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!
A man whirls in the storm, exposed to irrepressible forces. Or does he himself decide between abyss and take-off, surrender and rebellion? At the limits of balance, Manuel Roque performs true masterpieces of physicality and poses elementary questions about our relationship to nature.
Québecs Shooting Star der Tanzszene bringt ein zweites Meisterwerk ins diesjährige Festivalprogramm: In einem intimen Ritual fordern zwei athletische Tänzer ihre eigenen Körper genauso heraus wie die Gesetze der Schwerkraft.
FIGHT revisits the struggle for reproductive rights in Yugoslavia, which paved the way for today’s discourse about the right to sexual pleasure.
In this duet, Taiwanese dancer Chou Shu-Yi and Singaporean dancer Lee Mun Wai, who lives in Berlin, explore how political systems and cultural influences shape our biographies, our thoughts and actions.
In his performance ALIENATION III, Ugandan choreographer Robert Ssempijja deals with the colonial traces in the architecture of his home city of Kampala, designed by German architect Ernst May. He stages the feeling of alienation and examines how colonial urban planning still affects social life today.
For the first time, choreographers Cristiana Morganti and Emanuele Soavi are together on stage – as perfor mers and as authors. A dialogue about origins, experi ences and choreographic work in the present day unfolds, leading to a pointed portrait of two artistic lives and two Italians living in Germany.
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.
Director Mila Turajlić’s live documentary performance uncovers forgotten film archives to reveal the lost legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement. Through rare footage and personal stories, she challenges dominant histories and brings decolonial perspectives to light.
The South African performer and humanist dares to enter into a direct dialogue with the audience in a liberating exchange of ideas that makes new forms of thought and action conceivable. PEOPLE WILL PEOPLE YOU is an act of liberation, a gift to the spectators in Leipzig.
Walking is more than just a means of transport; it can also be meditation. SLOW WALK is a work for everyone to join in. Where, in all slowness, an experience is created in one’s own body that expands consciousness and redefines the relationship to our surroundings. Slowing down our all too hectic everyday lives starts with walking. Welcome to SLOW WALK!
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.
In his electrifying solo BATTY BWOY, Norwegian- Jamaican choreographer and performer Harald Beharie reclaims a homophobic slur to create a multi-layered creature on stage. The visceral and award-winning choreography unravels and reimagines myths, clichés, and fantasies surrounding Black queer bodies with fierce vulnerability and subversive joy.
The world of dance is colourful, especially with Trajal Harrell. In his solo, the highly sensitive American, who most recently directed the dance ensemble of the Zurich Schauspielhaus, scrutinises the criteria by which art is judged.
A unique opportunity to discover the distinctive style of choreographer Manuel Roque, who combines improvisation, gravity, weight, vibration, tempo, attention and joy of movement.
Four extraordinary artists – four radical and very different ways in which they make their bodies the instruments of their art. In this documentary film, Evelyn Schels portrays Marina Abramović, Sigalit Landau, Shirin Neshat and Katharina Sieverding.
In this session with Robert Ssempijja, participants immerse themselves in his daily studio practice and then reflect on the interplay between art, experience and community.
A conversation with director Tjaša Črnigoj about women's self-determination in the former Yugoslavia and the struggles that continue to this day.
Documentary film about two men who underwent gender reassignment surgery and later reversed the procedure.
Philosopher Jule Govrin gives an insight into her book POLITISCHE KÖRPER, showing how social inequality creates structural vulnerability. This she opposes with politics of care and solidarity.
This workshop uses theatre and movement improvisation to explore stage presence, individuality, group dynamics, and the body as a poetic, sensory, and political tool, building a shared language beyond words.
From 4 to 9 November 2025, a total of 14 productions and 33 individual events, including one world premiere, one more world premiere in cooperation with HELLERAU, three German premieres and four co-productions, will be staged in Leipzig. The artists come from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, France, Canada, Austria,Norway, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Taiwan, Uganda and USA and more countries.
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.
