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Wednesday 27 August 2014
Ballet Preljocaj FR
Empty moves (parts I, II, III)
Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj
He is a master of storytelling with powerful images, and excellent at weaving extremely different threads into a single story. But Angelin Preljocaj can do other things. His cycle of “Empty moves” rejects ...
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Capitol Theater
Theatersaal
Erkrather Straße 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2014
18:30 – 19:10 - Duration: 40min
Ballet National de Marseille FR
ÉLÉGIE
Choreography: Olivier Dubois
Suggestive growls and Wagnerian sounds. A man emerges from a black cube made up of a teeming mass of dancers, followed by woman. They wrestle with elementary forces of nature like ghosts from the myth ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2014
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers US
Mandala Project
Choreography: Kun-Yang Lin
The dancers seem to flow into one another, interleaving ecstatically to meditative sounds and drawing on the trance dances of Sufi dervishes. The upshot is a series of captivating images of divine bodies. ...
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CENTRAL
Small Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2014
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
RUBBERBANDance Group CA
Empirical Quotient
Choreography: Victor Quijada
Has the show already begun? Seemingly at random the dancers warm up, stretch and relax. A rehearsal situation. Then a blackout. To a remix of violins, beats, scratching and opera the six dancers interweave ...
Anton Lachky Company BE/SK
Mind a Gap
Choreography: Anton Lachky
Where is Tonoland? Anton Lachky knows the way. He relies on the principle of a sequence of images on Mozart, Verdi and Tchaikovsky as well as on his gang of five. On a stage free of frills, he has complete ...
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Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Kleines Haus
Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz 1
40211 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2014
21:00 – 21:55 - Duration: 55min
Cecilia Moisio | Dansmakers Amsterdam NL
Juxtapose
Choreography: Cecilia Moisio
At the start, two ladies look like two cakes covered in a layer of icing: caricatures of traditional women’s roles in fifties’ clothes and Marilyn Monroe poses, but the perfect images rapidly collapse. ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2014
21:15 – 22:15 - Duration: 60min
Thursday 28 August 2014
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre US
Off the Top of My Head
Choreography: Heidi Duckler
Isn't it romantic? A couple fill the venerable spaces of the Düsseldorf Art Academy with uncontrolled embraces before taking us through the long corridor on the upper storey to the roof terrace. Düsseldorf ...
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Kunstakademie
Eiskellerstraße 1
40213 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
14:00 – 15:30 - Duration: 90min
QUARTO SE
Beauty of Accident
Choreography: Anna Mesquita, Leandro Zappala
A 700-meter long rope and two bodies. It’s impossible for us to take our eyes off the rope as it flows incessantly and fascinatingly through four hands. It all looks so simple and so beautiful – and ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
16:00 – 17:00 - Duration: 60min
annahuber.compagnie. CH
Aufräumarbeiten im Wasserfall
Choreography: Anna Huber
First the sun falls from the sky, the huge yellow ball becomes a projection area for mysterious images. Lost in a dream and dancing to spherical sounds a woman battles her way though a gigantic grid ...
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Fabrik Heeder
Big Stage & Small Stage
Virchowstraße 130
47805 Krefeld -
28 August 2014
16:00 – 17:45 - Duration: 105min
Sylvia Camarda LU
Martyr
Choreography: Sylvia Camarda
The female dancer stands unchallenged on the stage and celebrates her own martyrdom. She is partnered by Ravels “Bolero”, whose repetitive rhythm grows from pianissimo to an absolutely unbearable fortissimo. ...
NONAME SOSU KR
Not I
Choreography: Choi Young-hyun
Young-hyun Choi needs nothing more than himself and a life-size doll to translate Samuel Beckett’s stage monologue “Not I” into dance. In Beckett’s play a woman’s mouth articulates moments in an existence ...
De Stilte NL
Flying Cow
Choreography: Jack Timmermans
Playtime is fun yet serious at the same time. Once you’re totally immersed, anything can happen. Flying on the wings of their imagination, two girls and a boy embark on a standoff: because when there ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
16:00 – 16:45 - Duration: 45min
Spellbound Contemporary Ballet IT
Lost For Words Studio III
Choreography: Mauro Astolfi
Nine dancers clad in black trousers and anonymous grey-brown shirts. A sparse light on the stage. This is the minimalist setting for the final part of the trilogy “Lost for Words“, in which the dancers ...
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CENTRAL
Small Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
17:15 – 18:45 - Duration: 90min
Éva Duda Dance Company HU
Does It Start With A Kiss?
Choreography: Rosana Hribar & Gregor Luštek
She wears a tango dress, he a muscle shirt. Number three plays with his stomach muscles. Accompanied by a song by Hot Chocolate: I’ll put you together again? The atmosphere is raunchy, frivolous and ...
Jan Martens Cie BE/NL
Sweat Baby Sweat
Choreography: Jan Martens
“As long as you are here, I am too”. The phrase resounds throughout the room. And so an intimate duet unfolds, an acrobatic balancing act between a couple that cannot let go of each other and literally ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
19:00 – 20:00 - Duration: 60min
elledanse SK
The GAP
Choreography: Lucia Holinová
Here the audience become voyeurs. Peeping through holes and gaps onto a stage in a constantly changing spectrum of shining colours, they are given a glimpse of everyday situations. Two friends, a pair ...
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Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Kleines Haus
Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz 1
40211 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
19:00 – 20:00 - Duration: 60min
Kyle Abraham / Abraham.In.Motion US
Pavement
Choreography: Kyle Abraham
Kyle Abraham’s dance language is fierce and tender, he unites power and grace – and brings us down to earth. Kyle Abraham sets the history and current situation of black America in his hometown of Pittsburgh, ...
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Forum Leverkusen
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen -
28 August 2014
19:00 – 20:00 - Duration: 60min
Pere Faura SP
Diari d'accions
Choreography: Pere Faura, Iñaki Alvarez
People who feel like seeing themselves on stage should on no account miss Pere Faura. Not to worry, nobody is forced to do so. Nevertheless, the audience is caught on camera and becomes the background ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
19:15 – 20:15 - Duration: 60min
Compagnia Palermo in Danza IT
Uscita di Sciurezza
Choreography: Enrico Morelli
Is it still dance or is it war already? “Uscita di Sicurezza“ (lit: Safety Exit) tosses us brutally into an unfettered underground world full of flashes of lightning and blackouts; into a swarm of rhythmic ...
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Capitol Theater
Theatersaal
Erkrather Straße 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
21:00 – 22:05 - Duration: 65min
Room 2 Manoeuvre UK
Box Fresh
Choreography: Tony Mills
Two real guys. They play with their muscles, macho, relaxed and totally cool. They come from the street so it’s breakdance, innit? But in this case it’s not just B-Boying, but a precisely worked-out ...
Ben J. Riepe Kompanie DE
Der letzte Schrei - 2. Edition - artists are alive
Choreography: Ben J. Riepe
Fashion: the word evokes beauty and artificiality, blossoming and decay. Ephemeral as it is, it can even warn us of death. This at least is Ben J. Riepe’s artistic hypothesis for his cyclical work “All ...
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Kunsthalle
Grabbeplatz 4
40213 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
21:00 – 21:45 - Duration: 45min
BANDART Productions (L1 Association) HU
Dancing Graffiti - There's always a wall
Choreography: Ch. Katalin Lengyel | Media: iSzabolcs Tóth-Zs
You can always find a wall. And a socket. Scarcely anything more is needed for this magical pas de deux between a woman dancer and a digital brush. At times she surrenders to it, allows herself to be ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2014
22:00 – 22:20 - Duration: 20min
Friday 29 August 2014
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre US
Off The Top Of My Head
Choreography: Heidi Duckler
Isn't it romantic? A couple fill the venerable spaces of the Düsseldorf Art Academy with uncontrolled embraces before taking us through the long corridor on the upper storey to the roof terrace. Düsseldorf ...
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Kunstakademie
Eiskellerstraße 1
40213 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2014
12:00 – 12:20 - Duration: 20min
Cia Sònia Sánchez SP
El Pliegue
Choreography: Sònia Sánchez
“Bu” means dancing. “Tô” means stamping on the ground. When you know the meaning, the connection between Flamenco and Butoh does not seem so far-fetched. Flamenco dancing involves rhythmic foot techniques ...
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Fabrik Heeder
Big Stage & Small Stage
Virchowstraße 130
47805 Krefeld -
29 August 2014
16:00 – 17:32 - Duration: 92min
Lenka Vagnerová & Company CZ
RIDERS
Choreography: Lenka Vagnerová
A revered figure sits looking down from a birds-eye view at dancers caught in their down-to-earth human activities. The dancers create and re-create new images from the world of birds in cool surroundings ...
Lenka Vagnerová & Company CZ
RIDERS
Choreography: Lenka Vagnerová
A revered figure sits looking down from a birds-eye view at dancers caught in their down-to-earth human activities. The dancers create and re-create new images from the world of birds in cool surroundings ...
Andrea Costanzo Martini IL
What happened in Torino?
Choreography: Andrea Costanzo Martini
Has this half naked man gone crazy? Wild spasms change into meticulous circling pirouettes in slow motion. Andrea Costanzo Martini accompanies the meditative sounds of Arvo Pärt and the hysterical screams ...
tanzfuchs PRODUKTION DE
Alles im Eimer!
Choreography: Barbara Fuchs
Grief, rage, happiness. In a child’s universe emotions are disproportionately larger than in the self-controlled world of adults. Barbara Fuchs empathises with this universe in a sensitive and playful ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2014
16:00 – 16:45 - Duration: 45min
Ando Danse Compagnie FR
Christoffa
Choreography: Davy Brun
Dance as dance? What else? Davy Brun, like Columbus, is an explorer who moves forward into unknown realms of captivating beauty which are waiting to be (re)discovered. Forceful and fleeting, structured ...
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CENTRAL
Small Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2014
17:15 – 18:07 - Duration: 52min
battery opera performance CA
Everything
Choreography: Lee Su-Feh
She is the all-embracing mistress of ceremonies. With concentrated respect she transforms the stage into a sacred space. Her meditative gestures move between far-Eastern traditions and Western dance ...
Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre LT
Waiting for Godot
Choreography: Martynas Rimeikis
A bare room, a road to nowhere. Vladimir and Estragon, the protagonists in Samuel Beckett’s play are two sad, gentle, graceful clowns in this melancholic miniature on stretching out time. They wander ...
Moving Borders MX
NOSOTROS
Choreography: Jaciel Neri
Are we still friends? Or are we brothers already? These four dancers have something youthful about them when they whistle and wrestle, play football in the street, race towards one another and dance ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2014
19:00 – 20:03 - Duration: 63min
Dafi Dance Group IL
Never the Less
Choreography: Dafi Altabeb
This relationship has something hopeless and desperate about it. As close as the two dancers are – their leaps are a form of avoidance, their embrace a loss of self. Their harmony is complete and simultaneously ...
EDx2 Dance Company KR
Modern Feeling
Choreography: Lee In-Soo
Two dancers dance with and against each other, synchronously and non-synchronously, embrace and strike one another. Their movements are athletic, highly physical and dynamic, somewhere between contemporary ...
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Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Kleines Haus
Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz 1
40211 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2014
19:00 – 20:15 - Duration: 75min
Goblin Party KR
I Go
Choreography: Lim Jin-Ho
Stillness and movement. A pair of opposites inextricably linked with one another. Three dancers explore the transitions. Falling eternally slowly only to suddenly leap endlessly upwards, bidding farewell ...
Art project Bora KR
A Long talk to oneself
Choreography: Kim Bora
She is utterly alone, involved in a dialogue: Bora Kim is conducting a conversation with a video of herself projected on stage. In the confrontation with her own self, visible in sequences from earlier ...
Aakash Odedra limited UK
Murmur / Inked
Choreography: Murmur: Aakash Odedra & Lewis Major / Inked: Damien Jalet
Books, newspapers, emails – the written word helps us to understand one another. But what happens when the letters of the alphabet swirl around and words make no sense any more? In “Murmur,” Aakash Odedra, ...
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Forum Leverkusen
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen -
29 August 2014
19:00 – 20:30 - Duration: 90min
La Veronal SP
Siena
Choreography: Marcos Morau
A museum at night. A huge Titian, the portrait of a naked woman. A woman is sitting gazing at the picture. A man stands in a doorway watching the woman. Female dancers in fencing clothes perform a scurrilous, ...
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Capitol Theater
Theatersaal
Erkrather Straße 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2014
21:30 – 22:30 - Duration: 60min
Cie étantdonné FR
Les Noces
Choreography: Frédérike Unger, Jérôme Ferron
Five young people, at first separated and then circling one another. They play about, touch each other, let each other go. A wedding party. The atmosphere, at first relaxed, then boisterous, becomes ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2014
21:30 – 22:15 - Duration: 45min
BANDART Productions (L1 Association) HU
Dancing Graffiti - There's always a wall
Choreography: Ch. Katalin Lengyel | Media: iSzabolcs Tóth-Zs
You can always find a wall. And a socket. Scarcely anything more is needed for this magical pas de deux between a woman dancer and a digital brush. At times she surrenders to it, allows herself to be ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2014
22:00 – 22:20 - Duration: 20min
Saturday 30 August 2014
KOPERGIETERY BE
The (im)possible Friendship Between Augustijn and Stef
Choreography: Seppe Baeyens
Is this the start of a wonderful friendship? Hardly possible. One of the two, Augustijn , is a seven-year old, curly red-head with a shy smile. The other, Stef, is a bearded hipster and a real weirdo. ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
30 August 2014
16:00 – 16:45 - Duration: 45min
Danish Dance Theatre DK
Black Diamond
Choreography: Tim Rushton
The pieces of coal in the black diamond have developed so much that they have turned into electrical conductors. This is, in any case. what happens in the latest production by the Danish Dance Theatre. ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
30 August 2014
19:00 – 20:15 - Duration: 75min
Bereishit Dance Company KR
Balance & Imbalance
Choreography: Park Soon-ho
An experiment between East and West, a study of differing movement sensations. Whipped on by drums, two then four, and finally six dancers drive themselves on and on. A master of ceremonies bellows orders. ...
Huang Yi TW
Double Yellow Lines
Choreography: Huang Yi
Whether we discover the yellow lines or not depends on our powers of imagination. Maybe it’s a strip of ivory piano keys illuminated in the dark. Or could it be an ultimatum, “no stopping here“, a possible ...
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CENTRAL
Small Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
30 August 2014
19:00 – 20:30 - Duration: 90min
Lucyna Zwolinska DE
Droga
Choreography: Lucyna Zwolinska
Against a backdrop of rushing rain and piano music Lucyna Zwolinska presents us with the sight of three graceful Asian dancers confronting the impressive figure of a two-metre tall man. The young choreographer ...
Iseli-Chiodi Company, Lux Boreal and Horsemen Pass By IE/MX
Fit/Misfit
Choreography: Alexandre Iseli & Jazmin Chiodi
Martial dynamism, total exhaustion, aimless floundering and cool pulp fiction outfits. Four dancers confront each other in an undefined place in a white no-mans-land between Ireland and Mexico. Black ...
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Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Kleines Haus
Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz 1
40211 Düsseldorf -
30 August 2014
19:00 – 19:45 - Duration: 45min
Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor IL
Two Room Apartment
Choreography: Niv Sheinfeld, Oren Laor
Two areas mark out two rooms and a common living space. Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, a couple in real life and on stage, pace off their relationship. Unsympathetically minimalist and astonishingly physical, ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
30 August 2014
19:15 – 20:15 - Duration: 60min
Helsinki Dance Company FI
Jemina - act as you'd know her
Choreography: Jyrki Karttunen
“In the real world” is the song in the background, and we would love this to be the real world: Green fingernails, glamour and trash, turquoise glitter around our eyes and a completely pink robe. Is ...
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Capitol Theater
Theatersaal
Erkrather Straße 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
30 August 2014
21:00 – 22:15 - Duration: 75min
Noema Dance Works / Alexandra Waierstall DE
Archaeologies Of A Near Future
Choreography: Alexandra Waierstall
What can make darkness visible and silence audible? How can movement be felt and perceptions be made conscious? In her work for three dancers the Düsseldorf choreographer Alexandra Waierstall examines ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
30 August 2014
21:00 – 22:30 - Duration: 90min
Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater RU
Horizon and Beyond
Choreography: Olga Pona
For all its stringent form this show is highly physical. Four women dancers – or should we speak of contortionists who twist, tie themselves into knots, repel and attract each other to a suggestive blend ...