“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

Company Benjamin Richter

“RAPT” (Work-In-Progress Showing)

Sunday 02.11.2025, 17:00 hrs

 

 

RAPT begins with our problematic relationship to the word “more”, which has brought humanity both knowledge and self-destruction, where it now teeters between ecstatic pleasure and absolute catastrophe. In a world made of paper, performer Benjamin Richter develops a choreographic journey of juggling, dance and clowning that subtly expresses the restless desire for “more”. The paper comes into its own in all its materiality: it flies, falls, piles up again, is draped and juggled. Accompanied by a live sound collage, “RAPT” is not a linear narrative, but a web of encounters: Human and object, abundance and care, fragility and perseverance.

A work-in-progress excerpt will be shown in BARNES CROSSING, the premiere of the entire piece will follow in January 2025 at the Orangerie Theater Cologne.

RAPT is funded by: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste and Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

 

Concept, choreography & performance: Benjamin Richter

Concept & dramaturgy: Jenny Patschovsky

Lighting design: Garlef Keßler

Sound design: Maxi Estudies

Graphics: Dominikus Moos

Benjamin Richter

The juggler and dancer Benjamin Richter has been exploring the interfaces between circus, dance and objects for 35 years. With his unmistakable playful language, he has shown his work worldwide and collaborated with Gandini Juggling and Cirkus Cirkör, among others.

 

Jenny Patschovsky

Jenny Patschovsky has been shaping contemporary circus in Germany for over 20 years – as a producer, dramaturge, networker and aerial artist, including on the board of the Bundesverband Zeitgenössischer Zirkus, at the Cologne-based association Atemzug, Labor Cirque and at the Bauhaus Dessau.

Garlef Keßler

Garlef Keßler works as a lighting designer and technical director for mouvoir, Overhead Project and Un-Label, among others. He has been the technical director of LATIBUL Cologne since 2011 and accompanies numerous independent dance and theater productions.

Maxi Estudies

Maximiliano Estudies is a sound designer between music and technology. Based in Cologne since 2010, he works for contemporary music festivals such as Acht Brücken, for WDR, the Cologne University of Music and Dance and is a member of the electronicID ensemble.

Dominikus Moss

Dominikus Moss is an artist, designer & editor of tadaa magazine and project & process manager of CCCC e.V. Cologne.

DIN A13

“MYspace SAFEspace NOspace 2025″ – Part 2

 

26.09.2025, 20:00 Premiere

27.09.2025, 20:00 hrs

28.09.2025, 19:00 hrs

Premiere 2025 – Part 2 of the two-part production

“Safe Space” – a valuable protected space, an intimate bubble, a safe cosmos within the so-called “normative world”. Who shapes this space, who is allowed to use it, who is left out? DIN A 13 tanzcompany explores these questions with the two-part production “MYspace SAFEspace NOspace” – bringing performers with physical disabilities on stage with artists from the ballroom community (LGBTQ+).

Part 1 of the overall concept was realized in 2024 as an artistic intervention in public space: A mobile “Safe Space” container was positioned in various districts of Cologne. Dancers sought a performative exchange with passers-by and local residents. They reacted in very different ways: curious, irritated, hostile and even aggressive. These encounters gave rise to new choreographic impulses, which will now be explored in greater depth in part 2, the stage version.

Part 2 premieres in September 2025 and develops the performative experiences from the public space further – now within a changeable, non-classical stage space that is in constant motion.

Three protagonists personally invite the audience to become part of these spaces – or separate them from the close-up insights they have just gained. The production questions the concepts of closeness and distance, privacy and publicity – and shows how fragile and permeable the boundaries of “safe spaces” can be.

Encounter and demarcation, intimacy and irritation alternate. The dynamic between the performers and the audience creates a dense, immersive experience that is constantly being reconstituted. An interplay of exclusive inclusions and the exclusions that accompany them.

Participants:
Artistic direction & choreography: Gerda König (D)
Co-choreography: Charlotte Virgile (F)
Dramaturgy: Marje Hirvonen (FIN)
Performance: Danjel Sesar (D), David Mendez (D), Sophia Hankings-Evans (D)
Stage design: Lea Dietrich (D)
Costume: Monika Odenthal (D)
Music: Frank Schulte (D)
Film documentation: Gerhard Schick (D)
Lighting design: Marco Wehrspann (D)
Homepage: Andrea Hoffmann (D)
Press and public relations: Neurohr & Andrä (D)
Social media and financial management: John Herman (D)
Creative Producer: Anastasia Olfert (D)

Supported by:
Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Kunststiftung NRW, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Kämpgen-Stiftung.
DIN A 13 tanzcompany receives top-level funding from the state of NRW.

About DIN A 13 tanzcompany
DIN A 13 tanzcompany is one of the few dance ensembles internationally whose members are made up of dancers with and without physical disabilities. Since 1995, DIN A 13 tanzcompany and its artistic director and choreographer Gerda König, in artistic collaboration with choreographer Gitta Roser from 1999 to 2020, have been enriching the dance world with new aesthetic categories that continually challenge and question the usual ways of seeing contemporary dance. Presumed boundaries and evaluations between physical characteristics and top dance performance are dissolved in choreographic images that provocatively pose questions and invite artistic dialog.
The focus of the artistic work is on the exploration and visualization of the movement quality of “other bodies”, which is used in its diversity for the choreographic work, expanding it and thereby enriching the spectrum of contemporary dance.
www.din-a13.de/en

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https://www.lost-paradise.eu

Kristóf Szabó F.A.C.E. Visual Performing Arts & Guests

“LOST PARADISE”

 

 August 2nd, 2025 – 8:00 p.m.
LOST PARADISE 1 + 2 EVA (BE)WERTWN + ADAM
St. Gertrud Kirche Köln

August 3rd, 2025 – 8:00 p.m.:
LOST PARADISE 1+2 – EVA (BE)WERTEN + ADAM
St. Gertrud Kirche Köln

LOST PARADISE is a haunting dance performance directed by Kristóf Szabó and produced by club68köln – the association for disabled and non-disabled people.

Through a combination of dance, theater, radio play, photography, and video art, a multi-layered production unfolds, transforming the space into a vibrant playground of human experience. An impressive stage design and moving video projections lend the performance visual depth and transform the venue into a resonance chamber for memory, resistance, and empathy.

At the center is one of the most fundamental questions of our time:

When is a person a person—and what happens when categories determine value and dignity?

Article 1 of the German Basic Law states: “Human dignity shall be inviolable.”

But what remains of this promise when it cracks in everyday life?

LOST PARADISE is a poetic, haunting appeal against exclusion and pressure to conform. The performance explores the fault lines of our society—between ideal and reality, between inclusion and economic utility. It creates a space for encounter and transformation—an artistic plea for a humanity beyond norms and performance metrics.

The project is complemented by an interactive digital chat platform, Paradise Regained, where visitors can share their experiences of exclusion, judgment, and inclusion—live on site.

Note Performances will be broadcast live on YouTube by the organizer. By purchasing a ticket, you agree to be filmed live and made public on YouTube.

 

 

TICKETS:

via rausgegangen.de and at the box office

 

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

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.

 

Announcement of winners

 

For the seventeenth time, BARNES CROSSING (Freiraum für TanzPerformanceKunst) organized 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 jury Roos van Berkel, NL, Silvia Ehnis MX/D, Reut Shemesh ISR /D awarded the following prizes at the award ceremony on
May 15, 15:00h (see below for laudations):

Jury Prize:

Outstanding Solo: “MISS TAKES” by Naomi Kats (ISR)
Outstanding Duo: ‘M I Я’ by Darja Reznikova, Sade Mamedova, Maiia Selezneva, Gleb Bondarev (D)
Award-winning solo newcomer: ‘Johnny sieht von oben, ein Viertel’ by Teresa Curotti (D)
Outstanding Duo Newcomer: “Aporetico”, Francesca Sacchi, Giorgia Enrico (D)
Outstanding actress: “NUMBER 52”, Katharina Ludwig (CH)

 

The audience has voted for the following audience prizes:

Friday, May 23, 2025:

Duo: Sound of(f)… Movement, Opus 3, choreography/dance: Dagmar Ottmann, Christian Herrmann (D)
Solo: skin and shell, choreography/dance: Leonie Stöckle (D)

Saturday, May 25, 2025:

Solo: ISO. going to let, choreography/dance: Aleksandra Krutikova (D)
Duo: Sensilla, choreography/dance: Cristiana Casadio, Emmanouela Dolianiti (D)

 

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 cooperation that has existed for 16 years and the associated participation/invitation of the winners to the Budapest SzólóDúo Fesztivál cannot take place this year, as the Budapest festival can no longer take place due to the cancellation of funding in Hungary.

 

 

Press photos:

Press photos can be used free of charge if the photographer’s credit is mentioned (in the file name) under the following link:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0cdeww5bp7oo2hg5nv0gi/ALuMVR8yIKUTLnQ6fjDL-Tg?rlkey=25xlshbo0uxfc22v8k9l0100r&dl=0

Laudations Jury decision:

• Awarded Solo: ‘MISS TAKES’ by Naomi Kats (ISR)

In “MISS TAKES”, anger emerged with striking subtlety — a delicate interplay between control and fragility, toughness and softness. Naomi Kats crafted a fine understanding of timing, allowing images to accumulate slowly, like a growing shadow in the room, building tension with remarkable patience and abstraction. She created a solo that felt alive, danced, and shaped in the very moment of its becoming.

Naomi Kats is an Israeli choreographer and performer, trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance High School and the ‘Maslool’ professional dance program. Since 2019, she has performed with various companies and choreographers in Israel and internationally, including Lotem Regev, Rachel Erdos, Ido Gidron, Yaniv Cohen, ‘Ildance’ (SE), ‘MAZE’ (GER), ‘SUB.LAB.PRO’ (HU), and the Israeli Opera. Naomi’s choreographic work includes participation in the Suzanne Dellal Centre’s platform ‘1|2|3 for Emerging Choreographers.’ Her first trio piece, Don’t Run with Scissors, premiered at ‘THE BUNCH’ festival (IT) in 2023

 

• Awarded Duo: ‘M I Я’ by Darja Reznikova, Sade Mamedova, Maiia Selezneva, Gleb Bondarev (D) *

As they poignantly wrote: “This project reflects a global issue on our social lives, our everyday encounter with ourselves and others.”

The jury is deeply moved by their ability to address the subject of war and conflict in an ambiguous and complex way, as a self-reflection. You approached the theme by courageously examining your biographies and upbringings. With a distinct movement language and a bold, punk-inspired approach to choreographic structure, you brought forth a story about yourselves — about the “ordinary people”, about the places you were born and grow up at, caught in the heart of a storm that has been forced upon you, touched your personal lives and by doing so, also ours.

* M | Я (pronounced ‘MIR’) is Russian and stands for both ‘peace’ and ‘world’. The mirror-inverted R forms the last letter of the Cyrillic alphabet and means ‘I’.

Darja is a Ukrainian born choreographer, dance teacher and researcher in the field of interdisciplinarity. Her company SoBo Productions works in the context of Darja’s ongoing (published) research into inter- and transdisciplinarity and is in line with her SoundBody (SoBo) theory, which explores integrative voice and movement work based on the science of sound and vibration.

Sade Mamedova is a Russian born performer, choreographer and teacher based in Mannheim. She has been working as a freelancer since 2018 and has been recognised for her dance and choreography at renowned competitions and festivals around the world, including the International Choreography Competition in Copenhagen, the ICC. 

Maya is a dancer, choreographer and teacher in the field of contemporary dance. movement and performing arts. She graduated from Vaganova Academyn (St. Petersburg) with an MA in Choreography and has a medical degree in Psychiatry from Northern State Medical University. She studies at the NOD/ICD, the International Research Programme and the Arkhangelsk University of Arts.As a freelance dancer, she has worked with choreographers and companies such as Hea Min Jung, Alina Belyagina, James Finnemore, Naprimer Dance Company. Li Nekrasova, Tomislav English, Mualem/De Phillips Project and Third Rail Project. 

Gleb Bondarev is an artist whose main instruments are dance and video. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Romance and German Studies in Krasnodar, Russia, 2018-2023 he was part of the contemporary dance company ” Zhest. 2020-2023 he was part of the art community* Street Physics . Gleb is experienced in urhan and contemnoran dance and videography. 

 

• Awarded Solo Newcomer: Johnny sees from Above, A fourth” by Teresa Curotti

In “ Johnny sees from Above, A fourth”, Teresa Curotti connected to the frenetic pulse of today. The performance reflected back to us a familiar state—a sensation of perpetually hovering between the current moment and whatever comes next. The solo dared to be unfiltered and skillfully incomplete, contained yet deeply expansive. The jury sees a promise of a distinctive choreographic vocabulary emerging within the paradox of anticipated physicality while remaining honest and attentive to the moment.

Teresa Curotti is an Italian choreographer and dancer. She is currently studying for an MA in Choreography at Folkwang Universität der Künste and previously completed a BA in Dance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. Her work has been recognized at festivals such as Internationale Tanztheater Festival Erfurt, SOLOCOREOGRAFICO Frankfurt, TanzGala Baden-Württemberg and the Solo Dance Contest in Gdańsk, where she received awards and finalist placements.  

• Awarded Duo Newcomer: “Aporetico”, Francesca Sacchi, Giorgia Enrico

“Aporetico” meticulously weaves space with bodies through unpredictable yet precise choreographic patterns. The duo offers invitations into their universe —through uniform-like costumes, an intimate moment under the lamp, a repeating motif with a scarf, with hands, and between the bodies. The duo emerged from a profound connection to the body, combining it with fresh compositional and cinematic curiosity.

Francesca Sacchi, born in Turin, Italy, 31.03.99, performed for Chris Jaeger in Daddy Shot My Rabbit and toured in Germany, and also danced in the film Rotes Sterne Überm Felde by Laura Laabs.year-long internship with Dart Dance Company, and holds a diploma from Opus Ballet Company,International Choreographic Center, where she also interned. Currently, guest teacher at Motion Berlin and DartDSP, specializing in creation and improvisation tools.Her daily routine includes Counter Technique, ballet, urban dance, floorwork, and improvisation. Giorgia Enrico,born in Turin, Italy, 26.03.02. Former member of Deutsche Tanzkompanie Neustrelitz where she choreographed and taught and still guest. Member of FlyingStepsCompany Berlin. Guest at CottbusTheater. Ballet and contemporary teacher at FlyingStepsAcademy. Former ballet dancer graduated from Victor Ullate and Fortea Conservatory Madrid. Her current focuse practices are contemporary,urban and martial arts. 

 

• Awarded Performer: “NUMBER 52”, Katharina Ludwig

Katharina Ludwig shows great versatility as a dancer and performer. She combines different dance styles ranging from ballet to breaking, displays great qualities as a stand-up comedian and handles text well. The jury applauds her ability to deliver a strong critique towards the dance field as an industry while keeping the performance light-hearted and witty.

Katharina Ludwgi received her training at the Iwanson School of Contemporary Dance in Munich and obtained her Master’s Degree in Movement Research from the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. Based in Bern, she currently works as a freelance artist in Switzerland and internationally. Katharina has danced in engagements with Joshua Monten, Wim Vandekeybus, Simone Elliot, Emese Nagy, Sade Mamedova, Emi Miyoshi, Nunzio Impellizeri and Karolin Stächele. As a choreographer, Katharina created several short pieces which have been performed internationally. She is currently working on realizing her first evening-length production in collaboration with TANZhAUS Bern. 

Team:
Artistic direction:	Ilona Pászthy, Gerda König
Festival Assitance:	Joanna Park, Even Wainscoat
Selection panel:	Diana Treder, Ilona Pászthy
Graphics:	miegL
Jury:	Roos van Berkel, NL | Silvia Ehnis MX/D | Reut Shemesh ISR/D
Technology:	Garlef Keßler
sound engineering assistance:	Simeon Kuhn
Press and public relations	Mechtild Tellmann
Workshop management:	Jana Griess /  Nina Patricia Hänel
Photo/video documentary:	Alessandro de Matteis

 

Accessibility:

Audio description: Lena Visser

Accessibility assistance: Emily Lenau

Visual communication: Alessandro de Matteis

PR/Accessibility: Mechtild Tellmann

Sign language consulting: Tom Liesenhoff

 

Organizer

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

 

Cooperations-Partner Quartier am Hafen

Funded by: Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, KunstSalon Stiftung

 

Contact for press inquiries:

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