Productions from the 2023/2024 season

TRANSIT
Dance evening by Wagner Moreira
Premiere 14.10.23
Music by Osvaldo Golijov
In English, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic with German surtitles
Musical direction: Tom Woods
Staging: Wagner Moreira
Choreography: Wagner Moreira, Tanzcompany Theater Regensburg
Choreographic collaboration: María Bayarri Pérez
Set design: Kristopher Kempf
Video: Steffen Cieplik Steffen Cieplik
Lighting: Wagner Moreira, Martin Stevens
Dramaturgy: Esther von der Fuhr
10 dancers: Vittoria Carpegna, Bérénice Durozey, Pedro Henrique Ferreira, Momoe Kawamura, Fátima López García, Natsuho Matsumoto, Win McCain, Leander Veizi, Vincent Wodrich, Chih-Yuan Yang
Vocals (mezzo-soprano): Svitlana Slyvia
13 musicians:
1st VIOLINE Brunhild Haida / Beatrix Leinhäupl
2nd VIOLINE Dong-Ae Han / Tilmann Kay
VIOLA Daniela Pletschacher / Matthias Rosenfelder / Helena Pilipovic
VIOLONCELLO Tomasz Skweres / Joanna Sachryn
CONTRABASS Frank Wittich / Andreas Brand
FLUTE Gabriella Damkier / Mathilde Leleu
CLARINET Michael Wolf / Susanne Strelow
HORN Gabriel Maul / Noé Leander Lehmann / Michael Scharfetter
DRUM Werner Borst / Jens Krahl
HARP Claudia Broy
GUITAR Radmila Besic
ACCORDEON Konstantin Ischenko / Marko Trivunovic
ELECTRONIC PERFORMANCE Tom Woods
Stage dimensions: approx. 14 x 14 m
Venue: Bismarckplatz
Duration: approx. 85 minutes
Summary: The lives of many artists are characterised by an existence between two worlds, two cultures, the old and the new home, the place of longing and the place of being. They are constantly "in transit", in transition between arriving and leaving - an existential experience of uprooting and being torn apart, which is often reflected in their artistic work. External and internal upheavals characterise our age of restless movement, which is associated with ambivalent feelings of liberation and desire, longing and melancholy, worry and fear. In addition to various facets of the transitional, Wagner Moreira's production addresses the joyful and painful experiences of constant change as well as the search for belonging - to people and places.
The dance evening develops around the music of Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov (*1960). Based on his own biographical and geographical experience, he succeeds in his works (including AYRE) in a virtuoso way in creating a connection between different countries, landscapes and cultures and dissolving borders.

Productions from the 2022/2023 season

MASSA MOBIL
Dance performance in public space by Wagner Moreira
Premiere: 23.9.22
Concept, choreography, set, costumes: Wagner Moreira
Choreographic assistance, rehearsal director: María Bayarri Pérez
Dance: Vittoria Carpegna, Pedro Henrique Ferreira, Momoe Kawamura, Fátima López García, Win McCain, Leander Veizi, Bérénice Durozey, Chih-Yuan Yang, Vincent Wodrich, Natsuho Matsumoto
Stage dimensions: approx. 10 x 10 m
Venue: urban space
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Summary: Haidplatz, Steinerne Brücke or Stadtpark: with the performance MASSA MOBIL, the dance company conquers Regensburg's urban space.
In an open process, ten dancers create individual choreographic miniatures that explore different processes of change in ever-changing venues. Being "on the move" together with the audience creates opportunities for encounters and exchange. Beyond cultural and physical barriers, dance is intuitively accessible to all people and has great social potential as a means of communication and integration.
In the encounter between art and everyday life, MASSA MOBIL opens up new spaces for thought and different perspectives. Alternating between solo and ensemble scenes, quiet moments of vulnerability and impulsive fast dance sequences, the dancers develop a varied performance full of dynamism and emotion, playfully involving the audience in a collective dance at the end - a society in motion.

I PLAY D(E)AD
Solo dance performance by Wagner Moreira
Premiere: 25.9.22
Concept, choreography, performance & set: Wagner Moreira
Dramaturgy: Thomas Schütt, Esther von der Fuhr
Video: Petros Kolotouros
Lighting: David Herzog
ME: Wagner Moreira
Stage dimensions: approx. 10 x 6 m
Venue: Haidplatz
Duration: 60 minutes
Content: In the 23rd year after the suicide of his own father, Wagner Moreira celebrates 30 years of his dance career and his 45th birthday to boot. The coincidence of these events moves him once again to confront the taboo of suicide in a solo, but without losing sight of life and the power and beauty of the moment. In his performance, Wagner Moreira approaches this difficult topic with both lightness and thoughtfulness, giving the audience space for their own feelings and thoughts.
In an emotional balancing act between the death of his father and his own "desire to learn to die", Wagner Moreira opens up a poetic scenario in his solo to music by Erik Satie about piety and humility, determination and joie de vivre, touching on the great philosophical questions of our lives.
The solo I PLAY D(E)AD premiered at the Projekttheater Dresden in 2017 and was awarded the Saxon Dance Prize "Ursula Cain Förderpreis" 2019.
I PLAY D(E)AD wants to learn how to die by dancing - and yet celebrate life.

INSIDEOUT
Dance piece by Wagner Moreira (10 +)
Premiere: 23.10.22
Production, set: Wagner Moreira
Choreography: Wagner Moreira, Tanzcompany
Choreographic assistance: María Bayarri Pérez
Lighting: Wagner Moreira, Simon Opitz
Dramaturgy: Esther von der Fuhr
Dance: Vittoria Carpegna, Momoe Kawamura, Leander Veizi, Vincent Wodrich
Stage dimensions: approx. 6 x 8 m
Venue: Young Theatre
Duration: 55 minutes
Summary: We communicate every day, not just with words. Sometimes a single look or a grimace, a gesture or even just a sound is enough to be understood or misunderstood by the other person. Our body language reveals much more than we realise. Four dancers try to make contact in different ways. New spaces and situations are constantly created in the playful dance with stage objects that sometimes form a catwalk, sometimes an aquarium. The dancers are constantly confronted with new, visible and invisible boundaries and search for moments of exchange, independence or cohesion. The audience is part of the game. They can react to the spatial changes at any time, searching for common ground and opportunities for exchange - even if this requires a change of position or side. In this way, contemporary dance can be experienced by a young audience in a playful way...Who is inside? Who is outside? Where is the boundary? And who decides?

MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES
Tango-Operita by Astor Piazzolla
Premiere: 25.2.23
Revival: 18.11.23
Music by Astor Piazzolla
Libretto by Horacio Ferrer
German version by Christian Lehnert
In Spanish and German with German surtitles
Musical direction: Andreas Kowalewitz
Staging: Sommer Ulrickson
Choreography: Sommer Ulrickson, María Bayarri Pérez, Tanzcompany Theater Regensburg
Choreographic assistance & evening theatre management: María Bayarri Pérez
Set design: Mireia Vila Soriano, Alexander Polzin
Lighting: Martin Stevens
Dramaturgy: Esther von der Fuhr
10 dancers:
EL DUENDE | NARRATOR Thomas Mehlhorn
MARÍA | THE SHADOW OF MARIA Fabiana Locke | Pedro Henrique Ferreira, Vittoria Carpegna, Bérénice Durozey, Hector Ferrer Fernandez, Corina Hoser, Momoe Kawamura, Fátima López García, Natsuho Matsumoto, Win McCain, Leander Veizi , Vincent Wodrich, Chih-Yuan Yang
THE VOICE OF A PAYADOR | NARRATOR Carlos Moreno Pelizari | Juan Carlos Falcón
PORTEÑO GORRIÓN | NARRATOR Alejandro Nicolás Firlei Fernández
LADRÓN | NARRATOR Felix Rabas
FIRST PSYCHOANALYST Carlos Moreno Pelizari | Juan Carlos Falcón
A VOICE OF THE SUNDAY Alejandro Nicolás Firlei Fernández
CHORUS Alejandro Nicolás Firlei Fernández, Carlos Moreno Pelizari| Juan Carlos Falcón, Felix Rabas, Tanzcompany Theater Regensburg
11 musicians
1. VIOLINE Sándor Galgóczi / Andrei Ciobanu
2. VIOLINE Dong-Ae Han / Kristin Schorr
VIOLA Daniela Pletschacher / Katharina Hippert
VIOLONCELLO Johannes Klier / Armand Fauchère
CONTRABASS Berkcan Ertan / Frank Wittich
FLUTE Gabriella Damkier / Mathilde Leleu
ACCORDEON Konstantin Ischenko
GUITAR Thomas Etschmann / Andreas Blüml
STABBSPIELE Jens Krahl
DRUM Werner Borst
PLAYER Andreas Kowalewitz
1 actor, 4 singers
Stage dimensions: approx. 13 x 13 m
Venue: Bismarckplatz
Duration: 90 minutes
Summary: With MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES, Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) composed a declaration of love to the tango and to his home city of Buenos Aires, which takes on a human form in the title character María, the city saint who originally gave the work its name.
María is both a saint and a sinner, desired and abandoned, a lover and a sufferer, caught in a web of violence, sexuality, longings and fantasies. Her existence between illusion and reality is as multifaceted as the history of this city and its inhabitants - a story of the eternal cycle of becoming and passing away again.
With MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES, Piazzolla did not create a conventional opera, but instead cleverly interwove acting, singing and dancing with the various styles of tango nuevo. The revue, which premiered in 1968, is based on texts by the lyricist Horacio Ferrer.
Sommer Ulrickson understands Piazzolla's MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES as a projection screen for longings and hopes. In her production, she picks up on the various levels of the metaphorical imagery and reveals the hidden layers of the work.

LOVE LETTERS
Dance evening by Wagner Moreira
Premiere: 14.4.23
Production: Wagner Moreira
Choreography: Wagner Moreira, Tanzcompany Theater Regensburg
Choreographic assistance: María Bayarri Pérez
Set: Kristopher Kempf
Lighting: Wanja Ostrower
Sound design: Wagner Moreira
Dramaturgy: Esther von der Fuhr
CUPIDO: Vincent Wodrich
Dance: Vittoria Carpegna, Bérénice Durozey, Pedro Henrique Ferreira, Momoe Kawamura, Fátima López García, Natsuho Matsumoto, Win McCain, Leander Veizi, Chih-Yuan Yang
Voices (recording): Kathrin Berg, Thomas Mehlhorn
Stage dimensions: approx. 12 x 10 m
Venue: Antoniushaus
Duration: 80 minutes
Summary: Many of us still know it: the feeling of excitement and self-consciousness that comes over us when we pull an old love letter out of the drawer after many years and start to read it.
The rapture, the passionate and unrestrained ardour or even the abysmal suffering that can be felt in almost every line makes you wonder: did I write letters like that back then? And could I still do it today: write so openly about my feelings, even if it makes me vulnerable?
Love letters bear witness to intense feelings. They reflect the state between fulfilment and lack, happiness and pain. How should, how can you put these intense feelings into honest words without using empty phrases that everyone finds bland and knows? And how do today's digital love messages differ from the love letters written on paper and by hand in the "good old days"?
We want to explore these feelings and questions in the dance evening LOVE LETTERS - with the same melancholy lightness with which Leonard Cohen once sang about the phases of love and a relationship in DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE.

DANCE LAB
Young choreographers' dance evening
Premiere: 26.5.23
Choreographies by Bérénice Durozey, Pedro Henrique Ferreira, Natshuo Matsumoto, Win McCain, Leander Veizi, Vincent Wodrich, Chih-Yuan Yang
Artistic direction: Wagner Moreira
Choreography & set design: Tanzcompany Theater Regensburg
Lighting: Leo Moro
Dramaturgy: Esther von der Fuhr
Choreographic assistance: María Bayarri Pérez
Summary: The DANCE LAB format gives the ensemble's dancers the space and opportunity to further develop their individual artistic signature, realise their own choreographic ideas and present themselves to the audience in the role of choreographer. As diverse as the cultural and artistic backgrounds of the members of the international ensemble are, so too are the initial ideas and themes of the choreographies that are performed in DANCE LAB. The young choreographers are faced with the creative task of exploring the season's motto TRUTHS and taking responsibility for the stage and costumes.
EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES
A play about life, about the fragile balance between attraction and repulsion, suffering and comfort in a relationship.
Choreography & set design: Vincent Wodrich
Dance: Natsuho Matsumoto, Leander Veizi
A STEP BACKWARDS
Two people who take a courageous "step backwards" to find new perspectives.
Choreography & set: Natsuho Matsumoto
Dance: Momoe Kawamura, Chih-Yuan Yang
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
A piece that focuses on the actors behind the stage.
Choreography & set design: Win McCain
Dance: Bérénice Durozey, Natsuho Matsumoto, Vincent Wodrich
REMEMBRANCE
REMEMBRANCE is about people who cross our path in the course of our lives and influence us in one way or another. Some stay longer, some pass by almost unnoticed and some we prefer to let go.
Choreography & set design: Pedro Henrique Ferreira
Dance: Vittoria Carpegna, Pedro Henrique Ferreira, Leander Veizi
JUST A SECOND LONGER
The piece shows moments of an intense relationship - and the realisation that saying goodbye is a lifelong learning process.
Choreography & set design: Chih-Yuan Yang
Dance: Momoe Kawamura, Chih-Yuan Yang, Vincent Wodrich, Win McCain, Natsuho Matsumoto
NORMAL PEOPLE
What does it mean for two young adults to be "normal" and conform to social norms?
Choreography & set design: Bérénice Durozey
Dance: Bérénice Durozey, Win McCain
ICH UND WIR
Who am I? Who are we? What connects us? What scares us? What moves us? What makes us unique? What makes us human?
Choreography & set design: Leander Veizi
Dance: Vittoria Carpegna, Vincent Wodrich, Fátima López García
Stage dimensions: approx. 10 x 6 m
Venue: Haidplatz
Duration: 95 minutes

Productions from the 2021/2022 season

Mozart Mozart (2022)
Premiere: 30.04.2022
Choreography and direction: Luca Signoretti, Georg Reischl
Choreographic assistance: Christian Maier
Music: Mozart String Quintet No. 3 in C major, KV 515; Serenade No. 13 in G major "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", KV 525; Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV 550
Dancers: Laureen Olivia Drexler, Elisabet Morera Nadal, Rei Okunishi, Louisa Poletti, Giorgia Scisciola; Filippo Buonamassa, Alessio Burani, Bartłomiej Kowalczyk, Lucas Roque Machado, David Nigro, Tommaso Quartani.
Stage dimensions: approx. 13m x 12m
Venue: Theater am Bismarckplatz
Duration: approx. 1 hour, 45 minutes, incl. intermission

Tanz.Fabrik!neun (2022)
Premiere: 22.06.2022
Choreography: Ensemble Theater Regensburg Tanz, Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich
Ballet master and organisation: Christian Maier
Stage dimensions: approx. 10m x 10m
Venue: Theater im Antoniushaus
Duration: approx. 1 hour, 30 minutes, including intermission

Productions from the 2020/2021 season

Sand (2020)
Premiere: 31.10.2020
Choreography and production: Georg Reischl
Music by Nils Frahm: Says, Hammers, Familiar, Under - Tristana - Ambre, For - Peter -Toilet Brushes - More (2013 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.), It Was Really, Really Grey, Dedication, Loyalty, I Would Like To Think (2009 Erased Tapes Records)
Dancers:inside: Laureen Olivia Drexler, Elisabet Morera Nadal, Rei Okunishi, Louisa Poletti, Giorgia Scisciola; Filippo Buonamassa, Alessio Burani, Bartłomiej Kowalczyk, Lucas Roque Machado, David Nigro, Tommaso Quartani.
Stage dimensions: approx. 14m x 11m
Venue: Velodrom
Duration: approx. 1 hour

Summertime! (2021)
Premiere: 26.06.2021
Choreography and staging: Georg Reischl, Alessio Burani
Music: "Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons"; Daniel Hope; André De Ridder: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin; George Gershwin: "Summertime"; Performers of the three versions: Leontyne Price and Skitch Henderson; Willie Nelson; Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Dancers: Laureen Olivia Drexler, Elisabet Morera Nadal, Rei Okunishi, Louisa Poletti, Giorgia Scisciola; Filippo Buonamassa, Bartłomiej Kowalczyk, Lucas Roque Machado, Tommaso Quartani
Stage dimensions: approx. 10m x 14m
Venue: Theater im Ostpark
Duration: approx. 1 hour

Productions from the 2019/2020 season

Drum Dancing (2020)
Choreography: Georg Reischl
Music: Vincent Glanzmann
10 dancers
Stage: 12 m x 14 m
Duration: 90 min

Tanz.Fabrik! Acht (2020)
Choreography & music: Theater Regensburg Tanz dancers
Stage: 15 m x 9 m    

Juke Box Heroes (2019)
Choreography: Georg Reischl
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Leonard Bernstein, Bonnie Tyler, Antony and The Johnsons, Bronski Beat, Kate Bush, Nina Simone, Jamiroquai,  Melissa Etheridge, AC/DC, Mika, Billie Eilish
9 dancers
Stage: 15 m x 9 m
Duration: 80 min

Productions from the 2018/2019 and 2017/2018 seasons

Gefährliche Liebschaften (UA 2019)
Choreography: Yuki Mori
Music: George Fenton, Luigi Boccherini, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Pietro Locatelli, Arcangelo Corelli, Max Richter, Alessandro Marcello, Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer
10 dancers
Stage: 12 m x 14 m
Duration: 90 min

Les petites choses qui disparaissent (Die kleinen Dinge, die verschwinden) (UA 2018)
Choreography: Fabien Prioville
Music: Hilary Hahn and Hauschka, Frédéric Chopin, Tomoko Usawa, Franz Schubert, Alessandro Scarlatti,  Charlemagne Palestine, David Coulter
10 dancers
Stage: 15 m x 9 m
Duration: 35 min

Der Tod und das Mädchen (UA 2018)
Choreography: Yuki Mori
Music: Dustin O‘Halloran, Ezio Bosso, Ólafur Arnalds, Ludovico Einaudi, Franz Schubert, Max Richter
10 dancers
Stage: 15 m x 9 m
Duration: 45 min

BilderRausch: Bacon (UA 2018)
Choreography: Yuki Mori
Music: Arvo Pärt, Dobrinka Tabakova, Henryk Mikolaj Górecki and Osvaldo Golijov
10 dancers
Stage: 12 m x 14 m
Duration: 40 min

BilderRausch: Klimt (UA 2018)
Choreography: Felix Landerer
Music: Christof Littmann, Max Reger
10 dancers
Stage: 12 m x 14 m
Duration: 40 min

Shakespeare Dreams: Human (UA 2017)
Choreography: Alessio Burani
Music: Armand Amar, Ezio Bosso, Julia Kent, Abel Korzeniowski, Henry Purcell, Field Rotation
10 dancers
Stage: 15 m x 9 m
Duration: 30 min

Shakespeare Dreams: Allegoria (UA 2017)
Choreography: Yuki Mori
Music: Charles Avison, Ezio Bosso, Julia Kent, Max Richter
10 dancers
Stage: 15 m x 9 m
Duration: 35 min

Productions from the 2016/2017 season
Loops (2016)
Choreography: Yuki Mori, Music: Simeon ten Holt
10 dancers, stage 20 m x 9 m, 45 min

Blank (2016)
Choreography: Giuseppe Spota, Music: John Adams
10 dancers, stage 20 m x 9 m, 30 min
 

Productions from the 2015/2016 season
The House (2015)
Choreography: Yuki Mori, Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninow u.a.
10 dancers, stage 20 m x 9 m, 90 min

Bolero (2016)
Choreography: Yuki Mori, Music: Maurice Ravel
10 dancers, stage 18 m x 16 m, 20 min

Marina (2016)
Choreography: Ihsan Rustem
10 dancers, stage 18 m x 16 m, 45 min

Productions of the 2014/2015 season

Don Quijote (2014)
Choreografie: Yuki Mori, Musik: Léon Minkus, Ludovico Einaudi, Keith Kenniff, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann
10 Tänzer/innen, Bühnenmaße 10 x 9 m, 70 min

Productions of the 2013/2014 season

Le Sacre du Printemps (2014)
Choreografie: Yuki Mori, Musik: I. Strawinsky
11 Tänzer/innen, Bühnenmaße 18 x 16 m, 40 min

… te dhasht (2013)
Choreografie: Taulant Shehu, Musik: Arne Stevens
8 Tänzer/innen, Bühnenmaße 20 x 9 m, 18 min

Am Rand der Stille (2013)
Choreografie: Yuki Mori, Musik: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Michael Nyman, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Alexandre Desplat
10 Tänzer/innen, Bühnenmaße 20 x 9 m, 55 min

sama:zama (2013)
Choreografie: Shumpei Nemoto, Musik: Machinefabriek, Andrea Belfi, Gareth Davis, Nina Simone
10 Tänzer/innen, Bühnenmaße 20 x 9 m, 45 min

Intime Briefe (2014)
Choreografie: Yuki Mori, Musik: J. S. Bach
3 Tänzer/innen, 4 Musiker, Bühnenmaße 18 x 16 m, 25 min