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Dancing neighbours | Dance into spring

On the occasion of International Dance Day, a mini-festival on the last two days of April will invite you to dance into spring. A round of talks on 29 April will open the festival: actors from the Chemnitz dance and movement scene will talk about the role that dance can play as a way of interpersonal encounters. On Thursday, 30 April, movement comes to the Garage Campus. Movement workshops will be offered, including hip-hop, contact improvisation and body percussion. Dance initiatives and clubs will present themselves with opportunities to join in. Late in the evening, the programme includes a sober rave, a party without alcohol and drugs.
Photo: Johannes Richter

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entrance free of charge

A day dedicated to movement with movement workshops and dancing together. The programmes are designed so that everyone can take part, regardless of experience and ability. They are aimed at all generations, amateurs and advanced dancers. The focus is on the joy of movement

  • Workshops (approx. 1h)
    13:00: Hip-hop for generations - with Reannah McRea
    14:00 : Body Percussion - with the Mozart Children
    15:00: Contact improvisation - with Nils Dittmar
    16:00: Aikido - with Thomas Schäfer

     

  • Movement & participation formats (approx. 30min)
    Local dance initiatives and clubs introduce themselves and invite you to try them out together.
    18:00: naeher.Kollektiv
    18:35: Caucasian dance group 
    19:10: Lindy Hop
    19:45: Folkverein e. V. - Dance master Lothar Schlaffke
    20:20: Dancing neighbours

     

  • Walpurgis Night
    21:00: Joint lighting of the Walpurgis fireFree dancing
    22:00: Ecstatic Rave - with Duffy Brenner Show and Nils Dittmar

     

  • Open hands-on stations (13:00-18:00)
    Parallel to the workshops, supervised stations invite you to linger and join in:
    - Painting station
    - Film station with dance films
    - "We chop our own salad"
    - Origami

A bar with drinks and snacks is open all day.

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Organizer

Dancing neighbours

The focus of the ‘Tanzende Nachbarn’ movement workshops is on joint movement and networking between neighbourhoods.As part of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025, Team Generation is entrusted with the participation of children, young people, young adults and older people and is developing a programme that takes up and combines their perspectives.

City of Chemnitz The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Free State of Saxony European Capital of Culture

This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.