THE AGEING BODY: Performance lab

THE AGEING BODY: Performance lab

DANCE RESEARCH, Projects, Tanzforschung

THE AGEING BODY: KINGS & QUEENS 

Four performance dance-labs in 2025 for people over 55

Under the title KINGS & QUEENS, we invite all people over 55 to explore traditional gender roles and their own positioning within them through dance art under the direction of Silke Z. and Caroline Simon.

How do labels and stereotypes of gender roles become entrenched on a physical level? How can we express these in movements, challenge them and transform them into something new? What biographical imprints and self- and external attributions are there? We want to explore all these questions together with you through dance.

The lab will culminate in a final performance.

Barrier-free access possible. Accompanying persons receive free admission.

All dates: 2025

KINGS & QUEENS #2: 31.03. – 05.04.2025 
KINGS & QUEENS #3: 08.09. – 13.09.2025
KINGS & QUEENS #4: 10.11. – 15.11.2025
FUNDING

Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

 

 

Final lab week:

10. – 15.11.2025

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Lab

10:00 – 15:00 (lunch break included)

Performance

15th November | 8 pm

Registration

Registrations are open and we are looking for participants!
Sign up via:
tanzen@ehrenfeldstudios.de
0221 222 666 3

Participation fee*

50€ nota  (no one turned away)
No one will be excluded from participation for financial reasons.
No previous experience is required for participation.
THE DIVERSE BODY

THE DIVERSE BODY

Projects, Tanzforschung

the diverse body

Dance research labs for people 60+

As part of the multi-year artistic project THE EMPATHIC BODY by choreographer Silke Z. and the transgenerative ensemble die metabolisten, four dance labs for the generation Ü60 will be offered in 2022 under the title THE DIVERSE BODY.

Embedded in a dance series focusing on diversity in society, to which international dance performances are invited, Silke Z. and ensemble members of the metabolists offer a dance laboratory for all people over 60.

Everything revolves around the themes of empathy, language and the body!
The dance labs are dedicated to physical and artistic research at eye level and open up a protected space in which the positions of the generation 60+ can become visible. The work is dance-based and language-based.

Each lab includes an impulse lecture on the thematic focus of the lab, its own final presentation and the opportunity to see dance performances together at the ehrenfeldstudios.

LAB DATES IN 2022

LAB 1 I Mon. 13 – Sat. 18 June 2022
With an impulse lecture by Robin Peters. Topic: Inclusion

Introductory performance by CiM – Dance Company (Portugal)
Follow-up performance by Dance on 60+ (Munich)

LAB 2 I Mon. 19 – Sat. 23 September 2022
With a impulse lecture by Konnective. Topic: gender

Introductory performance by Konnective (Cologne)
Follow-up performance by FELD Theater (Berlin)

LAB 3 I Mon. 17 – Sat. 22 October 2022
With an impulse lecture by Daniel Brunsch and Helena Kukla. Topics: racism, privileges
Follow-up performance by company Zartbitter (Ludwigsburg)

LAB 4 I Mon. 28 November  – Sat. 3 December 2022
With an impulse lecture by Miriam Haller. Topics: age(ing) and everyday life
Afterwards: symposium on dance art & age for experts

FUNDING

The project is funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Förderfonds Kultur und Alter of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia with the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (stage and research), Fonds Darstellende Künste (stage) and the Rheinenergie Stiftung Kultur (mediation). In cooperation with the theatre and media class of the Albertus Magnus Gymnasium, Cologne, Junges Schauspielhaus Bochum and Fokus Tanz, Munich.

The laboratory series THE DIVERSE BODY is funded by the Förderfonds Kultur und Alter of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

 

NEW LAB:

THE AGEING BODY (55+)

25.09.23 – 29.11.23

ehrenfeldstudios, Köln
CURRENT CALL FOR ENTRIES

DETAILS

No prior experience is required to participate.