Off Europa 2025 – Main program
WITNESS
10th of May // 8 p.m.// Leipzig // Theater der Jungen Welt // Dance Technology // Věra Ondrašíková a kol. Laser-like projections bathe the stage, tree skeletons, dancers and the audience in unreal, beautiful light and create magical, epic to (nightmarish) dreamlike associative spaces.
The widely toured performance by Věra Ondrašíková and her team won the Audience Award at the Czech Dance Platform 2022, among others. No language barrier.
LetMeC_natur
11th of May // 8 p.m.// Leipzig // LOFFT – DAS THEATER // LetMeC_natur // Dance Performance // Márta Ladjánszki & Zsolt Varga (Ungarn) In a time where nudity on stage has become an almost natural part of contemporary art, Márta Ladjánszki and Zsolt Varga take their audience on a unique journey, offering the opportunity to
experience shared nudity as a basic agreement on and in front of the stage. The participation in the event requires the consent to attend the performance without clothes. Please bring a towel or something similar so that you can sit on the unseated spectator stand. No language barrier.
Die Goldgräber
13th of May // 11 a.m.// Olbernhau // Theater Variabel //Die Goldgräber // 3D Technologie Virtual Puppetry // Puppentheater Zwickau During the pandemic, the Zwickau Puppet Theater invented a technology and a format for its „Virtual Puppetry“ series that manages to merge short texts from classical literature and contemporary puppetry into a completely new, suggestive and emotional experience. Using 360° film technology, VR glasses and surround sound, a story is brought to life in an artificial world without physical boundaries. Performance in German. Followed by a lecture on the making of.
DEVOURER
13th of May // 8 p.m.// Leipzig // LOFFT – DAS THEATER // DEVOURER // Dance Performance /Alica Minar & colleagues DEVOURER, “the devourer,” exists only to have. In the almost hour-long production, Alica Minar develops a character whose initially naive joy in finding and collecting simple, black balls turns into unbridled greed, and who at some point seems to use any means to satisfy it. Every ingestion, every swallow reveals more and more that it is our very own human nature that we are watching. Performed in English with German surtitles.
Art Attack
13th of May // 8 p.m. // Dresden // Societaetstheater // Art Attack // Dance Happening // Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor The dance piece/happening that lends the festival its title this year operates in a force field between appealingly proclaimed art theory and unleashed live excess. With intense dancing, a combative pose and or queer playfulness, it charges erratically and light-footed through the pop- cultural spaces between revolution and kitsch. A captivating celebration of non-conformity and the stage moment. Performed in English.
Die Goldgräber
14th of May // 8 p.m.// Leipzig // LOFFT – DAS THEATER // Die Goldgräber // 3D Technologie Virtual Puppetry // Puppentheater Zwickau During the pandemic, the Zwickau Puppet Theater invented a technology and a format for its „Virtual Puppetry“ series that manages to merge short texts from classical literature and contemporary puppetry into a completely new, suggestive and emotional experience. Using 360° film technology, VR glasses and surround sound, a story is brought to life in an artificial world without physical boundaries. Performance in German. Followed by a lecture on the making of.
Art Attack
15th of May // 8 p.m. // Leipzig // LOFFT – DAS THEATER // Art Attack // Dance Happening // Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor The dance piece/happening that lends the festival its title this year operates in a force field between appealingly proclaimed art theory and unleashed live excess. With intense dancing, a combative pose and or queer playfulness, it charges erratically and light-footed through the pop- cultural spaces between revolution and kitsch. A captivating celebration of non-conformity and the stage moment. Performed in English.
Die Goldgräber
15th of May // 11 a.m.// Augustusburg // Lehngericht // Die Goldgräber // 3D Technologie Virtual Puppetry // Puppentheater Zwickau During the pandemic, the Zwickau Puppet Theater invented a technology and a format for its „Virtual Puppetry“ series that manages to merge short texts from classical literature and contemporary puppetry into a completely new, suggestive and emotional experience. Using 360° film technology, VR glasses and surround sound, a story is brought to life in an artificial world without physical boundaries. Performance in German. Followed by a lecture on the making of.
How I Learned to Drive
16th of May // 8 p.m.// Leipzig // LOFFT – DAS THEATER // How I Learned to Drive // Theatre /Heartefact A woman reflecting on her life – a life that is marked by a trauma. For two months the director and her actors delved into the darkest corners of human interactions, to create a work that offers the audience what has defined theater for millennia – catharsis. Adaptation of an American stage classic, honoured with the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. In Serbian with German and English surtitles.
MilchMärchenRechnung
16th of May // 8 p.m. // Dresden // projekttheater // MilchMärchenRechnung // Theatre for machine + alphorn // Peter Müller + Gundolf Nandico A submarine chases across the horizon, to uncover hidden truths. Searching in the eternal ice, in endless deserts, oceanic deep sea trenches and fairy-tale dictatorships, Peter Müller and Gundolf Nandico transform their theater machine over and over again. The three dimensional shape of the Theatrum Mundi, a machinery of the absurd, combines with the musical journey of the alphorn. Performance in German.
perFORMing LOVE
17th of May // 8 p.m.// Leipzig // LOFFT – DAS THEATER // perFORMing LOVE // Dance / Roni Chadash & Company The young ensemble from Israel dances the idea of „love“ in many facets, as effectively as it is warm-hearted as a process and as a physical state. The performance – which of course has the potential to be kitschy, given such a topic – is charismatic and moving. And as a group work, a great utopia in remembrance of the state of our world. No language barrier.
Laute Stille
17th of May // 8 p.m. // Dresden // projekttheater // Laute Stille // Dance Improvisation Music Performance // Fine Kwiatkowski + MONDOLETTOSOTTOILCORVO featuring Fabrizio Spera Sounds crash into walls, a body meets the light. A crackling sound roams through the room. Secrets are revealed, sensitivities are uncovered. Breathing, turmoil and silence. A band, a guest musician and a dancer – music and dance, improvisation and space create a multi-faceted conversation. Premiere. No language barrier.
