program

Do 03.07.

15:00–18:00

Die Ost-West AG

Radikal Intuitiv und total regional

as part of Impulse Festival 2025

The Ost-West-AG is an NGO. The AG is interested in connections and disconnections between East and West and is actively involved in bringing artists from all over Germany together: They argue and cook, disagree, sing and ask questions, connect with artistic activism from East and West Germany. The East-West AG is stable.


17:00 - 23:00

Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (DARUM)

[EOL]. END OF LIFE

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performative installation in Virtual Reality

What remains of us in the world when we are gone? Can we even live forever in the privatised metaverse? In their artistic work, DARUM deal with death, loneliness and the lasting traces that people leave behind.


20:00

Eine Person sitzt barfuß mit Krücken an der Wand. Ein Lichtbild mit Blättern fällt auf ein Tuch im Hintergrund. Bühne I

from 12 years

Claire Cunningham

SONGS OF THE WAYFARER

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Dance / Performance

This solo by Claire Cunningham interweaves her life experience as a disabled person with her classical vocal training and experiences from the world of mountaineering. She asks: What does it mean to hike? To strive for heights? To keep going and, above all, to know when to turn back?


Fr 04.07.

10:00 - 18:00

FREISCHWIMMEN & Cheers for Fears & The Embassy

Symposium

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Symposium

Show some attitude! We are embarking on a search for new ways of resiliently promoting young talent and for community in times of isolation. This two-day symposium will forge the strongest weapon against pressure and hostility – artistic radicalism! Voices from Europe and beyond will be heard, providing encouragement and important insights.


15:00–18:00

Die Ost-West AG

Radikal Intuitiv und total regional

as part of Impulse Festival 2025

The Ost-West-AG is an NGO. The AG is interested in connections and disconnections between East and West and is actively involved in bringing artists from all over Germany together: They argue and cook, disagree, sing and ask questions, connect with artistic activism from East and West Germany. The East-West AG is stable.


17:00 - 23:00

Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (DARUM)

[EOL]. END OF LIFE

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performative installation in Virtual Reality

What remains of us in the world when we are gone? Can we even live forever in the privatised metaverse? In their artistic work, DARUM deal with death, loneliness and the lasting traces that people leave behind.


19:00

Eine Person sitzt barfuß mit Krücken an der Wand. Ein Lichtbild mit Blättern fällt auf ein Tuch im Hintergrund. Bühne I

from 12 years

Claire Cunningham

SONGS OF THE WAYFARER

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Dance / Performance

This solo by Claire Cunningham interweaves her life experience as a disabled person with her classical vocal training and experiences from the world of mountaineering. She asks: What does it mean to hike? To strive for heights? To keep going and, above all, to know when to turn back?


19:00

Studio Urbanistan

SOMEWHERE THERE'S WAR

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performance/Audio-Installation

Although many people in Germany have experienced war, this often remains unspeakable and invisible in everyday life. This walk-in, performative audio installation fills the gap between the portrayal of war in the news and films and the real experience: a gap between reality, experience and trauma.


21:00

les dramaturx

BITTERFIELDS

An activist research revue
as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performance
a magazine falls into the hands of les dramaturx alias Lynn Takeo Musiol and Christian Tschirner, in which right-wing authors present a realistic picture of the climate crisis and at the same time reveal how they are benefitting from it. Les dramaturx ask whether there is really a connection between the strengthening of the political right and climate change.

Sa 05.07.

10:00 - 18:00

FREISCHWIMMEN & Cheers for Fears & The Embassy

Symposium

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Symposium

Show some attitude! We are embarking on a search for new ways of resiliently promoting young talent and for community in times of isolation. This two-day symposium will forge the strongest weapon against pressure and hostility – artistic radicalism! Voices from Europe and beyond will be heard, providing encouragement and important insights.


14:00–18:00

Die Ost-West AG

Radikal Intuitiv und total regional

as part of Impulse Festival 2025

The Ost-West-AG is an NGO. The AG is interested in connections and disconnections between East and West and is actively involved in bringing artists from all over Germany together: They argue and cook, disagree, sing and ask questions, connect with artistic activism from East and West Germany. The East-West AG is stable.


15:00 - 23:00

Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (DARUM)

[EOL]. END OF LIFE

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performative installation in Virtual Reality

What remains of us in the world when we are gone? Can we even live forever in the privatised metaverse? In their artistic work, DARUM deal with death, loneliness and the lasting traces that people leave behind.


17:00

Studio Urbanistan

SOMEWHERE THERE'S WAR

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performance/Audio-Installation

Although many people in Germany have experienced war, this often remains unspeakable and invisible in everyday life. This walk-in, performative audio installation fills the gap between the portrayal of war in the news and films and the real experience: a gap between reality, experience and trauma.


20:30

Jen Rosenblit

ELSEWHERE RHAPSODY

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performance

In a vaguely Western landscape, Jen Rosenblit’s work explores the power of desire, boundaries and attractions, unavailability and the repetitions that help us to forget. He leads us along a poetic text in four loose chapters through disintegrating landscapes and condensed arrangements.


So 06.07.

15:00 - 23:00

Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (DARUM)

[EOL]. END OF LIFE

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performative installation in Virtual Reality

What remains of us in the world when we are gone? Can we even live forever in the privatised metaverse? In their artistic work, DARUM deal with death, loneliness and the lasting traces that people leave behind.


16:00

Studio Urbanistan

SOMEWHERE THERE'S WAR

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performance/Audio-Installation

Although many people in Germany have experienced war, this often remains unspeakable and invisible in everyday life. This walk-in, performative audio installation fills the gap between the portrayal of war in the news and films and the real experience: a gap between reality, experience and trauma.


19:00

Jen Rosenblit

ELSEWHERE RHAPSODY

as part of Impulse Festival 2025
Performance

In a vaguely Western landscape, Jen Rosenblit’s work explores the power of desire, boundaries and attractions, unavailability and the repetitions that help us to forget. He leads us along a poetic text in four loose chapters through disintegrating landscapes and condensed arrangements.


Di 08.07.

19:00

ROTTERDAM PRESENTA AND DANIEL DOMINGUEZ TERUEL

Earth Level Thinking

Performance/Installation

Earth Level Thinking is a performative research station in which political and musical listening reinforce each other. With climate change comes a transformation of landscapes, breaks and fissures in familiar ways of life, but also curiosity for radical reorganisation. What kind of landscapes are in store for us, and how do we want to encounter them?


Mi 09.07.

19:00

How did that go again?

Performing the Archive
as part of 25 Years of FFT
Vernissage and Party

At the end of our series in which we commemorated special moments from 25 FFT years, we invite you to the Theatre Museum. We talk about what it means to archive the independent performing arts. And we are celebrating the end of our anniversary season that played out under the motto “Only Together”.


Do 10.07.

20:00

ROTTERDAM PRESENTA AND DANIEL DOMINGUEZ TERUEL

Earth Level Thinking

Performance/Installation

Earth Level Thinking is a performative research station in which political and musical listening reinforce each other. With climate change comes a transformation of landscapes, breaks and fissures in familiar ways of life, but also curiosity for radical reorganisation. What kind of landscapes are in store for us, and how do we want to encounter them?


Fr 11.07.

20:00

ROTTERDAM PRESENTA AND DANIEL DOMINGUEZ TERUEL

Earth Level Thinking

Performance/Installation

Earth Level Thinking is a performative research station in which political and musical listening reinforce each other. With climate change comes a transformation of landscapes, breaks and fissures in familiar ways of life, but also curiosity for radical reorganisation. What kind of landscapes are in store for us, and how do we want to encounter them?


Sa 12.07.

18:00

Fifty Fifty presents: Zirkus Upsala

Circus

Street magazine fiftyfifty and Kinderstern e.V. present the Upsala Circus. The project, which began as a street children’s circus in St. Petersburg, is showing two pieces in a double feature this evening: Threads and Suitcases.


Sa 26.07.

17:00

Digital über Zoom
Chez Company

The Argonause reads travel diaries and postcards

as part of The Argonause
Talk

Travel signifies adventure, the desire for the unknown, a longing for the world. At the same time, we are acutely aware of the destructive effects of mass tourism on climate and environment. Together with Chez Company, we embark on a journey that explores the beginnings of tourism as well as climate-neutral opportunities that announce a new, responsible desire to travel. This event is about longing to travel.