Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
Marie Chouinard! The grande dame of Québec’s dance scene first pays tribute to Bach in a radiant, paradisiacal Baroque ballet. She then transforms Henri Michaux’s ink drawings into vibrant, fluid bodies. An evening of striking contrasts and exceptional artistry.
In NKUL NNAM (The Drum of the Village), traditional rituals from Central Africa merge with the spirit of the rave. In Athena Lucie Assamba’s electrifying performance, sacred heritage becomes the starting point for an Afrofuturist vision.
Cooking and performance meet in Jaha Koo’s Korean street food stall. Surrounded by the aromas of Korean cuisine, he reflects on his life between Korea and Europe with subtle humour – and invites the audience to get a taste of his journey and his food.
Three women fleeing, a newborn child, and an interrogation that calls everything into question. THE CHILD explores the experience of fleeing, of care, and what humanity means at a border behind which a society shuts itself off from those seeking protection.
An autograph session takes an unexpected turn. A 1980s TV hero meets his fans – until a nostalgic reunion transforms into an absurd yet deeply moving portrait of our times.
The internationally acclaimed tanzmainz ensemble and one of Germany’s most distinctive choreographers, Moritz Ostruschnjak, transform gestures and movements found online into a high-energy choreography about howdigital imagery shapes our bodies and the way we relate to one another.
Liam Francis is a rising innovator of the British dance scene. His dynamic movement language draws on a wide range of styles and brings together dancers with diverse artistic backgrounds and individual movementvocabularies.
No dance form seems as devoted to the cult of youth as hip-hop. But breakers grow older, too. IN MY BODY brings together different generations in a captivating dance of unity, where youthful energy meets experiencewith passion and optimism.
Four Syrian theatre artists in exile confront an urgent question: What does it mean to return? Blending memories, humour and music, EXERCISES FOR A POSSIBLE RETURN explores home, identity and a debate thatconcerns Europe as well.
The dancer on the excavator bucket… In the worldwide sensation TRANSPORTS EXCEPTIONNELS, human and machine enter into a thrilling dialogue of wildness, elegance and harmony. The steel beast spins and breathes, while the dancer floats in a poetry of movement. A battle – or a flirt?
Who picks the olives on our plates? CAMPOBELLO intertwines a love story with the reality of migrant harvest workers in Sicily, whose lives are shaped by exploitation, institutional racism and resistance.
Alexandra „Spicey“ Landé, Schlüsselfigur der Hip-Hop-Tanzszene in Québec, entfaltet das breite Spektrum der Emotionen, wenn Paare, Cliquen oder Familien ihre Beziehungen durchleben. Ihr zehnköpfiges Ensemble zeigt virtuos das Spiel von Liebe, Streit und sozialen Etiketten.
A documentary about refugees outside the Spanish enclave of Melilla, waiting for an opportunity to cross the heavily fortified EU external border – a subject of disturbing urgency!
Milo Rau stages the biblical Passion story as a message for the 21st century: a manifesto of solidarity with the poorest and a cinematic uprising for a fairer, more humane world.
The relationship between body and material, and the dialogue between object, performer and space, are at the heart of this workshop. Combining contemporary dance, physical theatre and circus with scenography and installation, it explores the intersection of choreography, objects and performance.
Based on Manuel Roque’s choreographic practice, this masterclass explores improvisation, movement qualities, attention, and shared physicality.
Two masterclasses introduce participants to Spicey’s artistic approach. Rooted in Hip Hop dance and culture, they explore new ways of engaging with movement, music, and her powerful choreographic language.
We invite you to an exchange about the interdisciplinary dance performance NKUL NNAM with the performer Athena Lucie Assamba and students from the Institute of Theatre Studies at Leipzig University.
Who is free to move around the world – and who is not? Sinthujan Varatharajah examines tourism, borders and privilege, drawing attention to the unequal distribution of freedom of movement and the continuing legacies of colonialism.
International artists share works in progress and offer insights into the development of their next pieces. Over lunch at Remiversum, the focus is on artistic processes, research methods and collaborative practices.
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.
