Thursday, 6 June at 8:15 pm

Presentation (German) and Movie Screening (English)
memento. Leipzig / Kolonnadenstraße 1, on Dorotheenplatz
free admission

This Thursday evening memento. Leipzig Café DVD & Video Store will screen the Gene Kelly classic, “Singin’ in the Rain.”

The focus of cinema history this week is on American films of the 1950s, as part of the free series American Film History of Cinema: From Drive-ins, Sure Seaters, Musicals and CinemaScope.

Leipzig film scholar Claudia Cornelius presents these events with an introduction to the film, in German, followed by the film screening, in English.

Picture: Milo Winter's illustration for The Wolf and the Kid - by another famous storyteller...Aesop.

Who doesn’t love stories, fairytales, myths and legends? Although we all enjoy a trip to the cinema, theatre or opera, traditional storytelling when done by an expert can be more enthralling than any 3D blockbuster or costumed extravaganza.

Life-changing even.

This Friday, The English Room is very proud to host award-winning storyteller Michael Kerins.

With their blend of folktales and contemporary life, Michael’s stories thrill, entertain and affect people in ways they never expected.

After his stories, Michael often invites people to tell their own, and will certainly be happy to talk about his craft.

WHEN: Friday 7th June at 7pm!

WHERE: The English Room, 54 Kathe-Kollwitz-Str

I am very intrigued to see how the choreographers at Tanzoffensive will approach these topics. The Lofft always has very high quality performances…I can’t wait!  Here’s a quick highlight of what they have lined up:

Heimat+3, photo Stefan-Nöbel-Heise

Heimat + 3

Three people. Three stories that couldn’t be different and yet are one and the same. Dancers with and without disabilities examine the consequences of their pasts. We alternate between wonderful childhood memories and ones of deprivation. A flash of memory can save or destroy us. The dancers, themselves decide how they will be affected.

“The mixed-abled dance theater company of the villa is physical theater in the truest sense.” (From the Jury for winning the motion Leipzig Art Prize 2012)

CHOREOGRAPHY novel Windisch DANCERS Stefanie Berndt, Emilie slides, Lisa Zocher MUSIC / PIANO Franziska Tannert MUSIC / PIANO January forge ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE Heike Wenzel PRODUCTION MANAGER Marion Müller / Tanzlabor Leipzig

the sound of it, photo Jan Stradtmann

The Sound of It

THE SOUND OF IT is a piece about the hearing. The work focuses on the background of dance and choreography of the movement of sound in space.

THE SOUND OF IT explores the performative potential of noises. They become actors and choreographers. The audience follows the part-documentary soundtrack via headphones, while the space is recorded simultaneously by two performers. Thus, the project falls somewhere between dance and sound art. The documentary sounds were produced during a four day period at the LOFFT where extras performed a set choreography.

“On stimulating way stressful and a bit scary.” Taz

CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY Lucia Glass IDEA AND RESEARCH Lucia Glass with Manon Santkin WITH Maxwell McCarthy and extras Mathews ARTISTIC CONSULTING ENGINEER Florian Christian Valhi

www.luciaglass.com

Following the last performance in the PUBLIC TALK LOFFT-WG. Moderator: Dr. Thomas Kahlisch (director German Central Library for the Blind)

Particularly suitable for the blind and visually impaired. The performance takes place entirely in the dark.

Changeable Cohesion, photo Chintaka Thenuwara

Changeable Cohesion

Born into a period of civil war. Once familiar structures now involve risks and everyday moments can turn into unpredictable threats … How does a man  navigate when his environment no longer offers security? How fragile is existence? On the contrary, what unsuspected strengths and creative energies come forth?

The project TRANSITION DIN A 13 tanzcompany examined similar emotional circumstances in environments that are historically, socially and geographically distant from each other: Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Israel and Germany.

“DIN A 13 is pure avant-garde. Gerda König can do everything, ‘just not normal’. Exhibitionism and intelligence share the same wavelength. It goes beyond the cages and dances somewhere between São Paulo and Nairobi at the pleasure, ‘that normality just is what you make of it.’ “Dance

CHOREOGRAPHY Gerda König CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANCE Marc Stuhlmann DANCERS Suranga Bopitiya, Venuri Perera, Saman Pushpakumara, Nadeeka Tharangani, Mahesh Umagiliya, Thusitha Wimalasuriya MUSIC Harsha Makalande VIDEO & CULTURAL COACH Vishnu Vasu COSTUMES Nikita Deana LICHTDESIGN Ryan Holsinger & Gerda König LIGHT IN GERMANY Gerd Weidig PRODUCTION MANAGER Gustavo Fijalkow. Based on the concept of transition Gerda König and Gustavo Fijalkow

Along side the performances are must see films at Prager Frühling. My advice? book your tickets in advance. Some performances are already sold out!