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Last weekend, Ioannis Mandafounis' new creation "A Land Within" celebrated its Frankfurt premiere. In this piece, the audience can move freely through the Bockenheimer Depot, open many doors and immerse themselves in various worlds. Sometimes they look down into a black box, at other times they look upwards while two dancers swing in the air attached to ropes. A common thread running through the ...

Last weekend, the DFDC was invited to Sadler's Wells East London as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival with the piece "Join"! Together with students from the Rambert School London, our ensemble was on stage and impressed the audience. In September, "Join" celebrated its world premiere in Dresden, where the ensemble performed together with students from the Palucca Univer...

In our podcast "Wie war's?" people from our audience get to speak. In the new episode "Like a stop in the fog", visitor Nitzrek talks to dramaturg Philipp Scholtysik about her visit to the new production "A Land Within" by Ioannis Mandafounis in Dresden. Listen now on Spotify, Soundcloud and Apple Podcasts.

Today, ‘A Land Within’ by Ioannis Mandafounis celebrates its world premiere in Dresden! No fixed stage, no fixed path – just spaces that emerge and disappear as the audience moves through them. Each world has its own energy, each moment a new perspective. The audience decide where they want to stay, what they see and how they connect what they experience. ‘A Land Within’ can be seen this and nex...

It is now well known that Ioannis Mandafounis likes to involve his audience. In his latest creation, ‘A Land Within’, he takes it one step further: the audience can move freely through different spaces at their own pace. Each location has its own identity, atmosphere, function and vitality, each of which lends the dance a special quality. In Dresden, for example, the Festspielhaus HELLERAU and in ...

Last Sunday it was time again and we invited everyone to take a look behind the doors of the Kommunikationsfabrik in Gallus. A taster dance workshop was offered in our DFDC studio for all those who like to dance themselves. For those who prefer to sit in the audience, our dancers put on a varied programme. Their own artistic and choreographic works were presented, sometimes as a duo, sometimes as ...

Congratulations! Manon Parent receives the Danza&Danza prize for her solo "Scarbo", which the dancer developed together with Ioannis Mandafounis. Scarbo is a gnome, a goblin - the title of the piece is borrowed from Maurice Ravel. Ravel's music also opens the evening. The longer Manon Parent dances, the more the audience is drawn into her innermost world. A world in which sadness, anger, joy, help...

HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts and the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company have realised the joint production "Join" as part of the Federal Cultural Foundation's "Zero" funding project (premiere in September 2024 at HELLERAU). The result is an opera-sized dance production that combines artistic excellence with the challenges of environmental sustainability. The experiences and findings of th...

Open Day – Communication Factory 09 February from 2 pm As part of OpenKOMM!unikationsfabrik, dancers from the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company present their research and their own work at Frankfurt LAB. In the DFDC studio, a workshop with Education Manager Manuel Gaubatz is offered. Nothing new in the West? Yes there is! Between Gallus, Griesheim and the Europaviertel, Schmidtstraße 12 is an extr...

The new year has just begun and rehearsals with guest choreographer Thomas Hauert are in full swing! Thomas Hauert founded his company ZOO in Brussels in 1998. Inspired by his choreographic work, Hauert developed an internationally recognised teaching method based on his movement research with ZOO. Since 2013, he is the artistic director of the bachelor programme for contemporary dance at La Manuf...