Performances
The Tanzmesse programming team has had the honour to create the 2016 Tanzmesse programme out of more than 700 proposals. Here you can find the programme of performances that will take place on stages in Düsseldorf, Krefeld and Leverkusen. Most performance descriptions are online, by the end of May the complete programme will be available.
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Wednesday 31 August 2016
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tanzhaus Foyer
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
18:00 – 19:00 - Duration: 60min
Andersson Dance & Scottish Ensemble SE
Goldberg Variations - ternary patterns for insomnia
Choreography: Örjan Andersson
In this new interpretation of J. S. Bach's masterpiece, eleven musicians and five dancers are choreographed together on stage as equal partners, giving the audience the singular experience of musicians ...
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Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
20:00 – 21:05 - Duration: 65min
Nicola Galli IT
delle ultime visioni cutanee
Choreography: Nicola Galli / TIR Danza
Delle ultime visioni cutanee is based on the presentation of an installation environment, applying in an analytical way the principle of reproduction in the greenhouse. In this habitat the plant begins ...
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Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
20:00 – 20:40 - Duration: 40min
Compagnie Autre MiNa FR
Génération [pomm]ée
Choreography: Mitia Fedotenko
The ambiguous title of Génération [pomm]ée (lost generation) is a wordplay referring both to the feeling of helplessness ("paumée") and the Apple logo ("pomme"), symbol of an ultra-technological ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
20:00 – 21:00 - Duration: 60min
Cie Philipe Saire CH
Vacuum
Choreography: Philippe Saire
Vacuum generates impossible images and fantastic paintings, an interplay of bodies appearing and disappearing between black holes and dazzling lights. This duo is the third part of Dispositifs, a series ...
Raimund Hoghe DE
Songs for Takashi
Choreography: Raimund Hoghe
With Songs for Takashi Raimund Hoghe continues his cooperation with dancer Takashi Ueno, who has turned into one of his most important protagonists in recent years. In Songs for Takashi Hoghe makes Ueno, ...
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Stahlwerk
Ronsdorfer Str. 134
40233 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
20:00 – 21:20 - Duration: 80min
Choy Ka Fai SG
SoftMachine: Rianto
Choreography: Choy Ka Fai
Artist Choy Ka Fai has been compiling an inventory of Asian dance since 2012. For his multimedia archive and performance cycle SoftMachine, he has collected 88 interviews with dance makers and created ...
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FFT Kammerspiele
Jahnstr. 3
40215 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
20:00 – 21:10 - Duration: 70min
Classifiable Movement HK
Line II
Choreography: Chen Kai
As one of the creations of the Classifiable Movement series, Line II is a visionary exploration and investigation of the geometric human body in relation to its linear movement. Gun-shu, a martial arts ...
Cie Mossoux-Bonté BE
Vice Versa
Choreography: Nicole Mossoux, Patrick Bonté
Entangled in physical intimacy, two women swing back and forth. As if melted into one, they make a common stand against the violence of the world. They move to the rhythm of an ancient song lamenting ...
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Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
21:15 – 22:30 - Duration: 75min
KOREOPROJECT DE
Try Zwei
Choreography: Giorgia Maddamma & Stephan Brinkmann
A woman and a man make out differences and similarities, in dance and by dancing. They experience distance and closeness. They playfully experiment with touching, embracing and lifting each other, thus ...
Léa Tirabasso LU
love me tender
Choreography: Léa Tirabasso
"Love is only the species' will for survival", says Arthur Schopenhauer in The Metaphysics of Love. love me tender unravels the hidden sides of our minds and our bitter but yet oh so sweet fantasies. ...
Katja Heitmann NL
For iTernity
Choreography: Katja Heitmann
The individual experience will take 15-20 minutes. For iTernity is a requiem for an eternal dying swan, a dance-performance without a dancer. In For iTernity you are the only physical body, together ...
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tanzhaus Außenbereich
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
22:00 – 23:59 - Duration: 119min
Carte Blanche - The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance NO
The Who of Things
Choreography: Marcelo Evelin
The Brazilian Indians thought of everything in the world as human: stones, trees, the sky, the rain. They also believed in preserving “the other” within themselves by means of cannibalism. Using ...
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Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
31 August 2016
23:00 – 23:50 - Duration: 50min
Thursday 1 September 2016
Regionteater Väst SE
Utmaningar (Challenges)
Choreography: Kasper Ravnhøj/Noora Hannula
This dance performance consists of 22 scenes. Each poses a challenge in the form of conflicts, struggles, misunderstandings, or differences. As in a dream there is constant transformation, resulting ...
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Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
1 September 2016
11:30 – 12:30 - Duration: 60min
Angie Hiesl Produktion DE
ID-clash
Choreography: Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser
Intercultural Performance and Installation Project on Trans Identity / Trans Sexuality Male? Female? Other? Transgender people do not conform to the expectations of the gender role assigned to them at ...
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tanzhaus Außenbereich
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
1 September 2016
15:45 – 17:30 - Duration: 105min
Janine Fletcher (solo artist) GB
Trace Elements
Choreography: Janine Fletcher
A woman struggles to hold herself together; she goes over it again and again, trying to figure it out and leave it behind, but old habits die hard. Trace Elements asks the audience to witness the discomfort ...
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Fabrik Heeder
Big Stage & Small Stage
Virchowstraße 130
47805 Krefeld -
1 September 2016
16:00 – 18:30 - Duration: 150min
NANOHACH CZ
DEVOID
Choreography: Michal Záhora
At the beginning there were letters written by real people expressing their secret emotions, worries, fears. These authentic confessions, spun into a single polyphonic text, challenge the dancer to enter ...
Black Box Dance Company DK
100 LIKES
Choreography: Mari Carrasco
What happens if you do not get any "LIKES"? If you have no profile on Facebook or Instagram, does it mean you do not exist? 100 LIKES is about young people's vulnerability, their dependence on social ...
Meimage Dance TW
Camouflage
Choreography: Ho, Hsiao-Mei
Camouflage is the best way to ensure survival. It helps us to disguise frailty, gloominess and other qualities we want to hide from other people's eyes. Pretending to be someone else can generate new ...
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Forum Leverkusen
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen -
1 September 2016
19:00 – 21:00 - Duration: 120min
National Dance Company Wales GB
Folk
Choreography: Caroline Finn
Folk will feature artistic director Caroline Finn’s darkly comic expressions of life and people, using her quirky and highly engaging choreographic style. Exploring themes of social dynamics, familiar ...
Alexandra Waierstall DE
And here we meet
Choreography: Alexandra Waierstall
The duet And here we meet is linked to Alexandra Waierstall's latest work A CITY SEEKING ITS BODIES (2015) in collaboration with the composer and pianist HAUSCHKA as well as an outlook of their upcoming ...
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FFT Juta
FFT Juta, Blackbox
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
1 September 2016
20:00 – 21:00 - Duration: 60min
Montréal Danse CA
Prisms
Choreography: Benoît Lachambre
Prisms, a colourful choreographic extravagance by Benoît Lachambre, looks into the presence and radiance of bodies. Abounding in humour and inventiveness, Prisms plays on our perceptions by means of ...
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Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
1 September 2016
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
ROSER LÓPEZ ESPINOSA ES
NOVEMBER
Choreography: Roser López Espinosa
NOVEMBER is a playing field for three dancers to create an autumnal landscape. As if posing for a collection of postcards, their bodies become entangled in physical games, constructions and mechanisms. ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
1 September 2016
21:00 – 21:50 - Duration: 50min
compagnie MAD FR
MEMENTO VIVERE
Choreography: Sylvain Groud
MEMENTO VIVERE, which literally translates as "Remember you must live", is an enthusiastic celebration of life, a hymn to the present moment. The dancers' bodies express, in haiku-like concision, the ...
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Stahlwerk
Ronsdorfer Str. 134
40233 Düsseldorf -
1 September 2016
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
VerTeDance CZ
CORRECTION
Choreography: VerTeDance & Jiří Havelka
Imagine a world where you cannot progress no matter how hard you try. Your feet are tied to the ground while the object of your desire might be ever so near, but you cannot reach it. Or can you? VerTeDance ...
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FFT Kammerspiele
Jahnstr. 3
40215 Düsseldorf -
1 September 2016
21:00 – 21:50 - Duration: 50min
Shan Gao Dance DE
A daydream enters the infinite darkness
Choreography: Shan Gao
"Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you." Mevlana Rumi, Persian poet and mystic. Facebook Twitter Instagram
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Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
1 September 2016
21:15 – 22:40 - Duration: 85min
Company SIGA KR
Rest
Choreography: Lee Jaeyoung
A ball restlessly bouncing on the ground. A body imbued with inexhaustible energy. And both yearning for a rest. Starting off with the ball as a prop, it soon becomes an image for the dancers' bodies ...
YANG Hao HK
Outspoken
Choreography: Yang Hao
Outspoken is a reflection on the limits of dance as a means of expression. Yang Hao faces the boundaries of a discipline he has studied since childhood. Owing to the fact that dance is in many respects ...
Friday 2 September 2016
Angie Hiesl Produktion DE
ID-clash
Choreography: Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser
Intercultural Performance and Installation Project on Trans Identity / Trans Sexuality Male? Female? Other? Transgender people do not conform to the expectations of the gender role assigned to them at ...
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tanzhaus Außenbereich
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
15:45 – 17:30 - Duration: 105min
Arts Mouvementés CH
Le Récital des Postures
Choreography: Yasmine Hugonnet
A recital is a concert for a single instrument – in this case, for a body. In nearly utter silence on a bare stage, the soloist strikes poses – postures – maintains them in a meditative fashion, ...
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Fabrik Heeder
Big Stage & Small Stage
Virchowstraße 130
47805 Krefeld -
2 September 2016
16:00 – 18:00 - Duration: 120min
collettivo NaDa / Interno5 IT
ACROSS THE BORDER / a human journey into the beauty
Choreography: Antonello Tudisco
Can we break the boundaries drawn by space and go beyond the limits of human touch? And if so, how can we stay true to beauty? A number of works of art from various epochs and cultures (Michelangelo's ...
Joan Clevillé Dance GB
Plan B for Utopia
Choreography: Joan Clevillé
You have a plan, and then you don't. You have a dream, and then you wake up. You fall in love, and your heart gets broken. The question is: do you pick up the pieces and try again? Swinging between humour ...
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FFT Kammerspiele
Jahnstr. 3
40215 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
16:00 – 17:00 - Duration: 60min
diskodanny.com SG
Cheerleader of Europe
Choreography: Daniel Kok
Europeans have become impatient and sceptical about the European Project. Austerity measures, terrorism and immigration fears cast a long shadow across the continent. One artist, who believes in the ...
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FFT Juta
FFT Juta, Blackbox
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
18:00 – 19:00 - Duration: 60min
Rojas y Rodríguez ES
Titanium
Choreography: Carlos Rodríguez
Titanium unites dance styles born on the street: break dance mixed with flamenco attitude and the rawness of hip-hop culture. The all-male cast of nine dancers fuse urban styles with a shared history ...
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Forum Leverkusen
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen -
2 September 2016
19:00 – 21:00 - Duration: 120min
Jeon misook Dance Company KR
Bow
Choreography: Jeon misook
Is bowing merely a gesture of welcome or is there a deeper meaning behind it? The Korean choreography Bow centres around a widespread gesture in Eastern culture, an act full of beauty showing politeness ...
Liquid Loft AT
Candy's Camouflage - Imploding Portraits Inevitable
Choreography: Chris Haring
The Imploding Portraits Inevitable-Series, inspired by the film-work of Andy Warhol, continues with the new performance Candy’s Camouflage. Projections of the feminine – or what one may take for ...
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Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
E-Motion DE
Rōnin - Made in Germany
Choreography: Takao Baba
Is there a parallel between the image of the Japanese Rōnin, the abandoned and homeless Samurai warrior, and the reality of an immigration society like Germany? What makes people radicalise when they ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
MMContemporary Dance Company IT
Bolero
Choreography: Michele Merola
Ravel's Bolero (1928) has lost nothing of its overwhelming force and all-pervading sensuality. In his interpretation, the choreographer focuses on the almost inexhaustible range of human relations, particularly ...
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Stahlwerk
Ronsdorfer Str. 134
40233 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
21:00 – 22:10 - Duration: 70min
Victor Fung Dance HK
FROM THE TOP
Choreography: Victor Fung
FROM THE TOP is a witty dance work that explores the power relations between performers and dance makers. The audience witness a fictional scenario based on the everyday life of dance artists and look ...
Maciej Kuźmiński PL
Repetition
Choreography: Maciej Kuźmiński
Repetition, a visual essay about the essence of identity, poses the question if there is such a thing as repetition. As in Bergman's Persona, the differences and similarities between two women seem to ...
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Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
21:15 – 22:10 - Duration: 55min
B.DANCE TW
Hugin/Munin
Choreography: Po-Cheng Tsai
In old Norse mythology there are two ravens sitting on either shoulder of Odin: Hugin and Munin, whose names mean "thought" and "memory", respectively. Flying out over Midgard (as their world is called), ...
Luke George and Collaborators AU
Erotic Dance
Choreography: Luke George
Erotic Dance is a duet between dancer, Luke George and sound artist, Nick Roux. Exploring the sensuality of form, it summons an experience of art that is primitive and seductive, intimate and visceral. ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
22:00 – 22:50 - Duration: 50min
diskodanny.com SG
Cheerleader of Europe
Choreography: Daniel Kok
Europeans have become impatient and sceptical about the European Project. Austerity measures, terrorism and immigration fears cast a long shadow across the continent. One artist, who believes in the ...
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FFT Juta
FFT Juta, Blackbox
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
2 September 2016
22:00 – 22:50 - Duration: 50min
Saturday 3 September 2016
Angie Hiesl Produktion DE
ID-clash
Choreography: Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser
Intercultural Performance and Installation Project on Trans Identity / Trans Sexuality Male? Female? Other? Transgender people do not conform to the expectations of the gender role assigned to them at ...
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tanzhaus Außenbereich
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
3 September 2016
15:45 – 17:30 - Duration: 105min
Kerman FR
C2I
Choreography: Sebastien Ly
On a dimly lit stage otherwise drowned in darkness, the dancer's slightest body jerks become visible. The mellow brownish light hints at the colour of a negative film, which the dancer transforms into ...
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Fabrik Heeder
Big Stage & Small Stage
Virchowstraße 130
47805 Krefeld -
3 September 2016
16:00 – 18:10 - Duration: 130min
In Theatre TW
Tschüss!! Bunny
Choreography: Liu Yen Cheng
The phrase, qu si ba ni, which means ‘Go To Hell!’ in Chinese is transliterated into ‘Tschüss!! Bunny.’ These terms contribute to the idea of death and goodbye and epitomize the main concept ...
<fidget> US
Dust
Choreography: Megan Bridge
Time expands, narrative shimmers forth and slips away; formalism meets humanity in fidget's staging of Robert Ashley's opera Dust. With a cast of five dancers, choreographer Megan Bridge cultivates a ...
XL Production BE
Têtes à Têtes
Choreography: Maria Clara Villa Lobos
Têtes à Têtes follows the adventures and misadventures of two (literally) big-headed, puppet-like characters. Their habitat is projected in the form of animated drawings with which they interact as ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
3 September 2016
16:00 – 16:50 - Duration: 50min
Destins Croisés CA
Lien(s) /Link(s)
Choreography: Ismaël Mouaraki
Link(s) unveils an abstract, experimental universe, where urban and contemporary dance converge. Five performers bring the boundless possibilities of the body to attention, highlighting the physical, ...
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Forum Leverkusen
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen -
3 September 2016
19:00 – 21:00 - Duration: 120min
DON GNU DK
N.A.R.G. - North Arena Rumble Game
Choreography: Jannik Elkaer and Kristoffer Louis Andrup Pedersen
As the stage floor is replaced by a large and undulating balancing disk, the terms and means of physical expression and meaning are drastically rewritten in DON GNU's latest performance N.A.R.G. - North ...
LeeSaar The Company US
... and roses
Choreography: Choreographer: Saar Harari, Assistant to choreographer: Lee Sher
Raised in Israel, choreographer/dancer Saar Harari experienced guns as an everyday presence in his upbringing. Being a soldier in Israel's Special Forces, he forged an intimate relationship with firearms. ...
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Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
3 September 2016
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
Theo Clinkard GB
OF LAND AND TONGUE
Choreography: Theo Clinkard
Through eloquent dance, conversation and song, an exceptional cast of seven engage their audience in an intimate celebration of language and experience. OF LAND AND TONGUE, staged at unconventional venues ...
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Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
3 September 2016
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
NBprojects NL
3: THE GARDEN
Choreography: Nicole Beutler
Back to nature – a romantic performance. Nature stands for purity, authenticity and freedom, whereas culture is man-made and denotes civilisation, order, and planning. In her work 3: THE GARDEN, Nicole ...
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Stahlwerk
Ronsdorfer Str. 134
40233 Düsseldorf -
3 September 2016
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
Soul City FR
Priyèr' Sï Priyèr'
Choreography: Didier Boutiana
In Priyèr' Sï Pryièr', three dancers delve into the realm of the sacred. Inspired by the religious and cultural practices of La Réunion, they develop their own rites, which they enrich with modern ...
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FFT Kammerspiele
Jahnstr. 3
40215 Düsseldorf -
3 September 2016
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
IceCraft Creations Pvt Ltd IN
Kin
Choreography: Miriam Peretz, Aakash Odedra and Kumudini Lakhia
Sanjukta Sinha, one of India's most distinguished Kathak dancers, combines traditional Kathak with contemporary dance. The result is Kin, a piece consisting of three parts that sets out to discover the ...
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Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
3 September 2016
21:15 – 22:20 - Duration: 65min