Our festival opening on 4 NOV 2025
18. October 2025Healing Hate in the Leipzig Opera House: Swiss songwriter Bonaparte and other special guests!
4 – 9
NOV 2025
35TH INTERNATIONAL
DANCE AND
THEATER FESTIVAL
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Festival director Christian Watty introduces the program 2025!
6. October 2025Festival director Christian Watty introduces the program of euro-scene Leipzig 2025!
Three event highlights
Healing Hate
Caravan of LUV / Elia Rediger & int int irrit / Wiener Festwochen (Vienna / Basel / Berlin)euro-scene Leipzig kicks off this year with an ecstatic liberation strike. The twelve-member performance collective Caravan of LUV rocks the opera house. A mobile commune with new love songs, a spectacular happening: wild, political, unforgettable. Special Guest: Bonaparte, chorebeau and others
Tue, 4. 11.
Amazonen
Agrupación Señor Serrano / Wiener Festwochen / Dschungel Wien (Barcelona / Vienna)Using Lego figures, landscape models, live video, and protest images from the internet, the female storyteller brings the ancient myth of the Amazons to life for children aged six to twelve. The performance sparks a peer-led conversation about gender, justice, and resistance. ourning for a vanished world, but also of resistance.
Sat, 8. 11.
Sun, 9. 11.
Me too, Galatea
Pol Pi / Cie NO DRAMA (France / Brasil)Critical, sensual, liberating: the Brazilian Pol Pi combines the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea with the #MeToo movement by decorating himself with fruit to undermine gender boundaries, tropical clichés and patriarchal images of women. A subtle dance of projections.
Thu, 6. 11.
Fri, 7. 11.
Sat, 8. 11.
Trailer 2025
From 4 to 9 November 2025, a total of 14 productions with 33 individual events, including one world premiere, three German premieres and five co-productions, will be staged in Leipzig. The guest performances from the fields of dance, theatre and performance come from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa and Uganda.
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Press reviews
“Euro-Scene, which kicked off this year with the special format 'Ubuntu Connection', got off to a high-energy start. That was courageous, but consistent. Because the evening not only depicts the most diverse body languages, but also shows what unites the art of movement.”
Tobias Prüwer Kreuzer online
“The 34th Euro-Scene convinces with a sensitive look at the crises of the present. (...) again a reference to Ukraine and theater with a sensitive eye for the mechanisms of a migrant society.”
Dimo Rieß LVZ
"The new concept of the Euro-Scene competition is based on collective battles, i. e. danced duels. [...] The dancers celebrate each other and the audience is so exuberant that you have to call it a party. This can be said for the Euro-Scene as a whole. For a long time, the joy of theatre in Leipzig has not been as tangible as at this festival."
Tobias Prüwer Freie Presse
"So there's no sign of a dwindling audience or theatre fatigue in Leipzig and the consistently high quality gives us hope for next year. Under Christian Watty, euro-scene is back as a major player in the city."
Torben Ibs tanznetz
"Thunderous applause was heard on many occasions during the six-day marathon, which ended on Sunday. The foyers of the Schauspielhaus and other venues such as the Lofft, Schaubühne and TdJW were packed."
Tobias Prüwer KREUZER Leipzig
"The new hybrid forms of dance, music theatre and theatre, lectures, films and discussions, as presented by Christian Watty, the director of Leipzig's "euro-scene", in this year's second edition of the festival, are anything but enigmatic or elaborate, but rather inclusive, instructive, discursive, political and comprehensible."
Wiebke Hüster FAZ
“Never has a format such as the acclaimed dance competition been more important, because it truly creates an alternative to the egoisms and nationalisms of our time. Dancers from different genres improvise together to create a rousing evening. 'The potential of community', which presenter Raphael Moussa Hillebrand talks about on this evening, becomes visible.”
Dimo Rieß LVZ online
Main Supporters
euro-scene leipzig is institutionally supported by the City of Leipzig and the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Culture and Tourism. Co-financed by tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.