“A Land Within” is a promenade performance that invites spectators to wander through a series of imagined worlds. Each location has its own identity, atmosphere, function and vitality that induces a distinct quality in the dance.
As the audience moves freely between the locations they travel through the personal emotions and states of each performer. This dreamlike journey is an invitation to explore a mosaic of stories that fan out the many facets of what it means to be human based on the philosopher Maxime Rovere's thoughts on conflict and forgiveness.
Bockenheimer DepotFrankfurt
- Fri04.04.202520:00
- Sat05.04.202520:00
- Sun06.04.202516:00
- Wed09.04.202520:00
- Thu10.04.202520:00
- Fri11.04.202520:00
- Sat12.04.202520:00
- Sun13.04.202516:00
Duration: approx. 105 min, no intermission
During the performance, the audience moves freely between different stations. Seating is provided for the audience.
There will be moments of elevated noise levels during the event.
Accompanying Program
Premiere party
04.04.2025
Following the performance, we cordially invite you to the premiere party. Free admission.
Post-show talk
05.04.2025
Find out more about the collaboration between Ioannis Mandafounis and the philosopher Maxime Rovere
Post-show talk
13.04.2025
Find out more about the background to the production and the artists involved. The talk will be held in English.
Trailer „A Land Within“
Press reviews
“So each room offers its own stories.[…] It is worth lingering and immersing yourself, especially as the art worlds are (sometimes more, sometimes less) oriented towards dialogue. They all develop their own unique pull, and it's great fun to follow the dancers in these semi-choreographed concept spaces with great potential for improvisation and perhaps even join in.” – Torben Ibs for tanznetz.de, 01.03.2025
“This company is really a stunner!” – Elisabeth Nehring for Fazit / Deutschlandfunkkultur, 28.02.2025
“It's really fun to see this, to experience it together with others. […] There are rooms where you don't want to go out again. You just sit down on the floor and stay. – Wiebke Hüster for Kultur heute, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 01.03.2025
"Mandafounis‘ self-developed improvisation technique, which he calls “live choreography”, forms a wonderful basis for the dancers’ high individual presence. Their openness and spontaneity offer scope for the moment. The complexity of this, but also the emotional immediacy of the artistic realisation, seem to touch the premiere audience intensely." – Rico Stehfest for Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 03.03.2025
Interview „A Land Within“
Rehearsals
Podcast "Wie war's?"
A Land Within
- Choreography
- Ioannis Mandafounis
- Dance
- Dancers of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company
- Philosopher and Voice
- Maxime Rovere
- Choreographic assistance
- Pauline Huguet
- Dramaturgy
- Philipp Scholtysik
- Stage and Lighting
- Ioannis Mandafounis
- Costumes
- Dorothee Merg
“A Land Within” is a promenade performance that invites spectators to wander through a series of imagined worlds. Each location has its own identity, atmosphere, function and vitality that induces a distinct quality in the dance.
As the audience moves freely between the locations they travel through the personal emotions and states of each performer. This dreamlike journey is an invitation to explore a mosaic of stories that fan out the many facets of what it means to be human based on the philosopher Maxime Rovere's thoughts on conflict and forgiveness.