PREMIERE of "Blueprint" in March 2024 in Leipzig & Cologne

We are happy to invite you to the premiere of our newest production on Friday, March 8th, 2024 at LOFFT – DAS THEATER in Leipzig! "Blueprint" plays with gestures of invitation, confron-tation and provocation. In this extraordinary pas de deux, dancer Mijin Kim and acrobat Leon Börgens move through human patterns of encounter and intimacy. With humor and an unusual repertoire of movements, they traverse a playing field of trust in order to strike the right note with each other.

Further dates are:

• March 9th & 10th, 2024 – LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Leipzig
• March 15th & 16th, 2024 – studiobühneköln / TanzFaktur, Köln (NRW premiere)
• May 16th, 17th & 18th, 2024 – CircusDanceFestival, Köln

Read more about the production & all performance dates.

NRW top funding dance 2024-26 for Overhead Project

We are delighted that we as a company will continue to be supported by NRW's top-level funding program in the years 2024 to 2026 and that we were selected by the expert jury, consisting of the Ministry of Culture and four dance experts, from a total of 25 applications with the following jury statement (excerpt, in German):

"With its work at the intersection between contemporary circus and dance, Overhead Project takes an outstanding position nationwide. Through its productions, workshop formats and cultural policy positioning, the company has significantly and sustainably strengthened the role of contemporary circus and dance locally, nationally and internationally. The Circus Dance Festival, curated by Tim Behren, also makes a relevant contribution here, establishing an important platform for the visualization of current aesthetics and discourses in both disciplines. (...)

Cologne Dance Theater Prize 2023 for "What is left"

THANK YOU to our team & the many partners that accompanied the production – we are very proud of the Tanztheaterpreis 2023 for "What is left", which we received on December 4th, and congratulate all nominees & award winners!

"... this carrying, throwing, falling and being caught points to the fact that social interaction is not possible without trust and mutual care. A great production, congratulations from the jury." – excerpt from the laudation of this year's jury (Thomas Linden, Dr. Ruth Prangen & Jenny Patschovsky)

Sold-out Cologne premiere of "Greenroom" at Zeit für Zirkus 2023!

We celebrated the Cologne premiere of “Greenroom” as part of Zeit für Zirkus – on two evenings in a sold-out tent! The decentralised festival for contemporary circus will take place this November 17-19, 2023. The German counterpart to the French La Nuit du Cirque aims to help contemporary circus gain more visibility in the cultural scene and beyond. To the Cologne ZfZ program

LATIBUL Circus – An der Schanz 6, 50735 Cologne

• Friday, November 17th, 2023 | 8:30 pm – Tickets
• Saturday, November 18th, 2023 | 8:30 pm – Tickets

Review: CircusDanceFestival program 2023

A wonderful CircusDanceFestival 2023 lies behind us: It was about the political body, our relation to human and non-human bodies, our relation to architectures and our physical environment. Overhead Project showed "What is left" twice as a Cologne premiere.

Here you can browse through the program 2023 again or get some visual impressions in the archive. During the summer break, the CDFthek is also happy to provide you with exciting input on the topics of contemporary circus and dance, e.g. with films, talks or articles.

UK Tour in March 2023

"I think it is safe to say the audiences were blown away. I myself found it to be a perfect blend of skill, accessible contemporary work, dance, acrobatics and humour." (Adrian Berry, Artistic Director Jacksons Lane)

In March 2023 we travel to the UK for the first time with the company and showed our production of "What is left" at the Lowry in Salford, Circomedia in Bristol and Jacksons Lane in London. We are still overwhelmed with the warm welcome and great feedback we got from the British audience – a big thank you to all who made the tour happening!

The production "What is left" explores spatial structures that shape human communication culture. It shows the brutal beauty of frontality and the everyday social fashionwalks of this world. Read more

Newest Production "Greenroom" premiered on March 3rd, 2023

Our latest production "Greenroom" has successfully premiered at the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr on March 03 & 04, 2023!

In "Greenroom" four performers enter a constantly changing space between wood workshop, physical experimental field and exhibition. A place manifests itself where nothing is as expected and nothing remains as it was. By and with Breno Caetano, Tim Behren, Charlotte Ducousso, Simon Bauer. Read more

Out and Around - 5 years EinTanzHaus Mannheim

A project created in front of the audience's eyes: From September 12 to 17, 20 artists from Mannheim and all over Europe from the fields of dance, contemporary circus, physical theater, music, visual arts and architecture meet on the forecourt of Mannheim's EinTanzHaus. For several days, they will improvise, create and research together and in public as part of the Out and Around Outdoor Creation Summit. This process is accompanied by Overhead Project (Tim Behren & Breno Caetano).

Publication "Circus in flux" released

The CircusDanceFestival (deputy Tim Behren & Jenny Patschovsky) released a workbook under the title "Circus in flux - Zeitgenössischer Zirkus | Contemporary Circus"! It was published July 1st, 2022 by Verlag Theater der Zeit and can be ordered now.

Tabori Award of the Fonds Darstellende Künste for the Company

The jury decided: "This honors a unique signature of the merging of contemporary dance and contemporary circus, creating a performative language of its own that makes a special contribution to both establishing and communicating the formats and their differentiated thematic worlds." (translated excerpt from the jury statement)

Adaptation of "What is left" with students at IMPACTZONE 22

In March 2022, an adaptation of the piece "What is left" was staged as part of this year's IMPACTZONE in Cologne. The series shows choreographies by international artists, staged and performed by students of the ZZT at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (HfMT).

Unexpectedly weightless: Overhead Project in the Kulturkenner-Portrait

"New circus is a genre between art and entertainment, between awakening and tradition, between physicality and partly topical issues" – this is what Tim Behren says as artistic director of Overhead Project in an interview with Kulturkenner NRW.