Dates

Recap – The 2022 program

With more than 20 artistic positions in the form of performances in the circus tent, site-specific performances, performative exhibitions, and an evening film program in the open-air cinema, the CircusDanceFestival invited the audience from 02nd to 06th June, 2022 to discover artists, who present the experimental field of contemporary circus forms and highly physical forms of dance and performance. HERE is the 2022 program, part of which can be viewed in digital form in the CDFthek.

Save the date for next year: May 25th to 29th, 2023

About the festival

The CircusDanceFestival is a nationwide lighthouse project dedicated to the visualization of current performative forms and discourses in the field of contemporary circus and dance. As a model institution networked throughout Europe, the concept is based on a combination of an annual festival in Cologne, a discipline-specific residency and co-production program, the promotion of youth and young talent, international cooperation between dance and circus universities, the organization of regular professional symposia, and the publication of the magazine VOICES for academic discourse.

The CircusDanceFestival was initiated by the company Overhead Project as part of the excellence promotion program TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and is under the overall artistic direction of the label. TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund is a joint initiative of municipalities, federal states and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media to promote excellence in dance.