Lekuz Leku Festival Bilbao

“West-Land-Tänze” Open Air THE THEATER DER KLÄNGE was a partner in the EU project “Dance highways” from 2021 to 2023, in which five European producers from Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Spain developed proposals for attracting audiences in...

The boards that mean the city

A journey through the Dusseldorf independent theatre and dance scene In the 1970s, traditional theatre culture dominated Düsseldorf; alternative theatres such as ZAKK, FFT or tanzhaus nrw were still unthinkable. It was not until the late 1970s and 1980s that a diverse...

The Book “Palimpsest” is published

Tredition-Verlag The 2024 dance theatre production “West-Land-Tänze” by Düsseldorf’s THEATER DER KLÄNGE was preceded by an extensive research phase in 2023.The book “Palimpsest” summarises the research results on the subject of folk...

Die Bretter, die die Stadt bedeuten

Our book launch for the book “Die Bretter, die die Stadt bedeuten” on 8 May at the Theatermuseum Düsseldorf was well attended, amusing and warm-hearted, as suddenly many protagonists were gathered in one place again, who you used to meet in the JuTA,...
Norway

Norway

From 7 to 18 August 2023, the Norwegian organisation Davvi – Senter for scenekunst has invited us to Hammerfest for 12 days as part of a residency programme. Our choreographer Jacqueline Fischer, our artistic director J.U. Lensing and the dancer Sophia Otto will...
The Mechanical Ballet

The Mechanical Ballet

100 years ago, the first performance exhibition of the Bauhaus took place in Weimar with the so-called “Bauhaus Weeks”. As part of this exhibition, the Bauhaus students also performed a programme entitled “The Mechanical Cabaret” in the...
Lecture

Lecture

The Heinrich Heine Kreis Düsseldorf spontaneously supported the Theater der Klänge in autumn 2020 with funds from a Corona aid fund and was thus one of the first aid organisations specifically for artists before the federal programme “Neustart Kultur” was...
Virtual Theatre

Virtual Theatre

A Corona project in 2021 – with the support of the Performing Arts Fund with funds from Neustart Kultur – was the construction of our “Virtual Total Theatre of Sounds”. It was opened on 3 October 2021 after six months of construction and has...
Documentaries

Documentaries

Our 2022 activities on the project “Understanding Contemporary Art”, funded by the City of Düsseldorf, resulted in a total of six workshops held in our rehearsal studio between October 2022 and February 2023. The two 2022 workshops by choreographer Pedro...
West-Land-Dances

West-Land-Dances

After we – once again supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste within the framework of “Neustart Kultur” – spent the entire first half of 2023 researching folk dance and music primarily from the Rhineland and Westphalia under the...
The boards that mean the city

The boards that mean the city

In the period from August 2022 to April 2023, 36 interviews were conducted with a total of 39 protagonists of the Düsseldorf independent scene (performing arts). The resulting 29 hours of interview material (430 pages of text) currently form the basis for the...