S. Rudat und A. „Greco“ Anastasiadis: „screaming starfish“ SHOWING

S. Rudat und A. „Greco“ Anastasiadis: „screaming starfish“ SHOWING

by | Apr 30, 2025 | current events, English

S. Rudat und A. „Greco“ Anastasiadis

“screaming starfish” – Showing

 

May 9th 2025, 7:30 p.m.

 

A physical theater research that examines bodies and voices for their extremes, their capacity for contact, for joy, for excess, for listening and trust. An exploration of how impulses flow together in the body and voice and how what concerns us makes its way through them. A poetic-physical treatise on what happens in the world, who we are in it and what we want. Two animals that are human.

Admission: free

WOLKENSTEIN Theater “PARTI! bei Eule und Waschbär”

WOLKENSTEIN Theater “PARTI! bei Eule und Waschbär”

by | Apr 30, 2025 | current events, English

WOLKENSTEIN Theater “PARTI! bei Eule und Waschbär”

Theater with music
for children from 4 years

May 18th 2025, 03:00 p.m.

Info and reservation: 0163 – 9719837 or post@wolkenstein-theater.de

 

Most of the time, Willi the raccoon and Laila the owl are very comfortable in their forest home, and they have been good friends for a long time.
And yet there’s always something to decide all day long: who gets to play the drum, that’s my apple, where are the wellies again, stop strumming, is there lunch now, you don’t know what you want anyway, but you already had the little guitar yesterday and you always know everything better…
Laila and Willi find joy in their own voices and self-determination between not-right-at-all and right-at-all. And, of course, they find out how to make decisions together.

Summarized in adult language:
Owl and Raccoon play around the children’s right to participation and use lots of music and humor to educate daycare children about democracy.

Supported by NRW Landesbüro FDK, NRW Ministry of Culture, Cologne Cultural Office and the Victor Rolff Foundation.

CielEtTerre “ENSEMBLE – Zusammen eine Kraft”

CielEtTerre “ENSEMBLE – Zusammen eine Kraft”

by | Apr 30, 2025 | archive, English

CielEtTerre

“ENSEMBLE – Zusammen eine Kraft”

April 11th 2025, 6:30 p.m.

The youth ensemble CielEtTerre under the direction of Charline von Fragstein is a guest at Barnes Crossing.

In the piece “ENSEMBLE – Together a Force”, profound themes are brought to the stage through contemporary choreography and improvisation. With a mixture of dance and expression, CielEtTerre tells stories about loneliness, insecurity and self-doubt – but also about empowerment: “We are often held back by our fears and worries because we think we have to carry them alone. In our play, we show the way to solidarity. We want to encourage people not to hide their personality despite social pressure and to express their feelings freely.”

The CielEtTerre ensemble stands for strength, self-confidence and cohesion. “In our training and pieces, we deal with everyday challenges and currently relevant topics. We use dance to process our experiences and impressions and to support and inspire each other. We dance with our hearts and play with emotions to let go of our worries and problems and feel free.”

 

17. SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends

17. SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends

by | Apr 30, 2025 | current events, English, SoloDuo (en)

17th SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends International Dance Festival
Barnes Crossing May 23rd to 25th, 2025

 

 

SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends

 

Since 2009, the SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends has been an annual international dance festival dedicated to the presentation of contemporary dance productions – with a special focus on emerging artists. The festival offers a unique platform for up-and-coming choreographers, promotes artistic exchange between international participants as well as between participants and professional dance makers and creates career opportunities.

Each year, the festival presents 8 – 10 contemporary solo choreographies with a maximum length of 6 minutes and duo choreographies with a maximum length of 9 minutes. We welcome international applications, especially mixed-abled productions. Two duos and three solos will be selected from the programme by the international jury to either take part in international festivals organized by cooperation partner organizations or to benefit from a residency of several weeks in the “Quartier am Hafen”.

 

Artistic direction 2025:

Ilona Pászthy & Gerda König / Curation of the program 2025: Diana Treder / Ilona Pászthy

 

Participating artists benefit from:

a professional stage to present their dance pieces
Visibility in front of an international audience and an expert jury
Support with travel and accommodation costs as well as per diems
high-quality video and photo documentation of their dance pieces
a supporting program for artistic exchange and free workshops on contemporary technique and theory

 

Structure and promotion of the festival

Despite its international orientation, the SoloDuoFestival is the smallest festival format in Cologne. It is supported by the City of Cologne as part of its conceptual funding and by the Kunstsalon Foundation. This funding makes it possible to provide residencies in the Quartier am Hafen and to cover the travel and accommodation costs for the productions selected by the jury.

This year we received 78 applications from over 11 countries, from which 20 productions were invited to participate.

The festival has been held at Barnes Crossing since its inception, but the venue is always sold out and only seats 80. We would therefore like to open up the festival to other venues in Cologne in the future – for example Depot – in order to achieve a wider reach and reach more audiences.

Program

 

For the seventeenth time, BARNES CROSSING (Freiraum für TanzPerformanceKunst) is organizing the international dance festival SoloDuo nrw + friends in Cologne from 23-25 May 2025 in cooperation with the KunstSalonStiftung and the Quartier am Hafen.

The festival supports internationally networked work and at the same time promotes professional exchange between the participating dance artists. Solo choreographies with a maximum length of 6 minutes and duo choreographies with a maximum length of 9 minutes are shown.

A total of 20 solos and duos from Germany (Ratingen, Essen, Mannheim, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Freiburg, Starnberg, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Aichwald, Wiesbaden), Spain, Israel, France and Switzerland were selected from over 70 worldwide applications.

 

The performances will take place on: Fri. May 23, Sat. May 24, 2025, each at 8:00 p.m.

Once again this year, the audience is invited to actively participate in the voting for the Audience Award Solo and Audience Award Duo.

 

Award ceremony, Sun., 2025, 3:00 pm

 

The following prizes will be awarded:

Audience prizes:

Audience Award Solo
Audience Award Duo

Jury prizes (Jury: Roos van Berkel, NL | Silvia Ehnis, MX/D | tba.):

  • awarded Solo
  • awarded Duo
  • awarded Solo newcomer
  • awarded Duo newcomer
  • awarded dancer

The jury prizes include a residency invitation in the studios of the Quartier am Hafen for all prize winners and the prize money is used to cover the costs of travel and accommodation.

 

 

The participants

 

Programm Freitag Solo/Duo  
1 pump and run. S Lili Oksanen / Ratingen
2 as far as you go D Aleksandra Krutikova, Johannes Walter / Essen
3 Merci Lou S Leda WASSONG / Essen
4 M I Я D Darja Reznikova, Sade Mamedova, SoBo Productions // Maiia Selezneva, Gleb Bondarev / Mannheim
5 FRIEND WITH THE MOUNTAIN S Eva Georgitsopoulou /Berlin
  PAUSE    
6 TWINE D Ella Olivia Bender Semerci, Mahshad Rezai / Berlin
7 Schlüsselkind S Celine Celeesi (Fortenbacher) / Hamburg
8 Sound of(f)… Movement, Opus 3 D Dagmar Ottmann / Christian Herrmann / Freiburg
9 skin and shell S Leonie Stöckle / Starnberg
10 Aporetico D Francesca Sacchi, Giorgia Enrico / Berlin
       
Programm Samstag Solo/Duo  
1 selcouth D Martina Martín, Sade Mamedova/Spanien
2 ISO.going to let S Aleksandra Krutikova/Essen
3 SHATTER D Ch: Brian Scalini / T: Camilla Bizzi, Chiara Rontini / Gelsenkirchen
4 Johnny sees from Above, A fourth S Teresa Curotti / Essen
5 you and me D T: Karoly Toth, Anna Süheyla Harms/ Ch:Grégory Darcy ///Aichwald Esslingen
  PAUSE    
6 MISS TAKES S Naomi Kats / Israel
7 Sensilia D Cristiana Casadio & Emmanouela Dolianiti/Berlin
8 Il pleut, il plaint, il rage S Charles Brecard / Frankreich
9 When we collide D Alessio Damiani, Enzo Boffa / Wiesbaden
10 Number 52 S Katharina Ludwig / Bern/Schweiz


Practical information / Dates

 

Competition performances:

  • Friday, May 23, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, May 24, 2025, 8:00 p.m.

Award ceremony:

  • Sunday, May 25, 2025, 3:00 p.m.

 

Open Talks / Workshops

Feedback discussions with the jury and the festival artists

– in good weather outside in Ringo’s Café / in case of rain in Studio 2

  • Saturday, May 24, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
    with the artists of the Friday performances
  • Sunday, May 25, 12:15 pm -02:15 p.m.
    with the artists of the Saturday performances

 Open workshops for professional dancers

  • Saturday, May 24, 2025, 1:30 p.m. – 02.30 p.m.
    conversations by Judith Ayuso Pereira
    Language: English
  • Sunday, May 25, 2025, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
    multidimensional spaces and layers by and with Nina Patricia Hänel
    Language: English

 

Tickets

  • Entrance fees for each festival day:

19,00 € / reduced 12,00 € / 6,00 € with TanzCard (students of the ZZT)
→ all prices plus advance booking fee
→ limited availability of seats

  • Award ceremony: Admission free

 

Ticket sales via rausgegangen.de: 

 

https://rausgegangen.de/locations/barnes-crossing-freiraum-fur-tanzperformancekunst-im-kunstze/

 

Fr. May 23rd 2025  https://t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/17-soloduo-festival-nrw-friends-internationales-tanzfestival

Sa. May 24th 2025 https://t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/17-soloduo-festival-nrw-friends-internationales-tanzfestival-1

Su. May 25th 2025 https://t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/17-soloduo-festival-nrw-friends-internationales-tanzfestival-2

 

or at the box office (we recommend booking in advance, stating your name, address and telephone number, as only a small number of tickets are available for sale.  Tel.: 02236-963588, barnescrossing@web.de

 

Team:

Artistic direction: Ilona Pászthy, Gerda König

Festivalassistenz: Joanna Park, Even Wainscoat

Selection panel: Diana Treder, Ilona Pászthy

Graphics: miegLJury:Roos van Berkel, NL | Silvia Ehnis MX/D | tba

Technology: Garlef Keßlertontechnische

Assistenz: Annabell Seidlitz, Simeon Kuhn

Press & Public relations: Mechtild TellmannWorkshopleitung:Judith Ayuso Pereira, Nina Patricia Hänel

Photo/video doc.: Alessandro de Matteis

 

 

Organizer


Barnes Crossing | Freiraum für TanzPerformanceKunst im Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik
Industriestraße 170
50999 Köln-Rodenkirchen, Germany

Cooperation partner: Quartier am Hafen, Köln

Supported by: Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, KunstSalon Stiftung

 

Contact for press inquiries:

Mechtild Tellmann kultur@mechtild-tellmann.de / +49 171 385 7031

16th SoloDuo Festival nrw + friends

16th SoloDuo Festival nrw + friends

by | Apr 27, 2025 | English, SoloDuo (en)

16. SoloDuo Festival nrw + friends
International Dance Festival Cologne  10th-12th May 2024

(Foto: Victor Persson_Bat techno_Copyright José Figueroa)

For the 16th time, BARNES CROSSING organised the international dance festival SoloDuo NRW + friends from 10 to 12 May 2024 in Cologne and once again cooperated with the Budapest SzólóDuó Táncfesztivál and the Almada Dance Company / Almada international Dance Festival.

The jury Roos van Berkel (NL), Bruno Duarte (PT) and Stephanie Thierisch (D) awarded the following prizes at the award ceremony on 12 May at 3 pm:

– Prizewinner Solo – Newcomer: Kezia Jonah / Beloved – “oui ou non”.

– Honoured Solo: Layers of Ash / Choreography: KOMA&KO / Magdalena

– Outstanding Duo – Newcomer: In the Land of Last Things – Chapter 1 Choreography: Elena Cattardico / Dance: Francisco (Paco) Làdron De Guevara, Saskia Astrid Hamala.

– Award-winning duo: Die Bürde des Seins / Choreography and dance: Alessio Damiani + Matthias Vaucher.

– Outstanding dancer: Minsu Kim (Mia Maria)

 

Further information on the prizes and winners

The public voted for the following audience awards

● Friday, 10 May 2024
Duo: Alessio Damiani and Matthias Vaucher “Burdens of Being”
Solo: Minsu Kim “Mia Maria”

● Saturday, 11 May 2024
Duo: Alja Turk Hvala and Beti Polanec “Inevitable impact”
Solo: Victor Persson “Bat techno”

In addition, the KunstSalonStiftung, in collaboration with Quartier am Hafen Köln, awarded four residencies to young artists/ensembles participating in the festival for the first time on the recommendation of the jury. The selection for these residencies was made from the participants who were not selected for an award.

Laudation jury decision:

Outstanding Solo – Newcomer:
Kezia Jonah / Beloved – “oui ou non”

Beloved – “oui ou non” tells a very personal, intimate and courageous story. It is inspired by real problems in a world dominated by men. The choreography shows courageous decisions and leaves the audience with a feeling of discomfort and sadness.

Award-winning solo:
Layers of Ash / Choreography: KOMA&KO / Magdalena Weniger/ Youngwon Song,
Dance: Youngwon Song

“Layers of Ash” uses space and time in a surprising way. It is an idiosyncratic choreography that defies a predictable language of movement. The dancer Youngwon Song embodies the volcanic eruptions very convincingly. The choreography succeeds in translating a natural phenomenon into human behaviour.

Excellent Duo – Newcomer; In the Land of Fewer Things – Chapter 1 Choreography: Elena Cattardico / Dance: Francisco (Paco) Làdron De Guevara, Saskia Astrid Hamala

“In the Land of Fewer Things” shows an innovative and symbolic use of a shopping trolley through a classical aesthetic. It becomes a vessel of imagination and meaning, transforming an everyday object into a rich source of imagination that is explored in all its potential.

Award-winning duo: The Burdens of Being / Choreography and dance: Alessio Damiani + Matthias Vaucher

“Burdens of Being” brings together two extraordinary dancers who unite in a symbiotic relationship of dependence and trust. The distribution of weight and the shifting of roles – the key elements of contact improvisation – are created in a fresh and intelligent way.

Excellent dancer: Minsu Kim (Mia Maria)

Minsu Kim draws on a variety of dance styles in a very convincing way. His stamina and versatility are exceptional.

The jury’s prizes include an invitation to the Budapest SzólóDúo Fesztivál 2025 for all winners, the prize money covers travel and accommodation costs and is awarded by the Kunstsalonstiftung. The winning solo and duo will also receive an invitation to the Almada International Dance Festival 2024 in Portugal. The prize money in the form of travel expenses will also be covered by the Kunstsalonstiftung.

Press photos:
Press photos can be used free of charge under the following link if the photographer is named (in the file name)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4s2a2e8pwv1vjhwbgnvrd/AJUpjvawZqVI-Xz-dyGGOTQ?rlkey=s9jidttv7gdte4y8uib78uykw&dl=0
Team:
Artistic. Direction: Ilona Pászthy, Gerda König
Festival assistance: Lilith Wüller / Joanna Park
Selection jury: Diana Treder, Ilona Pászthy
Graphics: miegL
Jury: Roos van Berkel / NL, Stephanie Thiersch/ Bruno Duarte (PT)
Technology: Garlef Keßlerton
Technical assistance: Annabell Seidlitz
Press & Public Relations: Mechtild Tellmann
Workshop management: Judith Ayuso Pereira, Nina Hänel Photo/Videodoc. Alessandro de Matteis

Organiser:
Barnes Crossing | Freiraum für TanzPerformanceKunst im Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik
Industriestrasse 170
50999 Cologne-Rodenkirchen
www.barnescrossing.de

Co-operation partners Orkesztika Foundation (HU), Almada Dance Company (PT)
Supported by: Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, KunstSalon Foundation

Contact for press enquiries:
Mechtild Tellmann kultur@mechtild-tellmann.de / +49 171 385 7031