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18:00 — 19:25
Große Bühne
Director: Pia Richter
17:30 — 18:20
Diskothek
euro-scene Leipzig
Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
19:30 — 21:30
Große Bühne
Festival opening euro-scene Leipzig
Marie Chouinard! The grande dame of Québec’s dance scene first pays tribute to Bach in a radiant, paradisiacal Baroque ballet. She then transforms Henri Michaux’s ink drawings into vibrant, fluid bodies. An evening of striking contrasts and exceptional artistry.
17:30 — 18:20
Diskothek
euro-scene Leipzig
Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
19:30 — 20:30
Große Bühne
euro-scene Leipzig
17:30 — 18:20
Diskothek
euro-scene Leipzig
Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
19:30 — 20:30
Große Bühne
euro-scene Leipzig
No dance form seems as devoted to the cult of youth as hip-hop. But breakers grow older, too. IN MY BODY brings together different generations in a captivating dance of unity, where youthful energy meets experiencewith passion and optimism.
21:30 — 22:45
Residenz
euro-scene Leipzig
Four Syrian theatre artists in exile confront an urgent question: What does it mean to return? Blending memories, humour and music, EXERCISES FOR A POSSIBLE RETURN explores home, identity and a debate thatconcerns Europe as well.
17:30 — 18:45
Residenz
euro-scene Leipzig
Four Syrian theatre artists in exile confront an urgent question: What does it mean to return? Blending memories, humour and music, EXERCISES FOR A POSSIBLE RETURN explores home, identity and a debate thatconcerns Europe as well.
21:30 — 22:20
Diskothek
euro-scene Leipzig
Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
19:30 — 20:40
Große Bühne
Final night euro-scene Leipzig
20:00 — 22:00
Diskothek
Director: Regine Dura & Hans-Werner Kroesinger
20:00 — 21:10
Diskothek
Director: Ebru Tartıcı Borchers
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig
Der Girschkarten (UA)
Director: Enrico Lübbe
15:00 — 22:00
Große Bühne
Das Vermächtnis
(The Inheritance)
Director: Enrico Lübbe
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
18:00
Große Bühne
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
11:00
Foyer 1
Festival Europäische Notenspuren 2026
Ein Besuch im Neuen Leipziger Operettentheater
mit dem Salonorchester Krause
20:00 — 21:10
Diskothek
Kitt (UA)
Documentary theatre project by dura & kroesinger
Director: Hans-Werner Kroesinger & Regine Dura
20:00
Große Bühne
Guest Performance
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Director: Thirza Bruncken
19:30
Foyer 1
20:00
Residenz
Leipzig premiere
Kindheiten
vorschlag:hammer (Duisburg/Berlin/Zürich)
20:00 — 21:45
Diskothek
Director: Kamila Polívková
20:00
Diskothek
20:00
Residenz
Kindheiten
vorschlag:hammer (Duisburg/Berlin/Zürich)
16:00
Große Bühne
20:00 — 21:20
Diskothek
Drive In (UA)
Produktion des Theaterjugendclubs „Sorry, eh!“
Director: Yves Hinrichs
09:00
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
10:00
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
19:30 — 20:45
Foyer 1
Revival
„Spieglein, Spieglein, halt's Maul, wir müssen nachdenken“
with texts of Ada Berger and Liv Strömquist
Artistic direction: Ellen Neuser
Ada Berger and Liv Strömquist give a voice to women who consider social expectations – beautiful, ugly, old, young, envious, empathetic, suffering, cheerful, questioning, complex and contradictory women, all played by Paulina Bittner.
09:00
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
19:30 — 20:50
Foyer 1
Director: von Lina Wegner
19:30 — 21:05
Foyer 1
Scenic project by Tilo Krügel and Denis Petković
20:00 — 21:55
Diskothek
Studio Production 2026
Director: Katrin Plötner
Director: Katrin Plötner
19:30
Foyer 1
Director: Yves Hinrichs
19:30 — 22:45
Große Bühne
20:00 — 21:45
Diskothek
13:00
Schauspielhaus
36. VISIONALE LEIPZIG
Media Festival & Show with Awards Ceremony
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig
Der Girschkarten (UA)
Director: Enrico Lübbe
10:00
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer