“Look at me! You look good – for your age! Shall we… do something together for the first time? Something unique. See how the spotlight is travelling over my body? You’ve been watching that the whole time, haven’t you?

Doing the unexpected for one night. Making the hidden visible. Saying the unsaid. Doing naughty things precisely because it’s not proper… for our age. Are we still not too old for this shit?”

This supra-regional festival brings together choreographers, theatre makers, mediators and people aged 60+. Over two days, the alliance between Silke Z. / resistdance (Cologne), moving_SpAces (Munich), the TTW’s ZARTBITTER theatre for the elderly (Ludwigsburg) and OLDSCHOOL (Cologne) will create a unique programme with performances, workshops, an exhibition, talks and a party on the visibility of age in the performing arts. The finale of the festival will be the premiere of a three-part performance evening by the various ensembles of the 60+ generation, who have explored the topic in advance.

Come a little closer. Even closer. Super close. Can you feel our age? Can you taste our experiences? Do you desire our knowledge? Which body will you reveal to me?  

In TEMPTATION, 10 performers over the age of 55 move between lust and loss, flirtation and shame, pleasure and pain and create a statement on sexuality in old age(s) in biographical excerpts and physical snapshots. TEMPTATION embarks on a lustful journey to stimulating, lost and obscure places and is dedicated to the visibility of individual lust in old age(s). 

The ensemble is made up of performers from the OLDSCHOOL theatre ensemble of Schauspiel Köln under the artistic direction of David Vogel as well as performers from the Silke Z. company.

In WITH US. EPISODE 4 by choreographer Silke Z., dancers Karel Vaněk and Bettina Muckenhaupt meet. They embark on an impulsive process of rapprochement in which they explore different versions of themselves and make themselves available to each other with skin and hair. Sometimes explosive, sometimes pleasurable, they peel themselves from one skin into the next and play passionately with their relationship to independence.

Bettina Muckenhaupt and Karel Vaněk have been realising dance performances together with choreographer Silke Z. for many years and are both part of Silke Z.’s intergenerational ensemble “die metabolisten”.