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.

Dance theatre for the whole family (for children aged 5 and above)

Saturday, 29 November 2025, 4 p.m.

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 4 p.m.

A poetic play about growing up, transformation and the search for one’s place in the world.

Meet Gargadenia, a curious girl who, like Alice in Wonderland, stumbles into a mysterious and surprising world of nature. Like the flowers around her, she wants to put down roots and find her place. But what does it really take to conquer a strange world?

BLOOOM is a delicate journey full of poetry, fantasy and surprising encounters. The play is about the power of enchantment and the magic of new beginnings. With captivating images and a touch of absurd humour, BLOOOM invites the audience to find themselves on Gargadenia’s journey. It is a play about growing up in uncertain times, balancing on uneven ground and how we can always put down new roots.

An invitation to enter unknown territory with light luggage and discover the wonder of growing up.

Age: 5 to 10 years

Duration: 50 minutes

CREATIVE TEAM

Choreography: Andreas Denk & Eugênia Labuhn

Dramaturgy: Arno Kleinofen

GARGADENIA GARAGENIA: Eugênia Labuhn

Creative production: Bebê de Soares

Photos: Oliver Stroemer

Videos: Jack Sticka

Production: Teatro 4Garoupas

“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, Diana Treder (in Vertretung von Silvia Ehnis)

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/

or

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

more Informationen at www.ip-tanz.com