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JOIN Touring in Europe
October 22, 2024
After "Join", the new production by Ioannis Mandafounis, celebrated its world premiere in Dresden and then its Frankfurt premiere in recent weeks, it is now continuing across Europe. We are thrilled that "Join" has been invited to be part of this year's Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival 2025 in London. Join’ will also be shown at the Théâtre de la Ville Paris this November. "Join" ...
So viel CO2 kostet die Anreise zu JOIN
October 21, 2024
Als „Join“ im September Premiere in Dresden gefeiert hat, haben wir unser Publikum über seine Anreise befragt. „Join“ wird im Programm „Fonds Zero“ der Kulturstiftung des Bundes gefördert, was Kultureinrichtungen darin unterstützen soll, klimafreundlichere Produktionsformen und neue Ästhetiken mit geringstmöglicher Klimawirkung zu erproben. Im Laufe des Prozesses werden die CO2- Emissionen erfasst...
ONE ONE ONE – mit 50 Tänzer*innen in Frankfurt!
October 18, 2024
Am Mittwoch hat Ioannis Mandafounis' Kreation „One One One“ im Rahmen von „Join“ mit rund 50 Tänzer*innen in ihrer bisher größten Version stattgefunden. Es tanzten das Ensemble der DFDC, Studierende der HfMDK sowie auch erstmals Lai*innen, die vorab an einem Workshop zu diesem Projekt teilgenommen haben. Zum ersten Mal konnten dabei auch unsere Workshopteilnehmer*innen gemeinsam mit den Profis die...
JOIN Frankfurt Premiere: An Evening Full of Applause and Inspiration
October 11, 2024
It was a celebration! Last night, JOIN by Ioannis Mandafounis celebrated its Frankfurt premiere at the Bockenheimer Depot. JOIN is the first piece of the season and the company's first piece to work with local dance students. Accordingly, 25 students from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts will be on stage together with our ensemble in JOIN. The "Join" project will be accompani...
Einblicke in den Workshop zu "One One One"
October 11, 2024
Am 16. Oktober werden die Teilnehmer*innen des Community Dance Workshops zu „One One One“ gemeinsam mit Tänzer*innen der Company und Studierenden der HfMDK die Performance im Stadtraum Frankfurt aufführen. Es ist nicht nur die bisher größten Ausführung der Performance mit rund 50 Tänzer*innen, sondern auch das erste Mal, dass Lai*innen an der Performance beteiligt sind. In diesem Beitrag geben ...
„À la carte“ für den deutschen Theaterpeis DER FAUST nominiert!
September 24, 2024
Ioannis Mandafounis' production "À la carte" has been nominated for this year's German theatre award DER FAUST in the category "Staging Dance"! "À la carte" was the first production of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company under the artistic direction of Ioannis Mandafounis and is characterised by a variety of dance styles, atmospheres and themes. In its nomination, the jury also emphasises the DFD...
JOIN – world premiere in Dresden
September 20, 2024
Yesterday evening, Ioannis Mandafounis' new creation "Join" celebrated its world premiere in HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts in Dresden. Together with 60 students from the Palucca University of Dance, the ensemble of the DFDC realized the attempt of dancers coming together at completely different points in their personal and professional trajectory. After spending a long time working on t...
Have a seat for a dance!
September 16, 2024
Last Saturday we performed ONE ONE ONE in Dresden! The special aspect of this performance by Ioannis Mandafounis is that it takes place in public spaces - this time at Dresden-Neustadt station and the Kulturpalast. One chair, one dancer – that’s the point of departure for “One One One”. Whoever takes a seat becomes the focus of the dance, since the performers improvise based on impulses given by ...
JOIN rehearsals: We are in the thick of it!
September 11, 2024
It's almost time: JOIN by Ioannis Mandafounis, a co-production with HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts, will premiere on 19. September. Students from the Palucca University of Dance Dresden will perform together with the DFDC ensemble. How can dancers come together at completely different points in their personal and professional trajectory? How do people come together in their diversity? U...
Naratives of the Climate Crisis – Lecture by Carolin Grumbach 16.10.2024
September 2, 2024
The climate crisis MOVES us all – it moves you, the visitors, it moves cultural institutions, and it moves dancers. Carolin Grumbach, a scientist in the modeling of environmental and climate systems at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Institute for Environmental Systems Research in Osnabrück, and also a dancer and choreographer herself, is engaged in rethinking narratives ...
It gets loud in the Ruhr area: À LA CARTE at the Ruhrtriennale
August 23, 2024
It was colorful and loud again! After our opening performance last weekend with “One One One”, we were also able to captivate the audience yesterday with “À la carte”. The Ruhrtriennale premiere was introduced by Philipp Scholtysik, dramaturge of the DFDC. The stage for our performance this time was the Pact Zollverein. This is one of the venues of this year's Ruhrtriennale, which is located in th...
Creative ways for climate-neutral artistic producing
June 26, 2024
„Join“ ist die erste gemeinsame Tanzproduktion, die HELLERAU und die Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company (DFDC) klimaneutral realisieren. Pina Schubert (Projekt Zero), Tobias Blasberg (HELLERAU) sowie Annika Glose und Ioannis Mandafounis (DFDC) berichten im Interview mit Henriette Roth (HELLERAU) über den Prozess. Dieses Interview ist zuerst erschienen im HELLERAU Magazin. Was ist das Besondere an ...
William Forsythe receives the kyoto-Price 2024!
June 19, 2024
The Kyoto Prize is also known as "the Nobel Prize of the Arts" and is considered one of the highest honours for services to science and culture. The prize honours Forsythe's contributions to contemporary dance and his groundbreaking works that have revolutionised the understanding of dance. American choreographer and dancer William Forsythe will receive the Kyoto Prize 2024, which honours Forsyth...
RELEASED in Ascona
June 17, 2024
Last Sunday, the site-specific performance RELEASED by Ioannis Mandafounis celebrated its world premiere as part of the Lugano Dance Project at the Teatro San Materno in Ascona under a bright blue sky. The theatre, an architectural gem built in 1927/28 for dancer Charlotte Bara, became well-known in the Italian part of Switzerland for the many performances, mime and theatre events, concerts and c...
À la carte at the Athens Epidaurus Festival
June 10, 2024
Last week, we were invited to the Epidaurus Festival in Athens with ‘À la carte’. We presented Ioannis Mandafounis' creation on two evenings. The Athens Epidaurus Festival is Greece’s leading cultural organisation and one of the oldest continuously running festivals in Europe. Spanning 69 years, the Festival has welcomed some of the greatest music, dance, and theatre artists of the international ...
Programme Release of the Season 24/25
May 23, 2024
Heute, am 23. Mai lud die Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company zur Pressekonferenz in ihr Studio in der Schmidtstraße 12 in Frankfurt am Main ein. Das Podium bildeten Ioannis Mandafounis, Künstlerischer Direktor und Annika Glose, Kaufmännische Direktorin sowie für die Vorstellung der Produktion „Join“ die Gäste Pina Schubert, Projektleitung ZERO, und die beiden Professor*innen für Tanz Jason Beechey vo...
Rückblick Urban Cultural Monday
May 21, 2024
Wer kennt die Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company und ihren neuen Künstlerischen Direktor Ioannis Mandafounis noch nicht? Beim vergangenen Urban Cultural Monday konntet ihr ihn und Tänzerin Nastia Ivanova kennenlernen. Die Reihe Urban Cultural Monday stellt jeden Montag Kulturinstitutionen und Kulturschaffende aus Frankfurt vor. Alle Veranstaltungen sind kostenfrei. Wir waren diesen Montag mit dabei...
Welcome Premiere in Frankfurt
April 29, 2024
What an evening! Last Friday, our double bill “Welcome” with the pieces “Wesenwelt” and “Warpscapes” celebrated its world premiere at the Bockenheimer Depot. In “Wesenwelt”, Norwegian choreographer Kristin Ryg Helgebostad turns the ensemble into a collective body like a swarm of bees, while in “Warpscapes” by choreographer Sergiu Matis, landscapes are created on stage, which the dancers inhabit a...
MEET THE SNAKE – New Format on Improvisation Practice!
April 29, 2024
MEET THE SNAKE is a monthly improvisation event held at the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company studio on Schmidstrasse. The event is a platform for sharing and discussing improvisation practice, open to dancers of all genres and styles including contemporary, vogue, hip hop, modern, folk, and house dance. The evening is hosted by our dancers Thomas Bradley and Nastia Ivanova The event is free of ch...
Nachruf auf Bernhard von Loeffelholz
April 24, 2024
Dr. Bernhard Freiherr Loeffelholz von Colberg, ehemaliger Vorstand der Kulturstiftung Dresden der Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt und Präsident des Sächsischen Kultursenats, ist am 14. April 2024 im Alter von 89 Jahren verstorben. Die Geschicke der Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, vormals The Forsythe Company, sind von Beginn an eng mit Bernhard von Loeffelholz verbunden. Er hatte maßgeblichen Anteil a...
DFDC goes Floor on Fire
April 16, 2024
The "Floor on Fire" dance format at Festspielhaus HELLERAU Dresden pits breakdance against ballet, street style against contemporary and hip-hop against ballet. It offers all dancers a stage to first show their own dance style and then dance in teams against another team without following a choreography. An experience for dancers and audience alike This week, two of our dancers, Thomas Bradley an...
Dancing through the woods
April 11, 2024
The forest is many things: home to biodiversity, a place of longing for people, an object and subject of art and natural science. All this is reflected in the current exhibition at the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt in cooperation with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. We are represented in the exhibition with a short film and two of our dancers perform in the rooms of the museum, inviting visito...
Dance2Narration Premiere at Schauspiel Frankfurt
March 30, 2024
On 28.03.2024 our double bill "Dance2Narration" celebrated its premiere at Schauspiel Frankfurt. After the intensive rehearsals in the studio and the move to the Schauspiel stage, everyone was happy when the time finally came on Thursday and the pieces "Bis.N.S. (as usual)" and "Lisa" could be performed in front of an audience. The house was full and there was a lot of dancing at the premiere part...
Back to the 30s at the costume rehearsal of LISA
March 21, 2024
In "Lisa", our ensemble is completely immersed in the 1930s. Live-choreography, the methodology of Ioannis Mandafounis, allows for a choreography to be created on the spot. In “Lisa” this includes the dancers individually choosing when to enter and exit the stage. The piece combines these dramaturgical principles with poems by the lyricist Osip Mandelshtam from the Soviet Union and music by Gabri...
Rehearsal impressions with guest choreographer Kristin Ryg Helgebostad
March 14, 2024
It got musical in the studio this week because for "Wesenwelt" choreographer Kristin Ryg Helgebostad and composer and carillonist Laura Marie Rueslåtten transform the ensemble into a collective musical instrument. All the dancers hold at least one bell in their hands. Every movement leads to a sound and every sound requires a movement. On stage the ensemble acts as a collective subject. What happe...
Insight into rehearsal with guest choreographer Sergiu Matis
March 5, 2024
We sweated, warped, framed and, above all, danced! In WARPSCAPES, Landscapes are created, which the dancers inhabit as not-only-human creatures, which they design and examine, which they observe and in which they disappear. Discovering distortions and amplifying them, warping is the central method in order to approach the constant and contradictory changes in the living world – without having to ...
Behind the scenes: Film shoot for the Senckenberg Naturmuseum
March 5, 2024
"Behind the scenes" or should we rather say: "Behind the trees"? For our cooperation project "If you don't get lost in the woods, you haven't been to the woods" with the Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt, we headed to the Taunus with a small team. Once there, we shot a short film that will be shown as part of the "Forests" exhibition (March 16 to August 11, 2024) at the Senckenberg Museum. Our d...
Tag der offenen Tür – Kommunikationsfabrik
January 9, 2024
Open KOMM!unikationsfabrik 21.01.2024 ab 14 Uhr Im Frankfurter Westen entwickelt sich seit vielen Jahren ein außergewöhnlicher Ort für Kunst, Kreatives, Musik und Clubkultur. Bei Open KOMM!unikationsfabrik öffnet sich die Schmidtstraße 12 für Menschen allen Alters zu einem Nachmittag voller Erlebnisse. Bei Malworkshops, Druckwerkstatt, Openstage, Gaming, Tanz, Theater, Flugsimulator, live Musik,...
Give the gift of dance!
December 19, 2023
Are you still looking for a Christmas present for your loved ones? Give the gift of a shared experience with a visit to a performance or workshop. We have put together some ideas for you. Performance visit for the whole family With "Wandeln" by Katja Erfurth, we are presenting a family play for ages 6 and up for the first time, which deals with the themes of change and personal growth. Dates: 20...
Idos „Familienfotos“
December 5, 2023
Thank you, Frankfurt! In "À la carte", our dancer Ido gave his cell phone to a person in the audience every evening to take "a great family photo". We have compiled the results of our 8 performances in Frankfurt in a picture gallery. Have fun clicking through! We are now looking forward to showing "À la carte" in Dresden, to great evenings with our visitors and to more "great family photos".
School performance "One One One"
October 5, 2023
This week, as part of our school project, our two dancers Sarah and Noémie performed "One One One" at schools in Frankfurt. Whoever takes a seat on one of the chairs joins in. The child and the dancer look at each other and then dance for as long as they maintain eye contact. A silent dialogue is created, a unique encounter and an opportunity to be directly involved. The creation “One One One” by...
"One One One" at the Sommerwerft Festival
August 8, 2023
The new season under the artistic direction of Ioannis Mandafounis has begun. Since 1 August, he has been working with our new ensemble of 16 dancers. A nice start was the performance "One One One" at the Frankfurt Sommerwerft Festival. The FAZ and the Strandgut reported on the first performance of the new season. On Saturday, the stones sparkled and so did the dancers. Their eyes constantly me...
Press Conference Review
June 23, 2023
On 22 June 2023, we invited to a press conference in our studio in Frankfurt. Ioannis Mandafounis, Artistic Director; Annika Glose, Managing Director and Annekatrin Klepsch, Cultural Mayor of the State Capital Dresden formed the podium. They introduced the program for the new 2023/24 season, talked about new paths taken and shared visions, and presented the company's new corporate design. We are...