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WE ARE AN ARTISTIC COLLECTIVE EXPRESSING OURSELVES DISCURSIVELY AND INTERDISCIPLINARILY, THROUGH THE MEDIUMS OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE, CINEASTICS AND CREATING VISUAL WORLDS WHOSE TEXTILE FACETS STEM FROM FASHION DESIGN. WE COLLABORATE SITUATIONALLY, PRODUCTIVELY AND TRANSPARENTLY TO CREATE RELEVANT, SUSTAINABLE AND INCLUSIVE OFFERINGS. HUNGRY FOR SOCIOCRITICAL DISCOURSE, WE’LL PICK YOU UP FROM SPACES, NON-PLACES, AND HOME. INTO FANTASTIC, UTOPIAN AND AESTHETIC VISIONS OF THE FUTURE.

> TUNE BACK (T I M E)

Between Retrospection and New Beginnings – A Performance About Yesterday as a Blueprint for Tomorrow

TUNE BACK (time) explores nostalgia as a state of the present. Through an aesthetic of loops, glitches, and sound fragments, six performers translate digital vaporwave worlds into movement. Between recognition and strangeness, personal memory and collective imagery, a choreography emerges about the longing for past futures.

Recommended age: 12+
Language: English
Duration: 60 minutes
Trigger warning: Auditory and visual stimuli (loud music, light colors, and changes in lighting)

The TUNE BACK (time) Startnext crowdfunding campaign

Our crowdfunding campaign on Startnext has gained momentum, and we warmly invite all of you to support us financially there through November 13. Just take a look and, above all, check out the rewards we’ve come up with for you as part of the campaign.

We appreciate any support you can provide.

Click here to support our campaign on Startnext

TUNE BACK (time) – the premiere dates

World Premiere:

04. September 2026 (8 p.m.) • LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Leipzig – TICKETS

Further performances:

05. September 2026 (8 p.m.) • LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Leipzig – TICKETS

06. September 2026 (6 p.m.) • LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Leipzig – TICKETS

27. November 2026 (8 p.m.) • HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden – TICKETS

28. November 2026 (8 p.m.) • HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden – TICKETS (There will be a Q&A session afterward)

More about TUNE BACK (time)

> DANCE I NTO MA Y

Dance into May is a collaborative project organized by go plastic company, in which the audience is guided through Hellerau by a city and dance guide in various ways and under moderated instruction, discovering different dance styles in very different locations throughout the garden city.

In the past, Dance into May has focused on the Ruscheweg park, the Waldschänke Hellerau community center, and the Festspielhaus Hellerau festival theater. However, future editions of Dance into May will also explore other locations in Hellerau.

Dance into May always concludes on the forecourt of the Festspielhaus. This then becomes a dance floor where participants and passers-by dance together in a simple choreographed round dance. The day then comes to an end in the adjacent Kulturgarten.

Dance into May opens up professional dance to a wider audience, provides a stage for clubs and dance groups, invites the urban community to participate, and shows how diverse Dresden’s dance scene and its dancers are. Encounters, dialogue, participation, and togetherness arise in a relaxed atmosphere. Everything is connected in and with a shared experience in the Hellerau district.

Participating crews in 2026:

InPresence Dance Company

The InPresence Dance Company was founded by choreographer, producer, trainer, and dancer Luise Knofe and offers training for aspiring dancers as well as advanced amateurs. The initiative provides opportunities to gain professional experience through regular projects on stage and in film. Stylistically, the company blends elements of hip hop and contemporary fusion with urban and commercial influences.

Gems Crew

Gems Crew e.V. is a queer dance crew from Saxony and beyond. We consist of nine members between the ages of 18 and 30. We are united by our skills in hip hop, breaking, house, and waacking, as well as DJing, art, design, and music. As young organizers, we create open spaces for exchange that respect cultural roots and strengthen anti-racism. We organize regular sessions, workshops, and the Feel Your Gem Battle—a battle where we give space and voice to FLINTA* BIPoC in particular.

4roomsCompany

Since 2021, 4roomsCompany has been developing innovative contemporary dance formats that are brought to new venues. The versatile ensemble combines expertise in movement, music, and communication, bringing dance to life on stage, in public spaces, and in interactive formats for a wide audience. A central concern is accessibility: people from a wide variety of backgrounds are invited to experience, witness, and participate in dance.

remix

remix is a four-member K-Pop (Korean Popular Music) dance cover group from Dresden that has been dancing together as a quartet since 2020. K-Pop music encompasses not only the music itself, but also the accompanying hip-hop-influenced dance style. This style has made a name for itself worldwide and has developed a versatility that is also a key focus for remix.

Lotte Jirka & Janosch Horn

Where do we meet? Contact Improvisation asks: Where and how do we come together? Unaware—but not unconscious. Playful, questioning, connected, falling, free, and imperfect.

Janosch Horn likes the color purple, honesty, and sometimes having some peace and quiet. He is a freelance dancer, dance teacher, and organizer of dance events in the fields of contemporary dance and contact improvisation.

Lotte Jirka lives in Dresden and is fascinated by improvisation and movement exploration. She organizes and teaches various formats centered on the contemporary dance form Contact Improvisation.

Tango Argentino

Argentine tango is a wordless dialogue between two people. Two gazes meet, an embrace develops—two bodies merge into a movement that is carried along by the music. Instead of fixed choreography, the dance arises in the moment: from improvisation, connection, and attentive listening between the dancers.

Tango can be experienced in many places in Dresden – at free dance evenings, in various dance schools, or at the Bailamos e.V. tango club. A regular partner is not necessary; dancing with different people is part of the essence of this dance culture. Tango functions like a common language that connects dancers worldwide.

B.O.P.

The B.O.P. constellation consists of artists Caroline Beach, Casey Ouzounis, and Josef Panda, who combine influences from dance, pop music, visual arts, and performance in their work. The three met through various collaborations in Dresden’s art and culture scene. Their intersecting paths, interest in interdisciplinarity, and penchant for the absurd have now brought the artists together for their first performance as B.O.P. for Dance into May.

Date & Information

Date: May 01, 2026 from 4 p.m.

Meeting point: Festival house HELLERAU, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 56, 01109 Dresden

Featuring: In Presence Dance Company, Gems Crew, 4roomsCompany, Tango Argentino, remix, B.O.P. and Lotte Jirka & Janosch Horn Contact Improvisation.

Information

>> TUNE BACK (time) Workshop

As part of HELLERmoves, we invite you to explore the movement systems of our new piece, TUNE BACK (time), for yourselves.

Led by Cindy (choreography/dance) and Susan (production dramaturgy), our workshop begins with an intensive “Tune In”—a warm-up that activates the body and the senses.

From there, we’ll dive into the movement worlds of “TUNE BACK (time)”: We’ll examine movement patterns, rhythms, and systems; move forward and backward; repeat, shift, mirror, and alter sequences. In the process, time isn’t just conceptualized but physically experienced—as something that can be accelerated, slowed down, rewound, and reassembled.

To conclude, it’s time to “Tune Out”: We let the movement fade away, return to ourselves, and perhaps take away a new perspective on time and movement.

Information

Date: November 21, 2026
Duration: 2 hours
Language: German
Venue: HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 56, 01109 Dresden
Meeting point: Visitor Center
Suitable for all skill levels
Free of admission
Further informationen is available here.

Click here for registration

>>> go plastic Mini STUDIO LAB

We are very pleased to announce that a go plastic Mini STUDIO LAB will take place at TENZA from December 14 to 16, 2027.

We will announce detailed information about the program, registration, and participation fees shortly.

go plastic STUDIO LAB is a program of the go plastic company. Funded by the City of Dresden—Office for Culture and Historic Preservation. With the kind support of TanzNetzDresden.

More about go plastic STUDIO LAB

>>>> ASPHALT LABS

Are you an association, a cultural or artistic institution, a social or cultural center and would you like to host an ASPHALT LAB? Then send us a request to info@goplasticcompagnie.de and we’ll see together what would be the best offer for you and your audience.

A detailed listing of the ASPHALT LABs in 2024 and 2025 as well as all relevant information about the format ASPAHLT LAB itself can be found here.

ASPHALT APP LABS, a project by the go plastic company. Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament. Funded by the Office for Culture and Monument Protection as part of the institutional funding of the state capital Dresden. With the kind support of TENZA and TanzNetzDresden as well as the partners: LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Grünauer Kultursommer, Heinrich Schütz Konservatorium, Kulturkraftwerk Mitte, Hafenstube TELUX Weißwasser, TanzART Kirschau and JKS Passage.

> ASPHALT WELTEN APP

COME OUT AND PLAY. THE CITY IS YOURS.

What do skyscrapers and cloud formations have in common? Quite simply: what you make of them by yourself. And the ASPHALTWELTEN app opens up just that in lots of playful challenges: new urban worlds in a very private and interactive focus.

Fountains become your stage, walkways your playground and parks turn into your individual creative laboratory.

With your smartphone and the ASPHALTWELTEN app, you can discover how much playground there is in your surroundings and how much creativity you have inside of yourself. Experience how your view of your city changes when you spend time in and with it intensively and without distraction. Let yourself be challenged again and again. Every day.

How the app works

The ASPHALTWELTEN app invites you once a day to a small challenge in public space. By using video, photo, text or speech, you are called to complete a task and document it with one of the tools offered within the app. You don’t need any previous knowledge or skills for this. A smartphone, a lot of curiosity and a little creativity are all you need.