Jovana Petrovska “Wording a common skirt”

Jovana Petrovska “Wording a common skirt”

Jovana Petrovska

“Wording a common skirt”

23.05.2026, 20:00 Uhr

This dance piece coincides with the 105th anniversary of the birth of Blaže Koneski. His standardization of the Macedonian language was a state-sanctioned act that, by its very nature, involved a process of selective forgetting. The sound design reflects this evolution: Koneski’s poetry serves as both the language and the raw recorded material, which the commissioned composer deconstructs and fragments. This sonic deconstruction poses a powerful question to the sanctioned linguistic memory: What had to be forgotten for this consensus to be passed?

Concept, Choreographic Direction, and Performance: Jovana Petrovska

Creation and Performance: Elodie Zermatten, Lea Marie Neumayer and Viola Cantú

Music Composition: Thomas Wansing

Stylist: Elizabeta Hristovska

Light Technician: Nick Jonas Kuhoff

Technical Support: Aleksandar Petrovski

Literary Expert: Prof. Dr. Goce Cvetanovski

Poem: “The word” from Blaže Koneski

Dramaturgical Support and voice: Elizabeta Kocoska

Special thanks to Klaudija Petrovska, Pamela Banchetti and Sergio Monferrer

 

Price information: ​Pay what you want tickets (suggested: 6€ / 10€ / 15€)​ are available at the box office (Abendkasse) from 19:00. To make a reservation, please send an email to creation.jvnpetrovska@gmail.comREAD MORE

Eine Person mit langem, geflochtenem Haar steht mit dem Rücken zur Kamera. Sie trägt ein dunkles, langärmliges Oberteil. Beide Arme sind erhoben. Über dem Kopf der Person fliegt ein Vogel mit ausgebreiteten Flügeln. Der Hintergrund ist einfarbig und hell.
18th SoloDuo Festival nrw + friends

18th SoloDuo Festival nrw + friends

18. SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends Internationales Tanzfestival

Barnes Crossing 29. bis 31. Mai 2026

 

Tickets 29.05.2026  https://rausgegangen.de/events/soloduo-festival-new-friends-0/

Tickets 30.05.2026  https://rausgegangen.de/events/soloduo-festival-new-friends-1/

Booking for the awards ceremony on 31 May 2026: https://rausgegangen.de/events/soloduo-festival-nrw-friends-0/

 

SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends

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

Each year, the festival presents 8–10 contemporary solo choreographies with a maximum duration of 6 minutes and duo choreographies with a maximum duration of 9 minutes. We welcome international applications, particularly those for mixed-ability productions. Two duos and three solos are selected from the programme by the international jury to either take part in international festivals organised by partner organisations or to benefit from a residency lasting several weeks at the “Quartier am Hafen”.

From 29 to 31 May 2026, the International SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends will take place for the 18th time. The festival is organised by Barnes Crossing – Freiraum für TanzPerformanceKunst, which has been providing an important platform for contemporary dance and performance for two decades.

This year, too, the festival underlines its international significance: over 150 applications were received from 18 countries, including France, the Netherlands, Brazil, Taiwan, Poland, Italy, Finland, Israel, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Greece, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, the USA, Portugal, England, Sweden and Germany.

 

PROGRAMME for download

Organiser

Barnes Crossing | A space for dance and performance art at the Wachsfabrik Art Centre
Industriestraße 170
50999 Cologne-Rodenkirchen
www.barnescrossing.de
Cooperation partner: Quartier am Hafen, Cologne
Funding: The festival is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Kunstsalon Foundation Cologne.
Further information will follow shortly on the website at: https://barnescrossing.de/soloduo/
Press contact:
Mechtild Tellmann, kultur@mechtild-tellmann.de, +49 171 3857031

Team 

Artistic Directors: Ilona Pászthy, Gerda König
Festival Assistants: Even Wainscoat, Joschka Heed
Selection Jury: Diana Treder, Ilona Pászthy
Graphic Design: miegL
Jury: Vivianne Rodrigues del Britto (NL), Bebé de Soares und Leandro Kees
Technical Support: Garlef Keßler
Sound Engineering Assistant: Simeon Kuhn
PR and Communications: Mechtild Tellmann
Workshop Leaders: Yvonne Hardt, Nina Patrizia Hänel
Photo/Video Documentation: Alessandro de Matteis

The jury for the awards are Dutch artist Vivianne Rodrigues del Britto and Bebé de Soares and Leandro Kees.

In addition to the competition entries, the festival offers a diverse supporting programme that focuses on artistic exchange. Discussion panels between participants and the jury provide opportunities for reflection and networking. The programme is complemented by two workshops: on Saturday, Yvonne Hardt will lead a discussion on current issues in dance policy, and on Sunday, Nina Patrizia Hänel will lead a practical workshop in the field of dance.

 

Awards and grants

The SoloDuoFestival nrw + friends will award the following prizes in 2026:

awarded Solo: €400 and a residency grant at Quartier am Hafen
awarded Duo: €800 and a residency grant at Quartier am Hafen
awarded Newcomer Solo: €400
awarded Newcomer Duo: €800
awarded dancer: €400

In addition, a further residency place will be awarded to a production selected by the jury. All prizes are sponsored by the KunstSalon Stiftung Köln in cooperation with the Quartier am Hafen.

 

Accessibility as a lived commitment

Thanks to renewed funding from the City of Cologne, comprehensive accessibility formats can also be offered in 2026. These include, amongst other things, audio descriptions (upon registration), a pick-up service from the nearest train station, and special services for deaf people. The venue is fully accessible – the festival thus sees itself as an inclusive cultural offering for everyone.

An audio flyer will be available on the website shortly.

 

Anniversary: 20 years of Barnes Crossing

In 2026, Barnes Crossing celebrates its 20th anniversary. The festival is part of this anniversary programme and will mark the occasion with special highlights. Visitors can look forward to additional programme items and surprises, particularly during the awards ceremony.

 

Practical information:
Competition performances:

Friday, 29 May 2026, 8.00 pm
Saturday, 30 May 2026, 8.00 pm

Awards ceremony

Sunday, 31 May 2026, 3.00 pm

 

Tickets
Tickets €19.00 / concessions €12.00 / €6.00 with Tanzcard (ZZT students) per festival day (limited availability), all prices subject to booking fee. Award ceremony: Free admission
Tickets available via rausgegangen.de

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

IPtanz “lautLOS1.6”

IPtanz “lautLOS1.6”

IPtanz

“lautLOS#6”

“lautLOS1.6” – deconstruction of memory

with audio description and accompanying touch tour at 7:15 p.m. (advance registration required!)

Saturday, 6 December 2025, 8:00 p.m.

IPtanz is celebrating its birthday and we would like to celebrate with you.

A small supporting programme offers insights into our work over the past years. After the performances, the artists will be available for discussions.

More at www.ip-tanz.com

We look forward to seeing you.

 

lautLOS1.6 – A multimedia dance installation by IPtanz with two solos by Silvia Ehnis Pérez Duarte and Ilona Pászthy from absence#5 – deconstruction of memory.

Two autobiographically inspired monologues against the disappearance of memory and the power of forgetting. An atmosphere created from documentary material, memories, animations by Anna Mahendra and a stage object by miegL.

Silvia Ehnis Perez Duarte / D / Mexico: Raised in Mexico, Silvia Ehnis has been living in Germany since 2012. Her family from the Stuttgart area emigrated before the First World War, returned briefly during the Weimar Republic, and then settled permanently in Mexico. What traces remain when a life is continued on another continent? “My great-grandfathers emigrated to Mexico a hundred years ago and settled in the German community. The families experienced the Nazi regime only from a distance, and their connection to Germany faded.” Conversations with her family reveal a complex cultural heritage that ties in with Ilona Pászthy’s examination of “perpetrators and followers.”

Ilona Pászthy / D: What invisible traces of the past do I carry within me? How can I trace the memories inscribed in my DNA and their significance for my identity? For years, I have been researching the unexplained areas of my family history, searching for connections between my own experiences and the biographies of my ancestors during the Nazi era. Images from my childhood meet fragmentary information. In my solo performance, I metaphorically approach the blind spots of my memory, questioning identity, conformity, perpetration, origin and epigenetic traces.

“… Ilona Pászthy has succeeded in creating a production that is as complex as it is densely structured. Narrative and dance combine in an emotional moment of movement…” (Thomas Linden, Kölnische Rundschau, 10 September 2024)

Choreography Ilona Pászthy, Silvia Ehnis

Dance Ilona Pászthy, Silvia Ehnes

Stage miegL

Video animation Anna Mahendra

Music Zsolt Varga

Technic Garlef Keßler, Christoph Wedi

Audio description Uschi Baetz

We would like to thank our sponsors: Ministry of Art and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, NS Documentation Centre Cologne, Cultural Office Siegburg, Cultural Office Krefeld in cooperation with the NS Documentation Centre Krefeld / Villa Merländer.

FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME:

7:15 p.m. – Physical-somatic introduction
7:15 p.m. – Touch tour and audio description (registration required)

ACCESSIBILITY:

Pick-up service for blind and visually impaired people from Michaelshoven railway station, touch tour and audio description (registration required)

Ticket reservations / registration for pick-up, audio description and touch tour:

Tickets: https://rausgegangen.de/events/lautlos-absence5-deconstruction-of-memory-1/

rausgegangen.de

or

karten@ip-tanz.com or 0157 – 57 930 117

more Informationen at www.ip-tanz.com

Dancer in black outfit lying stretched out on the floor of a dark stage
IPtanz | Love Eat (never) Sleep

IPtanz | Love Eat (never) Sleep

IPtanz “Love Eat (never) Sleep”

 

absence#6 – abstraction of memory

with audio description and accompanying touch tour at 7:15 p.m. (advance registration required!)

Friday, 5 December 2025 – 8:00 p.m.

Tickets: https://rausgegangen.de/events/love-eat-never-sleep-absence6-abstraction-of-memory-eine-beg-0/

rausgegangen.de

 

It’s IPtanz’s birthday, and we want to celebrate with you.

A small supporting programme offers insights into our work over the past years. After the performances, the artists will be available for discussions.

More at www.ip-tanz.com

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

Love Eat (never) Sleep

A walk-in dance installation about memory, identity and collective memory.

An immersive experience: dance meets walk-in installation, performers and audience share the stage in a transformable, pneumatic landscape through which the audience moves freely – including a change of perspective.

An air body pulsates, movement splinters into voices, skin and stories. What remains when places and rituals disappear, when the body becomes an archive – made of muscles, breath and scars in the pulse of the space? The space – sometimes a tent, sometimes a bubble, sometimes a ruin. See through different eyes, hear forgotten voices, be part of a fictional world that grows, turns, withdraws and wants to be not only seen, but felt, heard and experienced.

Four dancers use a pneumatic stage set (miegL) to create a fantasy of a new present that is already past. The body as archive, ritual and the dissolution of security in a group context are central themes. Interviews with different generations and backgrounds are incorporated.

“Ilona Pászthy and her ensemble IPtanz have succeeded in creating a fine production that courageously engages with the complexity of memory…” (Kölnische Rundschau / Thomas Linden / 09.09.2025)

Choreography Ilona Pászthy

Play development Ilona Pászthy in collaboration with the team

Dance Miriam Arnold, Gleb Bondarev, Tom Diener, Mira Plikat

Stage miegL

Music Zsolt Varga

Lighting Garlef Keßler

Audio description Uschi Baetz

We would like to thank our sponsors Ministry of Art and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, RheinEnergie Foundation for Culture, Stadtrevue, Kulturservice Köln

SUPPORTING PROGRAMME:
7:15 p.m. – physical-somatic introduction
7:15 p.m. – touch tour and audio description (registration required)

ACCESSIBILITY:
Pick-up service for blind and visually impaired people from Michaelshoven train station, touch tour and audio description (registration required)

Ticket reservations / registration for pick-up, audio description and touch tour:

karten@ip-tanz.com or 0157 – 57 930 117

Further information at www.ip-tanz.com

DOUBLE BILL  SONDER:SAMMLUNG:5 “TO THOSE WHO DON‘T” & SÄCHSISCHE SCHWEIZ kollektiv “LÄRM”

DOUBLE BILL SONDER:SAMMLUNG:5 “TO THOSE WHO DON‘T” & SÄCHSISCHE SCHWEIZ kollektiv “LÄRM”

*DOUBLE BILL*

SÄCHSISCHE SCHWEIZ kollektiv – LÄRM &

SONDER:SAMMLUNG:5 – TO THOSE WHO DON’T

Friday 07.11.2025, 19:30 h

Saturday 08.11.2025, 19:30 h

Tickets: https://rausgegangen.de/events/double-bill-larm-to-those-who-dont-0/

LÄRM
a tragic comedy about the stress of everyday life
or
the loudest romance in the world

Sascha and Ivonne have more than just [bleep]ing feelings for each other. They try to [bleep bleep bleep] their love for each other, but they just don’t get along. [klonk] [beep beep]

Be it cardiovascular disorders, headaches, fatigue, anxiety disorders or burnout. The health consequences of too much stress are well known. According to relationship coach and author Jilian Turecki, the inability to deal with one’s own stress is the main reason why relationships fail and feelings of belonging, connection and ‘being together’ are lost.

The SÄCHSISCHE SCHWEIZ kollektiv explores the connections between the concepts of stress, NOISE and communication in relationships. In the production, NOISE becomes an artistic translation of everyday stressors that massively disrupt communication between the protagonists in a tragic-comic way.

The audience observes Yvonne and Sascha in a kitchen. The two are connected by a deep and long-standing, but so far ‘only’ friendly love. They seem to be in conflict and want to find each other, but they are constantly drowned out by the noises of the world. The NOISE of the washing machine, the kettle, the wooden spoon on the edge of the saucepan, the coffee grinder, the highway in front of the house overlay their words. It seems impossible for Yvonne and Sascha to understand each other, and also impossible for the audience to understand Yvonne and Sascha; at least on a verbal level. After the noises in the apartment have taken on a life of their own in a psychedelic moment of overload, silence finally returns and we hear the (loud) thoughts of the protagonists. They have been secretly in love with each other all these years and are full of doubts. The audience joins in the excitement to see if the two can get together despite all the NOISE.

Concept & play: Ivo Schneider, Saskia Rudat

Stage: Dorothea Mines, Ivo Schneider, Saskia Rudat

Costume: Dorothea Mines

Sound: Kolya Wulf

Light: Jan Widmer

Assistance: Pia Heldmann

VK & Outside Eye: Theresa Hupp

 

SONDER:SAMMLUNG:5
TO THOSE WHO DON’T

A dance theater about the inescapable functioning in the structure on a recomposition of Ravel’s BOLERO.

i call myself a FLOP on a daily basis.

WAIT. [flop]. WINNING. continue. TRYING. [flopflop] keep going. FAILING. just keep going.

WINNING TRYING FAILING. — WAIT [flopflopflopflopflop] … I am a machine.

A performance dedicated to all who never stop, always doing, acting, producing, NO MATTER WHAT. About always being part of the “machine” – the course of things in a society of which we are a part and which determines our function in global turbo-capitalism.

About the impossibility of not being part of the machine. There is no way out, it lives in us, we live in it, we are it. What this machine does to us and how difficult (or utopian?) it is to stop it.

We are so anchored in the gears that stopping, pausing and asking ourselves questions is simply not in the plan. So the questions accompany us unanswered, sit in the back of our heads like dissatisfied rodents and metaphorically chew our ears off while we continue to strive for clean performance.

Skulptur aus zerknittertem Papier, die eine gebückte menschliche Figur darstellt, umgeben von zerfetzten Papierstücken auf dunklem Boden.