Big Stage

Future Productions & Series

Mamela Nyamza

In a dark stage space, 10 black dancers stand on pointe shoes with white, ankle-length skirts. They are all bare-chested and hold small white glowing wire objects above their heads - including a tree, a car and a rooster.

Hatched Ensemble

27.02. - 01.03.2025

Mable Preach / FORMATION NOW**

An AI-generated, very symmetrical image of a young black woman looking down. She wears a red top, two braided black pigtails on her left and right shoulders and thick dreadlocks piled on her head.

Opera of Hope

15.01. - 18.01.2025

Sasha Waltz & Guests / Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)

Many people sit in front of a large mirror and stretch their arms crosswise upwards. Blurred hands are raised in the foreground. The reflection is slightly blurred, but some serious, interested, amused faces can be recognised.

Spiegelneuronen

28.11. - 01.12.2024

Tianzhuo Chen / Siko Setyanto

A young man of Color points with two outstretched fingers in front of him and opens his mouth slightly. His short hair is dyed gold, a small horn is stuck to the forehead and his earlobe is stretched. In front of him are plastic ferns and flowers.

Ocean Cage

14.11. - 16.11.2024

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Meskerem Mees / Jean-Marie Aerts / Carlos Garbin / Rosas

12 performers stand close together on a stage. A translucent white cloth floats above and to the right of them and is brightly lit. Behind them, everything is dark. Many lines are painted on the stage.

Exit Above

24.10. - 26.10.2024

After the Tempest

Trajal Harrell / Zürich Dance Ensemble

Five people in black clothing sit very straight on stools on a stage with a black floor. In the foreground, one person dances barefoot in a black dress with a serious look.

The Köln Concert

18.10. - 19.10.2024

Christiane Rösinger

Six people have lined up in a pyramid shape. They all raise their arms in the air and smile.

Die große Klassenrevue

05.10. - 06.10.2024

Past or running Productions & Series

Ceremonial gala for the [k]aleidoskop art award ceremony

A kaleidoscope-like graphic in orange and purple.

04.10.2024

Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Friends

Five people stand on a stage, wearing various extravagant, colourful costumes and headgear. In the background are various geometric shapes in purple, green and white.

Fiddler! A Musical

25.09. - 28.09.2024

Dada Masilo

Four dancers move in a circle around a dancer wearing a colourful dress. The outline of a castle and trees in shades of purple can be seen in the background.

Hamlet

25.09. - 29.09.2024

Kim de l’Horizon

Head portrait of Kim de l'Horizon, a white person with short brown hair, slender beard and pink eye shadow. Kim turns up the collar of a blue jacket and wears elegant rings on their fingers.

»Blutbuch«

26.06.2024

Moderation: Natali Abhyankar

Choke Hole

A group of drag performers stand on a platform and pose. They all wear colorful, bright costumes, crazy wigs and oversized props such as a lollipop, spray cans or a telephone.

Portal

06.06. - 08.06.2024

Extreme Drag Wrestling

Juste Debout Finals 2024

Two young people in street-style clothing dance on a round stage. The tense audience sits around the stage.

01.06.2024

Hosted by Redchild, Nasty, Bruce Ykanji / DJs: Stew, Lucas Benjamin, Texaco, Tijo

Sibylle Berg / Martin Sonneborn

A man and a woman lean casually against a wooden bookshelf. Both are white, slim, slightly older and wear gray suits with a white shirt - the man without a jacket. Behind them hang portrait paintings of a man and a woman.

Hoffnung – Die Rettung der Welt durch gute Hacks

30.04.2024

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Five people in blue stand in front of a reddish cloud of smoke with their arms stretched out far to the side and their fingers spread. They look seriously into the camera. The people behind are blurred. The person in front has a sweaty face.

Beethoven 7

18.04. - 21.04.2024