SPAZIERTÄNZE: Tanz dich durch Kassels Innenstadt!
Spaziertänze - Tanz dich durch Kassels Innenstadt! organised by Tanzwerk*Kassel fills the city centre of Kassel with four dance stations located at Galeria Service Point-Opernplatz, Friedrichplatz, Treppenstraße and Königsplatz. The event is composed of dance performances that focus on participatory proposals to the audience and an audio guide for the audience to go through the stations. The selected works approach through sensitivity and playfulness topics on hospitable practices, human and more-than-human connection, hierarchies, and togetherness. All performances through diverse styles come together with the same political matter of a Tanzhaus for the city of Kassel.
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26-29th September
Daily at 14:00-15:00
Friedrichsplatz (close to Frankfurter Str.)
Bewegte Statur - Einladung kollektiver Geister
By Johanna Junghans and Sophie Sengle
Photo Credits: Roman Koch
Friedrichsplatz is a place where we usually feel lost. The buildings, Friedrich's stature and the expanse of the square allude to and represent power, hierarchy and oppression. We want to be surrounded by other symbols. So we create a living, moving stature that is orientated towards statues that thematise connection, humanity and resistance.​
A multi-layered, huge fabric will be our costume, but also the connection between us throughout the performance. We will open up a space, shift our landscape around us and invite passers-by and the audience to dance together. We want to find out how we can learn from the wisdom that everything is connected and that each of our actions will have an impact on our surroundings.
We will playfully rehearse the social world in which we would like to participate. This invitation to dance with us will be a dance of connection and play. Together we will discover the possibilities of moving, the joy of letting go a little and staying safely on the ground by connecting through the fabric.​
Tender Clapping
26-29th September
Daily at 15:30-15:55 and 16:30-16:55
By Katja Ferger and Franziska Ullrich
Friedrichsplatz (close to ALEX)
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In "Tender Clapping," a contemporary dance duet by Katja Ferger and Franziska Ullrich, the performers use synchronized clapping to foster tenderness and community in the urban landscape of Kassel. Taking place at Friedrichsplatz, this 25-minute performance involves the dancers, dressed in orange and pink, starting with simple clapping rhythms that the audience is invited to join!
These rhythms grow increasingly complex, incorporating polyrhythms and stomping. The dancers initially maintain distance but gradually come closer, adding choreography and partnering sequences. The piece celebrates the communal spirit, recognizing and involving passers-by in an interactive, lively flash mob-like experience.
Photo Credits: Franziska Ullrich
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26-29th September
Daily at 16:00-17:00
Treppenstrasse (Obelisk)
AUSGESETZT Volume 2​
Einen (Tanz) Raum gestalten - interaktiv
By Duo Kontrapunkt - Marie Simson & Angela Elsa Reimuth
In a one-hour installative performance, the duo Kontrapunkt takes apart the precarious conditions of the lack of space for the independent dance scene in Kassel.
The duo's clownish style and acrobatic partnering elements characterise the performance. As such, the audience is invited into a theatre space cobbled together from cardboard boxes and other makeshift utensils and invited to help shape it according to their own ideas.
Photo Credits: Hannah Elsner
26-29th September
Daily at 17:00-17:50
Galeria Service Point 26-28th Sep.
Opernplatz 29th Sep.
The Hospitality Lab for Forgotten Practices
By Hicks and Reynolds
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You are invited to enter the lab of forgotten hospitable practices, old and newly invented. Your hosts, Larry Queen and Sharon Oddhorn are very excited to connect with you! Whether you need a place to relax, wish to be entertained, or meet a new friend, we value awkward, humorous and creative ways of inviting and caring for one another’s experience.
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Using quirky and ridiculous impulses as an active form of resistance to normative ways of being and knowing, Hicks and Reynolds are interested in performative and interactive spaces that involve the audience in reflecting on an aesthetics of hospitality.
Photo Credits: Karl-Heinz Mierke
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26-29th September
Daily at 15:00-16:00 and 17:00-18:00
Pigeons and People | Workshop
By Lisa Haucke
Meeting point: Courtyard Kulturhaus Dock4
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This workshop requires registration in advance. Click here to register yourself!
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Please, come with training or comfortable trousers to move freely and sneakers.
The city pigeon. Many, many years ago it was active and domesticated as our carrier pigeon. It lived with people in cages, flying from town to town with messages. Through them, we could feel connected to our friends and maintain business relationships, even if we were separated by kilometres.
Today, some people call urban pigeons a nuisance or even ‘flying rats’. But there is something in the pigeons that tells them that we humans mean well for them and this is due to the history that generations before them have had with us humans. They continue to feel connected to us, even if we insult or at least ignore them.
In this practical workshop in the urban space, we will explore this special urban human-animal relationship together and in movement. Participants are invited to walk together in phases of silence and to music and to subtly venture small scenic interventions. In this way, we enter into an encounter with each other and sensitively explore the hustle and bustle of the city and the nooks and crannies hidden within it.
Photo Credits: Jochen Jürgensen / Lisa Haucke