From 8 to 13 November 2022, a total of 12 productions from Belgium, France, Italy, Congo, Mozambique and Hungary, among others, were brought to the stage. With three world premieres and four German premieres, numerous events from the fields of dance and theatre could be experienced in Germany for the first time this year.
Star choreographer Jan Martens takes the 2019 street protests in Hong Kong as an opportunity to translate the struggle for democracy, freedom and civil rights into a coordinate system of spatial norms and movement patterns.
Three Italian full-blooded mums live from knitting and offering their bodies for sale. They represent a female proletariat that is doubly and triply marginalised. Only one is even worse off: Arturo, the young autistic man who the three women take in and care for.
After being cancelled last year, the electrifying and award-winning dance piece SOUL CHAIN, choreographed by Sharon Eyal, the icon of the young generation of choreographers in Israel, is finally coming to Leipzig.
GROUP50:50, a collective of artists from the Congo, Switzerland and Germany, commemorates the fate of seven "pygmy" skeletons brought to Geneva from the Congo by a Swiss doctor in 1952.
TEATRO AMAZONAS tells the story of how the rainforest in the Amazon region has been systematically destroyed for over 500 years. Even today, megalomaniac and unscrupulous European adventurers, industrialists and investors are still trying to take over the habitat and culture of the indigenous peoples living there by force.
The Leipzig-based FORWARD DANCE COMPANY takes a critical and personal look at the iconic ballet Swan Lake, which also stands for an idealised body image, and questions what is considered supposedly "normal" or "beautiful".
Seven of Ukraine’s most talented young circus artists rise from a soil-covered stage to talk about their love for and devotion to their homeland. | Вони були на гастролях у Франції, коли почалася війна: цирковий віртуоз і шестеро віртуозів з різних регіонів України, які зібралися разом у Будапешті у 2018 році.
UBUNTU CONNECTION is a new battle format on two evenings at euro-scene Leipzig: 16 artists from dance and new circus will compete with and for each other on stage. On the first evening, the participants will introduce themselves with solo performances, followed by a battle session with a live band on the second.
Claire is fifteen. She experiences her first love, her first sexual relationship, with her first boyfriend Fabien. After this first experience, Claire is pregnant. Unplanned!
In the solo dance piece SAVUŠUN, Sorour Darabi combines reminiscences of Shiite rites with her:his own experiences of gender identity, fear and suffering. How can people determine their own bodies when they are neither man nor woman and also belong to a cultural minority?
In MENTIRAS APLAUDIDAS (Acclaimed Lies), three dancers and two musicians invite us to allow other perspectives on the history of civilisation and not to assume that "the West" is the only rational socio-political system.
To close the festival at Oper Leipzig, we have invited Maguy Marin, the most important representative of dance theatre in France, and the Leipzig ballet director Mario Schröder to premiere a new double bill together.
With important contemporary witnesses and breathtaking dance scenes, the two-part film tells the story of the global triumph of so-called street dance, whose beginnings can be traced back to the time of the first slave ships and plantation economy in America.
A documentary film about the great French dancer and choreographer Maguy Marin with excerpts from many of her works. Her career and her political positions are a commitment to boldness, courage and struggle.
We are entering a new era of postcolonial debate. In this historic moment, GROUP50:50 invites artists, activists and thinkers from Europe and Africa to lay the foundations for a transnational restitution movement.
Despite all the destruction caused by the Russian war of aggression, many Ukrainian artists still find the strength to continue working. In our conversation, we ask about the situation of art and culture during the war. | У нашій розмові йтиметься про становище культури та мистецтва в часи війни. Як почуваються українські мисткині та митці в Україні та поза її межами?
Professional training sessions with festival artists, exclusive insights into the creation of a piece, different dance techniques and artistic working methods.
Zum zweiten Mal präsentiert die euro-scene Leipzig in Kooperation mit 4fT Tanzplattform Leipzig an zwei Tagen die Dynamik und Innovationskraft der unabhängigen Tanzszene in Europa. Die Künstler:innen aus vier Ländern zeigen kurze Performances, Pitchings und Präsentationen und gehen anschließend in den Austausch mit dem Publikum.
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.
