Impulse Festival 2025
for Performance, Theater & Dance
03.07. – 06.07.2025
For more than 30 years, the NRW KULTURsekretariat’s Impulse has been one of the most important festivals for the independent theatre scene in the German-speaking world. Impulse has often reinvented itself and thus also reflects developments in the independent performing arts. What remains constant: The festival presents noteworthy productions of the year from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region) and thus gives visibility to the outstanding works of the independent theatre scene. It invites a broad audience to encounter innovative and transdisciplinary working methods and aesthetics in performance, theatre and dance and thus reflects contemporary developments.
In September 2024, dramaturge and curator Franziska Werner took over as festival director. The festival name has been changed: From 2025, Impulse will operate under the name Impulse Festival for Performance, Theatre & Dance, thus taking into account the close connection and often blurred boundaries between the artistic genres in works by the independent scene.
The festival will close at the FFT between 3 and 6 July – with performances by Claire Cunningham, Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (Darum), Jen Rosenblit, Studio Urbanistan and others – and with talks, parties and music.
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The Impulse Festival 2025 is organised and funded by NRW KULTURsekretariat together with the cities of Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne and Düsseldorf and in co-operation with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, studiobühneköln and FFT Düsseldorf.
The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
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