LOVE EAT (never) SLEEP
IPtanz
In this walk-in dance installation, performers and audience share the space while a pneumatic set pulses between tent, bubble and ruin. Through movement, voices and stories, an immersive experience unfolds that understands the body as an archive – making memory not only visible, but audible, tangible and something you can live through.
A walk-in dance installation about memory, identity and collective perception
An immersive experience. Change of perspective included.
In the walk-in installation “LOVE EAT (never) SLEEP // absence#6 – abstraction of memory”, performers and audience share the stage space. An inflatable body pulses; movement splinters into voices, skin and stories.
What remains when places or rituals disappear, when the body becomes an archive of muscle, breath and scars in the pulse of the space? The space – sometimes a tent, sometimes a bubble, sometimes a ruin. See through other eyes, hear forgotten voices, be part of a fictional world that grows, turns, slips away, and wants not only to be seen but to be touched, heard and experienced.
In an interdisciplinary setting with a pneumatic stage design, four dancers create a fantasy of a new present that is already becoming the past – and thus part of our memory. The body as archive, ritual and the dissolving of security in a group context are central themes. Interviews with people of different backgrounds and generations flow into the work.
A physical-somatic introduction takes place 45 minutes before the performance. Please arrive on time in the Barnes Crossing foyer.
Press excerpt
“[...] What is impressive is the finely measured rhythm of the staging. Through it, the action becomes not only a collective experience for everyone present, but also fulfills a central aim of the project. The doors of perception open over the course of the performance; you become sensitized to the expression of the bodies … Ilona Pászthy and her ensemble IPtanz have achieved a fine production that courageously engages with the complexity of memory ...”
Kölnische Rundschau – Thomas Linden (September 9, 2025)
Tickets
Box office* prices are as follows:
€18.00 | regular |
€10.00 | reduced (e.g. colleague tickets) |
€6.00 | TanzCard holders, Alanus University students |
*Advance sales run via Rausgegangen; additional fees may apply. Remaining tickets are sold at the box office.
Further information on ticketing and booking will be available on the IPtanz website from mid-October.
Team
Choreography: Ilona Pászthy
Production Development: Ilona Pászthy in collaboration with the team
Dance: Miriam Arnold, Gleb Bondarev, Tom Diener, Mira Plikat
Set Design: miegL
Music: Zsolt Varga
Lighting: Garlef Keßler
We thank our funders: Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur