Stadt. Land. Bühne.

Something is missing in the princess’s life. A great, lingering boredom has crept in—until her servant pulls out a book, begins to read, and she suddenly finds herself immersed in the story. She encounters a hare and a vagabond who claim to be knights and to possess “lucky turnips.” But reality turns out differently, and after a series of entanglements, the three of them find themselves in the dungeon of a king who hoards all happiness in his chest.

An imaginative theatre piece about true happiness. For children aged three and up.

Accepdance embodies a powerful fusion of dance, music and attitude. Blending classical influences with electronic beats, it creates a space where young people from Upper Lusatia can express themselves through dance and overcome barriers together.

Dancer Katja Erfurth delves into memories of her time as a young performer, accompanied by a life-sized puppet representing an old woman. A homage to dance across all generations. The puppet was created by figure maker and puppeteer Sabine Köhler. Violinist Florian Mayer composed original music for "reminiszenz".

Lambe Lambe is a storytelling format inside a box - a mini theatre for one person. Audience members receive a pair of headphones and, one at a time, look through a peephole into the interior of a portable box. Inside, they discover an unpredictable miniature world full of surprises for three to five minutes - performed live.

In Görlitz, no fewer than four different Lambe Lambe pieces can be experienced: four distinct short stories, performative styles, and secrets.

The dance piece "zeitsprünge" by Katja Erfurth is inspired by the mask dances of Mary Wigman as well as music by Erwin Schulhoff. The dancer Mary Wigman and the composer Erwin Schulhoff might have encountered one another in Dresden in the 1920s. What connected them was the search for answers to existential questions of being. Dance and music are the languages that connect times—up to the present day.

For the dance piece "zeitsprünge", Sabine Köhler created the mask and Magdalene Buschbeck the costume. Florian Mayer performs the Sonata for Solo Violin by Erwin Schulhoff.

Through a cable connection, a conversation unfolds about personal and political inadequacies - told through telephone music, queer perspectives, and world-weary partner acrobatics. Blue is our state of being. Having grown up in a time in which hopelessness colors everything, we turn these insights upside down - because something remains that wants to persist. A survival instinct, tender and defiant. Perhaps even beautiful.

From 8.00 pm, the theatre forecourt turns into a silent disco: grab some wireless headphones and choose from a range of music channels – from electronic beats and classics to surprising sounds. You decide what you listen to, whilst people dance to all sorts of different rhythms around you.

A circus wagon rolls in and comes to a jerking stop. The animal performers of Circus Gockelini present their show, where the audience marvels at rare, hand-carved trick marionettes. The frogs lead the program with esprit, a dancing goose has a surprise in store, and the magnificent ringmaster enchants the audience on her tightrope. But the show must come to an unexpected end. What happens next? Experience it in the breathtaking show of the wonderful Circus Gockelini!

Immediately afterwards, all children are warmly invited to make their own sock puppets with the artist.

Sometimes it takes just a single movement for the (inner) world to become something else—at times even to slip out of control. What now: resist, step away, endure, go along? Only later does it become clear how forces are redistributed. A different picture emerges. Do you like this new perspective, or do you want to move (yourself)?

A movement research project by Teresa Stelzer set to double bass improvisations by Jonas Gerigk, in which material, body, and sound transform in relation to one another.

Accepdance embodies a powerful fusion of dance, music and attitude. Blending classical influences with electronic beats, it creates a space where young people from Upper Lusatia can express themselves through dance and overcome barriers together.

A circus wagon rolls in and comes to a jerking stop. The animal performers of Circus Gockelini present their show, where the audience marvels at rare, hand-carved trick marionettes. The frogs lead the program with esprit, a dancing goose has a surprise in store, and the magnificent ringmaster enchants the audience on her tightrope. But the show must come to an unexpected end. What happens next? Experience it in the breathtaking show of the wonderful Circus Gockelini!

Immediately afterwards, all children are warmly invited to make their own sock puppets with the artist.

“Der Fremde in mir” is a partly autofictional staged reading/dance/performance in which Philipp Grimm explores questions of identity, self-determination, and the resurgence of far-right movements and their origins - on both a physical and textual level. Drawing on his own biography, he develops and extends it within his narrative, offering the audience an impression of what young people experience in connection with the “right-wing scene.”

"Home?" is a humorous, non-verbal one-person clown theatre piece about searching for, finding, and losing a sense of home. Through clowning, mask work, and object theatre, it unfolds into an imaginative, comic, and poetic exploration of what “home” feels like.

The dance performance "Karussell der Zeit" is a performatively guided walk that relates the pace of public space to one’s own perception of time. Equipped with headphones, the audience embarks on a sensory journey in which fragments of text, sounds, and movement merge into an atmospheric landscape. The staging adds layers of thought and detail to familiar places, inviting participants to rediscover public space as a boundless stage.

Sometimes it takes just a single movement for the (inner) world to become something else—at times even to slip out of control. What now: resist, step away, endure, go along? Only later does it become clear how forces are redistributed. A different picture emerges. Do you like this new perspective, or do you want to move (yourself)?

A movement research project by Teresa Stelzer set to double bass improvisations by Jonas Gerigk, in which material, body, and sound transform in relation to one another.

From 8.00 pm, the theatre forecourt turns into a silent disco: grab some wireless headphones and choose from a range of music channels – from electronic beats and classics to surprising sounds. You decide what you listen to, whilst people dance to all sorts of different rhythms around you.