Artistic programme
Young Tanzhaus
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premiere
Jugendkompanie tanzhaus nrw (youth company)
Flying High
Guidance and direction Nora Pfahl & Takao Baba The tanzhaus nrw youth company sets out to find happiness. What makes me happy? What keeps me...
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Fully booked
Urban Dance Session
The tanzhaus nrw opens its dance floor to urban dance styles. The Urban Dance Sessions are organized for and from the Urban Community...
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Open Foyer
Dance like nobody's watching
Dancing makes us happy, brings people together and lets us forget about everyday life. On up to two occasions per month, tanzhaus nrw opens...
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German premiere
Public Movement
Emergency Routine
The Emergency Routine performance activates civil alliances as they occur between bodies in moments of peril. Today, in an era of...
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German premiere
Gaya de Medeiros
Atlas da Boca
“I spent my childhood and most of my teenage years very quietly. Countless days reading people and especially their ‘non-words’. A ‘word...
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Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir
When the Bleeding Stops
When the Bleeding Stops addresses the silence, the taboo, that seems to surround menopause in Western societies as well as Lovísa Ósk...
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Young Tanzhaus
Oulouy
BLACK
And still I rise… You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like...
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Nacht der Museen (Night of the Museums) / German Premiere
Saïdo Lehlouh
Témoin
20 urban dancers channel their collective energies in an explosive dance piece by renowned urban choreographer Saïdo Lehlouh. Témoin is part...
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Punctures X tanzhaus nrw
Punctures is a long-term project between art and ecology by three artists, Alfredo Zinola, Micaela Kühn, and Maxwell McCarthy, working in...
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Premiere
Darko Radosavljev
Salaš – a working tale
For dancer and choreographer Darko Radosavljev, growing up in a family of Yugoslav migrants in Germany was punctuated by stories of...
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German premiere
Boys' Club
Boys' Club reflects on the experiences of female-read tap artists throughout history, up to the present day. The play deals with power...
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Short Film (2020)
TRACKS
TRACKs is a short film project by choreographer Daniel Luka and filmmaker Niklas van Bonn. The 20 tap dancers featured in "TRACKS" are...
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Talk
Tap Talk
We invite you to a cross-generational tap talk that focuses on female players in tap dance and deals with the current state of the métier...
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German premiere
Josh Hilberman
Dances and Stories
In this moving retrospective, Josh Hilberman explores his life in tap dancing through the dances (historical repertoire as well as original...
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Tap Ahead Gala
A star-studded line-up of international tap artists unites on the big stage and celebrates the 27th gala as part of the Tap Ahead Festival...
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Estefanía Porqueras
Tap-Lab: A-Cos.o
For seven days, Estefanía Porqueras, this year's Artist in Residence, explores a possible tap dance-based movement language that can be read...
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Premiere
MOUVOIR – École des Sables, Stephanie Thiersch & Alesandra Seutin
Until the Beginnings
To begin again Isn’t to go backwards But to decide to go on. (Amanda Gorman) Beneath the canvas of global rhythms, Until the Beginnings...
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Young Tanzhaus
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Premiere
tanzfuchs PRODUKTION
FOXX
A dance parable for a young audience from the ages of 5 and up Foxes have many faces: they are cute and cunning predators, simultaneously...
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German premiere
Mamela Nyamza
HATCHED ENSEMBLE
HATCHED ENSEMBLE is a poetic and emotionally intense piece: it works with diverse musical movement material from classical Western dance...
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Open Foyer
Bülbül Club
Welcome to the Bülbül Club - a new meeting place for dancing together and dances from West Asia and North Africa. After an introductory...
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Open Stage
Performance Session
Hosted by Takao Baba
There are many creative urban dancers to be found in the battle scene. By contrast, the number of urban stage productions is comparatively...
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Charlotte Triebus x Mirevi
Precious Camouflage
Assembly-line AI agents produce realistic-looking media content called deepfakes – images of people that could exist in this way while...
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Clara Reiner, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Jacob Bussmann & Frédéric De Carlo
local dancing
Dancing circle dances local dancing invites you to dance local dances accompanied by live keyboard music. For example, there is the Leg...
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Now & Next
With works by Ray, Thaddäus Maria Jungmann and others
The platform for up-and-coming choreographers regularly presents first works under the artists’ own names, projects, and work-in-progress...
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German premiere
Jan Martens / GRIP
VOICE NOISE
VOICE NOISE suggests being part of a much longer event wherein dancers and voices come and go, in an infinite deployment of hidden or...
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Me against the World Battle
hosted by Franky Dee
International hip-hop event Me against the World is entering into a new round. Following the preselection, there will be dance-offs against...
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Premiere
Choy Ka Fai
Sometimes I See the Future
Lecture Performance with Dancing Avatar and Hyperreal Meta-Humans In Sometimes I see the Future, Choy Ka Fai examines telepresence and...
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Dani Abulhawa
Street Melt
Street Melt is a site-specific performative research project that employs skateboarding to explore the effects of climate change in...
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Academy showings - Cloned
Following a semester of intense course work, let us proclaim: The stage is yours! The tanzhaus Akademie participants now have the...
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