Jovana Petrovska “Wording a common skirt”

Jovana Petrovska “Wording a common skirt”

by | Apr 7, 2026 | current events, English

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.com – READ 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.

Copyright: Viola Cantú

James Wilton Dance Intensive

James Wilton Dance Intensive

by | May 21, 2026 | current events, English

James Wilton Dance Intensive

Join JWD artistic directors James Wilton and Sarah Jane Taylor for this two day research intensive in Cologne.
 
20+21 June 2026
 
12.00-18.00 each day
 
 
 
Info & registration:
 
Join James Wilton Dance for this professional level research intensive towards our new full evening group work LOKI for touring in 2027. The intensive will be led by artistic directors James Wilton and Sarah Jane Taylor.
 

Cost: £300

Early bird discount (book before 20/05): £250

 

 
What you will learn:
 
Each day begins with a technique class learning our floorwork technique. Learn to move with athleticism and power whilst retaining a sense of expansiveness, breath and quality. You will upskill with new tricks and flips, but more importantly you’ll learn how to integrate these seamlessly into choreography.
 
After this you’ll learn a new phrase from our 2027 work LOKI. Tribal, primordial and energetic, the phrase will tap into our ancestral bodies, leading you to be part animal, part human and part Norse god.
 
The afternoon concludes with duet based research. Working with a partner you’ll learn our martial arts inspired contact work that focuses on remaining strong yet mobile, fluid but powerful.
 
We will be auditioning for LOKI Autumn 2026.
 
Booking link:
RUA / Bianca Mendonça “GORJEIO”

RUA / Bianca Mendonça “GORJEIO”

by | May 21, 2026 | current events, English

RUA / Bianca Mendonça

“GORJEIO”

Off-site: Maternusplatz, Rodenkirchen

Saturday 4 July 2026, 4.00 pm

An event as part of the Barnes Crossing anniversary year 2026

The green parrots have long since become part of Cologne’s skyline. Once blown here from the south, they have made a new home for themselves amidst the concrete and treetops. Their calls mingle with the city’s noise, their colours shine above rooftops and streets; their presence is a symbol of disruption and the exoticisation of the foreign body.

This tension gave rise to the dance production GORJEIO (Portuguese: birdsong). The performance invites the audience to a special open day – an ‘integration initiative’ in which we humans are allowed to learn from the parrots what it means to become part of a new community.

The international ensemble takes the piece to the streets and, together with the green parrots, opens up a space for personal experiences of migration, belonging and being a stranger. With humour and the telling of personal stories, this dance piece explores what happens during the integration process – from humans to parrots and from one culture to another.

Choreography: Bianca Mendonça in collaboration with Indu Das, Renato Sbardelotto & Marouf Alhassan // Music: Vito Oliveira Azevedo // Education & Dramaturgy: Gabs Carneiro // Costumes: Margareta Bartelmess // Production Management: Bianca Mendonça and Gabs Carneiro // Photo Documentation: Alessandro De Matteis // Production Assistant: Ayrbek Esen

GORJEIO is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the NRW State Office for the Independent Performing Arts and the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne. It is supported by Barnes Crossing, Kulturbunker Köln-Mühlheim and KAPIWARA e.V.

IPtanz – open rehearsal: absence#7: reconstruction of memories (AT)

IPtanz – open rehearsal: absence#7: reconstruction of memories (AT)

by | May 21, 2026 | current events, English

IPtanz

Open rehearsal: absence#7: reconstruction of memories (working title)

 

Saturday 25 July 2026, 3.30 pm

An event as part of the Barnes Crossing anniversary year 2026

Memory is not an archive, but a movement of images, feelings and traces. How does memory manifest itself in the body beyond the visual? A diverse ensemble of sighted, blind and visually impaired performers explores truth, perception and transformation. absence#7 conceives of memory as a living process. The open rehearsal at the end of the first rehearsal process invites you to encounter this fragile fabric and engage in conversation. Premiere as part of the Festival Tanz NRW 2027.