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.

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