Love Eat (never) Sleep

absence#6 – abstraction of memory

a walk-in dance installation by IPtanz

World premiere
4th September 2025 8 pm

further dates

05.09.2025 8 pm

06.09.2025 8 pm

07.09.2025 6 pm

TICKETS

Tickets can be purchased at https://rausgegangen.de or karten@ip-tanz.com – reservation required

A physical somatic introduction will take place 45 minutes before all performances on all dates – pre-registration required.

On September 4 at 7.15 pm and September 7 at 5.15 pm there will be a touch tour and audio description (in German).
Registration required. Phone +49 157 57930117

https://ip-tanz.com

In this walk-in installation, performers and audience share the stage space – a space that is open to anyone who wants to feel memory. A body of air pulsates, movement fragments into voices, skin and stories. What remains when places or rituals disappear, when the body becomes an archive of muscles, breath and scars in the pulse of the space.

The room – sometimes a tent, sometimes a bubble, sometimes a ruin. Look through other eyes, hear forgotten voices, be part of a fictional world that grows, turns, withdraws and not only wants to be seen, but also felt, heard and experienced.

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

IPtanz

“lautLOS 1.6”
June 15th 2025, 06:00 pm

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

In the beginning there is silence. The past loses its clarity, is reinterpreted and becomes a new reality. What significance does the legacy we carry within us from previous generations have—historically, humanly, genetically, psychologically? How do life paths and historical positioning change in the mixing of cultures, and what do blind spots in the past mean in the present?

In their solo works, Silvia Ehnis Pérez Duarte and Ilona Pászthy offer choreographic insights against the backdrop of personal family histories. The result is an atmospheric kaleidoscope in which the audience can determine their own perspective in the space and constantly search for new ones.

The artists will be available for a discussion with the audience after the performance. can determine for themselves and constantly seek anew.

A physical-somatic introduction will take place 45 minutes before the start of the performance.

Choreography Ilona Pászthy, Silvia Ehnis Pérez Duarte

Dance Ilona Pászthy, Silvia Ehnis Pérez Duarte

Scenography/Graphics miegL

Animation Anna Mahendra

Music Zsolt Varga

Narrator Suzanne Zielenbach

Lighting design Mirko Krejči

Tickets €16 / €10 reduced

Ticket reservations: karten@ip-tanz.com or 0157-56403320

Further information at www.ip-tanz.com

Event location changed!

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