Duration: 45 min
Participants are needed for the performance. A workshop will be held to prepare for the performance. Registration for participation are possible by e-mail to workshops@theaterderwelt.de.
LOS JUEGOS x Oxymoron brings movement into the city. What happens when people who have never met begin inventing new games together? When the point is not to win, but simply to take part? When rules are not fixed in advance, but evolve collectively?
Artist Checho Tamayo, born in Colombia and now based in Madrid, draws on the experience that play and movement are woven into everyday life. In Colombia, street football is part of growing up. Dance becomes part of protest and a way for neighbourhoods to come together. Movement often creates a sense of community – not just competition.
For five days in Chemnitz, volunteers from across the city meet and collaborate with athletes from Athletic Sonnenberg. People of different ages and backgrounds come together, with
or without experience in dance or sport. They try out simple movements, listen to one another, invent rules and explore what works. Step by step, new games take shape somewhere between football, dance and ritual.
The focus is on team spirit rather than rivalry. On imagination rather than performance. On the pleasure of experimenting together. During the final festival weekend, these newly invented games appear in public space – on squares, in passageways, perhaps even on the tram. Suddenly the city itself becomes a
playground. Passers-by can watch, reflect, or join in spontaneously. LOS JUEGOS x Oxymoron invites everyone to consider a simple yet farreaching question: How do we want to play, and live, together?
From 18 June to 5 July 2026, Chemnitz will be in the international spotlight: Germany's largest international theatre festival "Theatre of the World" is coming to Chemnitz - directly following the Capital of Culture year 2025. For three weeks, Chemnitz will be a meeting place for artists, audiences and theatre enthusiasts from all over the world. A lively celebration of the performing arts will take place on stages, in urban spaces and in unusual locations, overcoming borders and bringing together stories from all parts of the world.
Nine international curators from Australia, Canada, Colombia, Argentina, South Africa, Greece, Jordan, India, Senegal and China are responsible for the festival programme. They will meet in Chemnitz in November to select around 40 outstanding productions - works that they have previously viewed in their regions. The result is an inspiring panorama of current theatre forms, languages and perspectives.
