Football Moves People
With FOOTBALL MOVES PEOPLE, the International Summer Festival and the Kampnagel season are creating a year-long focus on soccer, art and Europe. Stage productions will be shown that deal with the topic of migration in the context of the soccer world and are outstanding examples of the impetus that soccer and art can provide for an open society. Combined with three stage productions and a large hip-hop format, this is a workshop and community program that combines art and soccer over the course of several months in Hamburg. The project kicked off with a focus on soccer at the International Summer Festival in August 2023 with two guest performances and a world premiere that dealt with migration, sport and fan culture. The productions JOSSE JNR. by Ahilan Ratnamohan, LA FRACTURE by Yasmine Yahiatene and ONE SONG by Miet Warlop were already shown in August 2023, and projects such as the choreographic youth project KLAPPSQUAD by Ahilan Ratnamohan were also performed with great success. However, many more events are still to come. The crowning glory is JUSTE DEBOUT, the world's biggest street dance battle.