sliding Scale: 10 – 20 Euro
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Live audio description on request.
CREDITS
Concept: Charlie Fouchier // Direction: Charlie Fouchier, Niko Jacobi // Performance: Niko Jacobi // Lighting and set design: Charlie Fouchier // Video works: Mono Welk, Niko Jacobi, Jul Zereck, Charlie Fouchier
A production by Charlie Fouchier in co-production with KATAPULT – Performance Platform Leipzig, a project by Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, Schaubühne Lindenfels, and LOFFT – DAS THEATER. Supported by 4fT – Tanzplattform Leipzig e.V.
About the artists
Charlie Fouchier (he/him): Studied philosophy and choreography. Collaborated as a dancer with Tino Sehgal, Isabel Lewis, Laurent Chétouane, among others. Develops dance pieces as interdisciplinary models of performative events; shown in Leipzig, Berlin, Munich, among other places.
Niko Jacobi (-, he/him, dey/their, she/her): freelance dancer/performer, dramaturg; themes: intersectionality, gender, body norms. Since 2022 Polymora Inc.; linguistics Leipzig/Paris, MA cultural studies/semiotics; practice between conformity & individualization, queer- & trauma-sensitive.
Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax revenue based on the budget approved by the members of the Saxon State Parliament.
The LOOK 2025 guest performance series is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Foto: Rolf Arnold
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Under the title KINGS & QUEENS, we invite all people over 55 to explore traditional gender roles and their own positioning within them through dance art under the direction of Silke Z. and Caroline Simon. How do labels and stereotypes of gender roles become entrenched on a physical level? How can we express these in movements, challenge them and transform them into something new? What biographical imprints and self- and external attributions are there? We want to explore all these questions together with you through dance. The lab will culminate in a final performance.
DATES
Performance lab #1: 27.01. – 01.02.2025
Performance lab #2: 31.03. – 05.04.2025
Performance lab #3: 08.09. – 13.09.2025
Performance lab #4: 10.11. – 15.11.2025
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 3 pm
Saturday: Performance at 8 pm
REGISTRATION
Participation fee: 50€
No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
Registration and info: tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access. Participation with a rollator or wheelchair is possible.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Photo: © Adobe Stock Photos
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The escalation of various acute global crises seems to be increasingly condensing into a collective state of fear and shaping human behaviour in the process. fear:less explores the social conditions of fear and questions the role of the body within this context.
How much uncertainty can a body endure?
Does touch become a risk?
Are we losing our sense of connection to one another?
In a relentless and challenging pas de deux, dancers Dmitrijus Andrušanecas and Hanna Held seek an intense physical connection with each other. They surrender themselves to the other, challenge their counterpart, and resolutely explore what it means to be fear:less.
CREDITS
Artistic direction and choreography: Silke Z.
in collaboration with Performers: Hanna Held, Dmitrijus Andrušanecas
Light design: Garlef Keßler
Sound design: Liam Giles
DATES
Fri, 31.10.2025 | 8 pm
Followed by a Halloween party
Sat, 01.11.2025 | 8 pm
A physical introduction for everyone interested will take place at 7.30 p.m.
TICKETS
Sliding scale: 10 – 20 euros
Reservations at: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
fear:less is funded by Kulturamt der Stadt Köln.
Photo: © Dmitrij Matvejev
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Not every dream can be lived. Some voices remain unheard, some wishes invisible. Social boundaries often determine who is allowed to dream—and who is not. But dreams cannot be imprisoned. Through encounters, movement, and shared stories, a space is created in which everyone becomes visible and visions can take shape.
The dancers of cie.nomoreless explore this theme together with choreographer Anna Grakhanova. Over five intensive days, the group explores personal experiences and perspectives – and at the end invites the audience to a performative showing at the ehrenfeldstudios.
Performance Showing
Sun, 26.10.25 | 5 pm
Duration approx. 30 minutes.
Admission is free.
Barrier-free access.
Accompanying persons receive free admission.
On request we offer a touch tour before the performance. Please contact us via karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
CREDITS
Choreography: Anna Grakhanova
Performers: Lara Bergs, Aaron Fischer, Rabea Jürging, Paula Kinzinger, Florian Menzel, Lara Mettendorf, Hartmut Misgeld, Iris Schweitzer, Maike Seibt, Tuula Simon, Stephanie Terbrüggen, Clara Vilarinho
Mentoring | Dramaturgy: Gitta Roser, Paulina Jürges, Denise Albert
Music: MinorSurprise
Lighting design: Wolfgang Pütz
Photo and video documentation: Ben Drücker
The project is a collaboration between cie.nomoreless and Anna Grakhanova, who is creating her first choreography with a mixed-abled dance ensemble.
Website: www.nomoreless.eu
Funded by:
