Productions from the 2023/2024 season

Der Nussknacker | The Nutcracker | De Notenkraker
World premiere: 14.10.2023
Choreography: United Cowboys (Pauline Roelants and Maarten van der Put) (Netherlands)
Music: Pauline Roelants
30 dancers
Stage: Opera House, ANTIPOLIS
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes, no intermission

Die Hamletmaschine
World premiere: 09.03.2024
Choreography: Valentin Alfery (Austria)
Music: Wolfgang Rihm
20 dancers
Stage: Opera House, ANTIPOLIS

Winterwende | Winter Solstice
World premiere: 04.05.2024
Choreography: Kristel van Issum (Netherlands) and Anat Oz (Israel)
Music: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, François Couperin, Johann Joseph Vilsmayr and others.
20 dancers
Stage: Schauspielhaus

Tanzreihe im TiF - Season 3: Let's Talk About Sacre
Letzter Frühling | Last Spring | אביב אחרון (UA)
World premiere: 29.06.2024
Choreography: Yossi Berg and Oded Graf (Israel)
Music: Igor Stravinsky
8 dancers
Stage: TiF - Theater im Fridericianum

Dornröschen | Sleeping Beauty
Dawn and Day
World premiere: 5.3.2022
Revival: 15.12.2023
Choreography: Sita Ostheimer
Music: Adrien Casalis
14 dancers
Stage: Schauspielhaus
Duration: 45 minutes, no intermission

Productions from the 2022/2023 season

PREMIERES

Dornröschen | Sleeping Beauty | A Bela Adormecida (UA)
Double dance evening with the debut performances 100 Years 100 Hearts by Liliana Barros and Dawn and Day by Sita Ostheimer
Premiere: 22.10.2022
Choreography: Liliana Barros (Portugal/Germany) and Sita Ostheimer (Germany)
Music: Martin Mitterstieler, Adrien Casalis
20 dancers
Stage dimensions: Schauspielhaus | 15.50 m wide, 11 m deep
Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes, one intermission

Urlicht | Primal Light | πρωταρχικό φως (UA)
Premiere: 28.01.2023
Choreography: Andonis Foniadakis (Greece)
Music: Julien Tarride
20 dancers
Stage dimensions: Opernhaus | 24.5 m wide, 15 m deep
Duration: approx. 1 hour 10 minutes, no intermission

Dance series at TiF - Season 2:
Let's Talk About Bodies in Space
Premiere: 10.03.2023
Choreography: dancers of TANZ_KASSEL
Music: Donato Deliano a.o.
12 dancers
Stage dimensions: TiF - Theater im Fridericianum | 14 wide, 12.50 m deep

Battleground
Double dance evening with the debut performances CELL | ZELLE by Hou Ying and धर्म | DHARMA by Ashley Lobo
Premiere: 24.06.2023
Choreography: Hou Ying (China) and Ashley Lobo (India)
Music: randomhype (Christian Düchtel), Donato Deliano
20 dancers
Stage dimensions: Schauspielhaus | 15.50 m wide, 11 m deep
Duration: approx. 2 ½ hours, one intermission

REVIVALS

Janus
Premiere: 05.03.2022
Revival: 12.11.2022
Choreography: Noa Wertheim (Israel)
Music: randomhype (Christian Düchtel)
18 dancers
Stage dimensions: Opernhaus | 24.5 m wide, 15 m deep
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes, no intermission

Dance Series at TiF - Season 1: Let's Talk About Sex
1 9 7 6 2 – solos y conectados | lonesome and connected | einsam gebunden
Premiere: 18.06.2022
Revival: 08.04.2023
Guest performances at: Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf 01./02.04.2023 | Teatro Central Sevilla 05./06.05.2023
Choreography: Candela Capitán (Spain)
Music: Isabella Gutierrez, Donato Deliano
6 dancers
Stage dimensions: TiF - Theater im Fridericianum | 14 wide, 12.50 m deep
Duration: 45 minutes, no intermission

Schwanensee | Zwanenmeer |           (UA)
Dance double evening with the world premieres body#whatever by Roni Chadash (Israel) and Reminition*Swanlake by the United Cowboys (Netherlands)
Music by Bernard Herrmann, Jean Sibelius, Peter I. Tchaikovsky, Nate Young,
Chris Isaak
Live sound and sound landscapes: Pauline Roelants
World premiere: 26 September 2021, Staatstheater Kassel, Schauspielhaus
Number of participating dancers: 18
Stage dimensions: 15.50 m wide, 11 m deep
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes, one intermission

Janus (UA) by Noa Wertheim (Israel)
Sound design: Randomhype
World premiere: March 5, 2022, Staatstheater Kassel, Opera House
Number of participating dancers: 20
Stage dimensions: 24.5 m wide, 15 m deep
Duration: 70 minutes, no intermission

i spada lekko ciało moje | my body falls lighter | mein körper schwerelos (UA)
by Maciej Kuźmiński (Poland)
Music by Lepo Sumera and John Adams
with the Staatsorchester Kassel, musical direction: Mario Hartmuth
First performance premiere: April 29, 2022, Staatstheater Kassel, Opera House
Number of participating dancers: 20
Stage dimensions: 24.5 m wide, 15 m deep
Duration: approx. 90 minutes, one intermission

Dance series at TiF: SEASON 1: LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX

Stilte | Silence | Stille (UA) by Kristel van Issum (Netherlands)
Sadim |        by Sahar Damoni (Palestine)
Sound design and composition: Donato Deliano
Double premiere: December 3, 2021, Staatstheater Kassel, TiF - Theater im Fridericianum
Number of participating dancers: 12
Stage dimensions: 14 wide, 12.50 m deep
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes, one intermission

1 9 7 6 2 (premiere) by Candela Capitán (Spain)
Sound design and composition: Donato Deliano
Premiere June 18, 2022, Staatstheater Kassel, TiF - Theater im Fridericianum
Number of participating dancers: 6
Stage dimensions: 14 wide, 12.50 m deep
Duration: still unknown

Interdisciplinary projects

Oh yeah, baby
A (mobile) disco piece for everyone from 2 years onwards
Adoption of the world premiere of Theater Oberhausen
Direction and choreography: Leandro Kees
Music and sound: Martin Rascher
Premiere: October 3, 2021, Staatstheater Kassel, TiF - Theater im Fridericianum
Number of participating dancers: 2
Stage dimensions: 14 wide, 12.50 m deep
Duration: 35 minutes

Blitze sprechen Deutsch (UA)
Opera by Felix Leuschner after a text by Dietmar Dath
with the State Orchestra Kassel, musical direction: Francesco Angelico
Director: Florentine Klepper
Premiere: June 4, 2022, Staatstheater Kassel, Opera House
Number of dancers: 4
Stage dimensions: 24.5 m wide, 15 m deep
Duration: still unknown

Temple of alternative histories (UA)
An interdisciplinary project by Anna Rún Trygvadóttir and Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson
with the Staatsorchester Kassel, musical direction: Mario Hartmuth
Premiere: July 9, 2022, Kassel State Theater, Opera House
Number of participating dancers: 14
Stage dimensions: 24.5 m wide, 15 m deep
Duration: currently unknown

Productions from the 2019/2020 season

fin de siècle – a double-evening with MEDUSA IN CATHEDRAL by Lenka Vagnerová and CATHEDRAL OF ATOMS by Johannes Wieland
Premiere on 2 November 2019
Choreography: Lenka Vagnerová and Johannes Wieland
Composition MEDUSA IN CATHEDRAL: Andrej Jurkovič, sounddesign: Donato Deliano
10 dancers
Acting stage: 10 x 10 m
Duration: 2 h 10 min, including 30 min intermission

die entfaltung
Premiere on 21 March 2020
Choreography: Johannes Wieland
Sounddesign: Donato Deliano
14 Dancers
Opera stage: 15 x 18 m
Duration: tba

Choreographische Werkstatt
Premiere on 27. Juni 2020
Choreography: dancers from the Staatstheater Kassel ensemble
Further Information not yet available.

Productions from the 2017/2018 season
marianengraben
Choreography: Johannes Wieland
 

you will be removed
Choreography: Johannes Wieland
 

EMOJI   

IKIMONO   
Choreography: Annamari Keskinen 

I SHARE THEREFORE I AM   
Choreography: Evangelos Poulinas

erzengel   

AFTER LETHE   
Choreography: Maxine Doyle  

EREIGNISHORIZONT   
Choreography: Johannes Wielan

Productions from the 2014/2015 and 2013/2014 season

Choreografische Werkstatt 2015

Made with and by the members of the Dance Company of the Staatstheater Kassel 

Aurora (2015)
Choreography: Johannes Wieland, music: Sleeping Beauty of Peter Tschaikowsky with Staatsorchester Kassel, musical direction: Yoel Gamzou

DOG | science! fiction! now! (2014)
Choreography DOG: Hofesh Shechter
Choreography science! fiction! now!: Johannes Wieland

Choreografische Werkstatt (2014)
Made with and by the members of the Dance Company of the Staatstheater Kassel 

100000 superstars (2014)
Choreography: Styliani Zannou, Helge Letonja, Johnnes Wieland

ich bin du (2013)

Choreography: Johannes Wieland