When it comes to opera, many begin to dream: of the immediate power of singing and of a universal language of music - a language that finally unites everyone. Does the ancient powerhouse of emotions really hold opportunities for boundless understanding? For "A SINGTHING", the music theater duo Hofmann/van Bebber, together with the percussionist Sabrina Ma, …

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»L'APRÈS-MIDI D'UNE LICORNE« searches for queerness and uniqueness in the image of the unicorn through dance. Based on the ballet piece »L'Après-midi d'un faune« by Vaslav Nijinsky from 1912, rules and norms in sexuality and dance are questioned. Where do the lines run? How are are they set? How do these lines shape our orientation? And how can we queer …

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Based on the most clicked folk dance YouTube videos, "FOLKSTRANCE" revisits the teaching of folk dances in the digital age and cultural context of the 21st century. The dance heritage from Germany and Ukraine is juxtaposed and its potential projected into the future. A transnational collaboration creates an energetic choreography, a trance-like frenzy of …

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Who am I as an artist? What is my vision? How do I find my way into the independent performing arts scene? What resources do I bring with me and how can I use them? Together with the performing arts producers and systemic business coaches Jessica Buchholz and Pam Goroncy we will search for answers and illustrate visions of the future path. In an honest and …

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Do you have questions about your self-employment as an artist, your next application or what the next step to your own project might be? In our advice exchange, different experts are available to you with their knowledge. In 20-minute slots, you'll get concentrated answers to your questions and know afterwards where to go next. Especially recommended for …

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The pitch format "WE PRESENT: Visitenkarten" presents twelve young artists and groups from Hamburg in an analogue and digital space. In short presentations, professional dramaturges, curators and programmers can get to know different artistic signatures and ask personal questions in the Q&A afterwards. Friday, 06/24/2022 1 – 2:30 PM Kampnagel K3

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After the presentation of the final theses of the master's program in Performance Studies in June 2022, a building block of training in Hamburg's independent performing arts will be eliminated. What does this mean for the work of the next generation? We invite representatives of Hamburg's training institutes, theaters, funding institutions, and artists from …

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Hamburg has a lively independent performing arts scene. This requires a close-meshed network of training and funding opportunities, newcomer formats and entry aids for newcomers and graduates. How can we keep this constantly changing network up to date and maintain it in the long term? The panel will start with a keynote speech that gives an overview of …

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What now, as the pre-pandemic daily routine gradually returns? Do we just flip an inner lever and everything is as it never was? How did that go again with living together? Time for group therapy! A constellation in the middle of the city. Under guidance, a wide variety of people try out positioning and confessing, they strive for rapprochement and …

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Choreographer Yolanda Morales takes the 500-year conquest by the Conquista in Mexico as the occasion for her dance production "HORSES". In pre-colonial Mexico there were no horses, and the large animals terrified the indigenous population. In Hall 3 of the Oberhafen in Hamburg, 10 dancers now tell a different story. It is about an approach to the figure of …

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In their film, Nora Elberfeld, Jonas Woltemate and their seven-member ensemble celebrate the visually powerful language of Baroque painting with movement, music, costume and great emotion. Nine pictures with motifs such as abundance, pathos and sensuality are examined in opulent choreographies for their significance for the present. In places of more or …

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The eighth edition of Hauptsache Frei tries to become more barrier-free and to create more connection possibilities. In the process, more and more barriers become visible that need to be removed. That's why the participation team invites you to the Barrier Awareness Workshop: Long-standing experts of the independent scene are invited to share their good …

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For the fourth time, INTERVISIONS is examining the questions of the 21st century as part of the altonale - on a daily basis and from multiple perspectives. The question of what freedom can be is particularly pressing now. Whose freedom? Of what? And what does it mean for others? Together with other artists and experts, MischPULK will illuminate what is …

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In this hybrid of concert, performance and installation Frisch&Schick deal with the topic of HIV and AIDS prevention as well as with the history of the disease and its impact on psyche and society. From the fear of a death sentence at the time to today's classification of a chronic disease, the team encounters the history of a virus that knows no …

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What now, as the pre-pandemic daily routine gradually returns? Do we just flip an inner lever and everything is as it never was? How did that go again with living together? Time for group therapy! A constellation in the middle of the city. Under guidance, a wide variety of people try out positioning and confessing, they strive for rapprochement and …

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Choreographer Yolanda Morales takes the 500-year conquest by the Conquista in Mexico as the occasion for her dance production "HORSES". In pre-colonial Mexico there were no horses, and the large animals terrified the indigenous population. In Hall 3 of the Oberhafen in Hamburg, 10 dancers now tell a different story. It is about an approach to the figure of …

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In their film, Nora Elberfeld, Jonas Woltemate and their seven-member ensemble celebrate the visually powerful language of Baroque painting with movement, music, costume and great emotion. Nine pictures with motifs such as abundance, pathos and sensuality are examined in opulent choreographies for their significance for the present. In places of more or …

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For the fourth time, INTERVISIONS is examining the questions of the 21st century as part of the altonale - on a daily basis and from multiple perspectives. The question of what freedom can be is particularly pressing now. Whose freedom? Of what? And what does it mean for others? Together with other artists and experts, MischPULK will illuminate what is …

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This year, #BEYONDDIGITAL, in cooperation with the #lichthof_lab and the program "FESTIVALFRIENDS", brings together three artistic tandems of artists working in Hamburg and throughout Germany to visit the festival together, exchange ideas about their work in the field of digitality, and network with other artists in the Hamburg scene. A two-day lab invites …

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This year, #BEYONDDIGITAL, in cooperation with the #lichthof_lab and the program "FESTIVALFRIENDS", brings together three artistic tandems of artists working in Hamburg and throughout Germany to visit the festival together, exchange ideas about their work in the field of digitality, and network with other artists in the Hamburg scene. A two-day lab invites …

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»When I perform, it‘s very personal. I‘m sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.« - Andy Kaufman Even as a young boy growing up in Istanbul, Göktuğ Engel noticed that his father always dominated the social space. On the one hand, through his masculinity, which conformed to social expectations, and on the other hand, through his humour. If …

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Three performers approach the post-socialist memories of three fathers and ask themselves: What is the image of the second generation of "communism"? The stories unfold between Czechoslovakia, Iran and Vietnam and finally lead to Germany. They try and fail: on interview fragments, sound and video collages, on collective text bodies, on the system, on …

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In times of the pandemic, the classroom has become a risk zone for physical encounters. How do students experience the ambivalence between encounter and isolation in digital spaces? In a large-format film installation, the artist collective TÒ SU, together with young experts present aesthetically staged documentary research. They explore how to escape the …

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The primordial cell LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) is the sole and only ancestor of all life on earth. With LUCA, we dive into the primordial soup - into the inconceivable, mind-boggling, miraculous fact that life exists at all. We start in the here and now and catapult ourselves back to the big bang: In the beginning. Dark. LUCA in the black …

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The "TUSCH" program has been bringing together schools interested in theater and Hamburg theater stages for over 20 years. Now TUSCH is also becoming "KUSCH" (Kollektive Und SCHulen). The idea is that artist collectives idealize, conceive and realize their projects in exchange with schools. The team of KUSCH shares with interested artists, teachers and …

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How can the dialogue between the federal government, the states and the municipalities succeed in pulling together in terms of cultural policy? Can the forward-looking potential of the independent performing arts be leveraged together? The panel discussion will explore the question of whether federal funding should continue to be limited to excellence …

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»STEINSTAUB« is an adorably performed show for a young audience in which the world of digital, video games and social media is intertwined with the analogue world of the stage. The performers film each other live with their mobile phones and compete for the favour of their followers by dancing and singing for the next like. In the process, they visit …

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"HIBERNATION" refers to the dormant state of computers, the artificial coma in humans and hibernation in animals. In a poetic series of images, the performance traces what slumbers beneath the sterile surface of things in the in-between. In dreamlike sequences, a lonely spotlight searches for life, two disposers run out - or away. A pack of cleaning robots …

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We appropriate world(s) via the movement principle of rolling. Whether for mobility, the transport of goods or as a leisure activity: modern people roll in public transport, in cars, on bicycles or roller skates. The performance uses rolling be-movement and he-movement and creates a choreography of control, orientation and surrender with humour. Rolling is …

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"The Father and sex. Not an easy thematic link, especially if you are the daughter. The father of director and performer Susanne Reifenrath was a gambler & a philanderer. At Hamburg's LICHTHOF Theater, she turns daddy issues into an (extended) one-woman show. And the wild life also shows its #metoo grimace." - Katrin Ullmann on nachtkritik.de

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"GRANDE ATTAQUE" is a concert choreography between seizure and attack, in which the choreographer Regina Rossi and theater maker Greta Granderath celebrate the excess of gestures and clamor, affect and pathos, appearance and reality. Starting from stagings of hysteria in the 19th century, the whimsical evening questions attributions and pathologizations of …

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»O SOLITUDE!« is a one-to-one performance, a walk through the city, a telephone conversation with senior citizens. with senior citizens. Sounds inspired by stories from a long life are mixed with stories from everyday life - in the senior citizens' residence, in the home, in one's own flat. Based on interviews with senior citizens from Altona, moments of …

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The water of the old moat glistens in the sun, ducks quack and old trees provide shade for a break on the park bench. But where cars whiz by today, horses once trotted, and instead of the café, the heavily armed Bastion Rudolphus stood on the rampart. 202 years ago, it was decided to rededicate the military fortifications to Hamburg's first public garden. …

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Would you like to get an overview of the funding landscape for the independent performing arts in Hamburg and talk directly with funding recipients? Then our Café der (Förder-)Möglichkeiten is just the right thing for you. Whether you are a young artist, a newcomer or a seasoned veteran - we invite you to an informal meet and greet over coffee and cake with …

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"GRANDE ATTAQUE" is a concert choreography between seizure and attack, in which the choreographer Regina Rossi and theater maker Greta Granderath celebrate the excess of gestures and clamor, affect and pathos, appearance and reality. Starting from stagings of hysteria in the 19th century, the whimsical evening questions attributions and pathologizations of …

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With "BECUNTING", the performers embark on a journey of self-discovery through movement and song. In a series of stories dealing with existential questions, BI*PoC, queerness as well as a feeling state of physical and social discomfort, they address everyday experiences and process them in different dance styles - from contemporary to ballroom to classical …

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