TANZHOCHDREI - Festival des zeitgenössischen Tanzes

In the organizer's words:

19-23.03.2025 at Kampnagel
TANZHOCHDREI

Festival of contemporary dance

This year's resident choreographers Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica, Robert Ssempijja and Constantin Trommlitz will be showing their works live at Kampnagel from 19.03. to 23.03.2025. An extensive supporting program ensures a festival atmosphere

Silver Lining

constantin trommlitz

What happens when you stop and it doesn't stop? Physical pain makes everything turn upside down and day and night lose their rhythm. Silver Lining transforms this feeling of pain into an exploration of the body - its peculiarities, limitations and abilities. Four dancers move through and with pain, turning it into an engine for self-realization. By combining different styles - breaking, krump and contemporary dance - they express something that cannot be put into words. The result is a moving portrait of four bodies sharing their pain with each other and with the audience, while offering each other support.

19.03., 19:30 / 21.03., 19:00, followed by an audience discussion / 22.03., 19:30
Venue: P1 / 15,- Euro, 9,- Euro concessions

alienation iii

robert ssempijja

Kampala has over 4.4 million inhabitants and is the economic center of Uganda. Under British colonial rule, the German urban planner Ernst May was commissioned to design the city in 1945. Against the backdrop of racial segregation, he was inspired by the garden city. Alienation III questions the colonial foundations that characterize Kampala's architecture, their impact on the present and the alienation of the inhabitants from their city. How can cities and people grow if the foundations were never created for them? Alienation III takes the audience on a journey of self-discovery and questions the concept of home and belonging.

20.03., 7 pm / 22.03., 6 pm, followed by an audience discussion / 23.03., 6 pm, with childcare Kids-Klub (see below)
Venue: K4 / 15,- Euro, 9,- Euro concessions

la vacabose

maria mercedes flores mujica

La Vacabose is the moment when the party ends in intoxication. Between ecstasy, excess, drunkenness and slowness, the performers go through different states of being. They create a space to celebrate, to retreat, to unfold and to transform, once and again and again. In the process, the sound of the Venezuelan folk dance Joropo allows landscapes of the savannah and their inhabitants to emerge and transform them into street festivals where people, cows and demons dance with goddesses. Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica breaks with the traditional gender-specific couple dance to celebrate and heal the feminine. Inspired by Venezuelan folk festivals, healing rituals and Egyptian mythology, the choreography becomes a form of resistance against the patriarchal system.

20.03., 20:30 / 21.03., 20:30, followed by an audience discussion / 22.03., 21:00,
Venue: K1 / 15,- Euro, 9,- Euro concessions

During the festival: Supporting program with
- Festival bar (on the festival days from 6pm to 10pm),
- Workshop Warm-up (20.-22.03., each at 8 pm, K33, Free admission),
- Kids-Klub (22.03., 5-7 p.m., parents in the performance, children between 4 and 8 years in the free Kids-Klub, registration required at tanzplan2@kampnagel.de),
- Expert panel "Resilient Institutions" (22.03. 4pm, K33 at Kampnagel, Free admission, in English)
- Dinner for all (23.03., 7 pm, K3, Free admission)

Price information:

15,- Euro, 9,- Euro reduced. Supporting program free of charge