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Why is the world in crisis when everyone seemingly only wants the best? We are living in the best of all possible worlds. This is what the young Candide is taught by his teacher Pangloss. And even though Candide experiences war, plagues and natural disasters, even though his home is destroyed, his beloved Cunegonde is raped and he himself escapes death by the skin of his teeth on several occasions, he remains an incorrigible optimist as he travels boldly through the Old World and the New World.

The TQW Winter School is a festival and conference, experiment and discussion, located between theory and practice. This year, under the title Dance Class, it devotes three days to classism in contemporary dance and performance art.

Four robbers from Karl Moor's gang from Schiller's famous drama have broken into a villa and are waiting for their leader. How do you pass the time?

The audience joins the five unloved creatures in a space of self-irony and self-love, where one cares for the other, where everyone is valuable and right and allowed to participate. The play celebrates the beauty of ugliness, of being an outsider, and of the creativity that lies dormant within us and allows us to experience connectedness with others.

"New Old" is rather personal. It is on the verge, if not already way over the edge, to something private. Meandering between topics such as the fear of peeing oneself, the mouth-like quality of the vulva, the phenomenologically fascinating thing of being two people at once for a while, as well as how musical the word ‘pussy’ is in different languages, and the consequences thereof.

"The Myth: last day" is centred around a prefabricated archaeological mine, where a pseudo-archaeologist digs objects from the ground. It intertwines reality and fiction and creates myths, thereby constructing speculative pasts and futures. The show’s second part is a black-metal-inspired doomsday concert, where the researcher becomes a chaotic punk-metalhead.

The VRUM Performing Arts Collective plunges into the adventure of fighting fear! Based on the poem "Life doesn't Frighten me", the intergenerational ensemble is developing a production in which it explores the dangers, horrors and craziness of everyday life.

One night. One party. Strange acquaintances. Lonely people in Lost & Found and a mineral water rush.

Join the open rehearsal to get first insights into the new show by Marta Navaridas.

George Frideric Handel was 23 when he wrote "Aci, Galatea e Polifemo" in Naples in 1708. Written as a concert entertainment for a wedding among the nobility, the serenata tells the love story of the nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis which comes to an end when Acis is brutally murdered by the Cyclops Polyphemus.

With humour, poetry and above all imagination, SCHÖN UND GUT. attempts to explore the diversity of ecosystems with the senses - knowing full well that it is impossible to fully grasp the complexity.

"REMACHINE" explores the interplay between humans and an inescapable hyper-mechanised environment. At the mercy of their own technology, the dancers navigate the unstable ground under their feet. The performance unravels as a chain of cause and effect.