NIGHT OF SHORT PIECES

Mit der Night of Short Pieces schafft das Festival eine Bühne für kurze choreografische Arbeiten junger internationaler Künstler:innen. In kompakten Performances präsentieren Tänzer:innen und Choreograf:innen ihre neuesten Arbeiten. Das Format ermöglicht experimentelle Ansätze, fördert künstlerischen Austausch und bietet Nachwuchskünstler:innen Sichtbarkeit in einem professionellen Festivalrahmen.

Inspired by Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, Still Blind, Let Me See explores love, longing, and restraint through the poetic language of movement. Blending traditional Chinese dance, physical theatre, and contemporary movement, the work evokes the nostalgia of fleeting connections and the tension of unspoken emotions. By challenging conventional expectations of gender and movement, the piece reimagines intimacy as a space of freedom, vulnerability, and possibility, where bodies become the primary storytellers of desire and absence.

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Rasgo is the moment when pressure becomes rupture. In Portuguese, the word refers both to a tear in a surface and to a sudden impulse that breaks through restraint. Inspired by invisible energies, subtle shifts of reality, and the body's capacity to exceed gesture, the solo explores movement as a force that pulls memory into motion. Space itself becomes a living choreographic field where inner landscapes emerge, transform, and dissolve, revealing the fragile threshold between containment and release.

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For those who express themselves through movement, every gesture becomes a thought and every hand a storyteller. Communication does not disappear in silence; it simply takes another form. Through playfulness, innocence, and attentive presence, NOI celebrates the body's innate ability to connect beyond language. The work explores a form of communication rooted in movement, where the smallest details carry meaning and where understanding emerges through shared presence rather than spoken words.

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AKIN (Turkish for 'influx') investigates the tension between collective movement and individual experience within urban everyday life. Like a swarm, people follow synchronized patterns, routines, and social structures that appear efficient and predictable. Yet beneath this apparent harmony lie personal stories, emotions, and often profound loneliness. Through a physical movement language influenced by street and club dance styles, AKIN questions how deeply automated systems shape our behaviour and asks whether it is possible to reclaim individual freedom from within collective structures.

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MEU FUGAR (not confirmed yet)

Born from a personal journey of self-discovery, Meu Fugar explores the body as a gateway to emotion, presence, and transformation. Moving through states of vulnerability, resistance, and release, the solo unfolds through a physical language that shifts from fluid, wave-like motion to sharper and more expansive forms. Breath becomes an anchor, guiding the body toward a deeper connection with itself and the world around it. As the work progresses, movement opens into a sense of lightness and flight, revealing a longing for freedom, connection, and belonging. Ultimately, Meu Fugar proposes home not as a place, but as a living relationship with life itself.

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INSTANT ist ein zeitgenössisches Tanzstück über das Loslassen, Erinnern und die Vergänglichkeit – über Verbundenheit, Verluste und Widersprüchlichkeiten. Aus unterschiedlichen Fragmenten entsteht ein vielschichtiges Geflecht, das die Flüchtigkeit von Erinnerungen ebenso wie das Festhalten an ihnen erfahrbar macht. Es untersucht die körperlichen Ebenen der Gleichzeitigkeit von Gegenwart und Vergangenheit, spielt mit Nähe und Distanz und thematisiert Trauer ebenso wie kollektive Stärke.

Das Stück bewegt sich zwischen kraftvollen und sensiblen Bewegungsqualitäten und verbindet minimalistische, repetitive Sequenzen mit dynamischen choreografischen Passagen. Der Atem, der eine unmittelbare Verbindung zwischen Loslassen und Festhalten herstellt, wird zum Bindeglied zwischen Innen und Außen.

KONZEPT + CHOREOGRAFIE: Giuliana Piel

TÄNZERINNEN: Rachel Dercourt, Jula Guthseel, Nina Kriukova, Noa Schön, Katharina Sonnberg, Emilia Quiñones, Brenda Zevallos

MUSIK: Luka Leesker