program

Do 16.01.

17:00

NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste (North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for the Independent Performing Arts)

FANFARE

New Year’s Start and North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for the Independent Performing Arts Anniversary Gala
Internal Networking Event

The North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for the Independent Performing Arts issues an invitation to their traditional New Year’s Start and network gathering. The FFT Düsseldorf will host the event for the first time in 2025. This event will be held for State Office members; registration will be handled by the North Rhine-Westphalian State Office.


Fr 17.01.

16:00 - 19:00

Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll)

Stadt, Markt, Spiel (City, Market, Game)

as part of In welcher Stadt wollen wir leben?
Workshop

In keeping with the chosen motto The City We Want to Live In?, we will, following living space and public space, now consider the consumerist space. To be exact: the supermarket. During this workshop, the participants will receive insight into the research and play techniques Rimini Protokoll employs as they try out how to turn the market into a stage.


Sa 18.01.

11:00 - 15:00

Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll)

Stadt, Markt, Spiel (City, Market, Game)

as part of In welcher Stadt wollen wir leben?
Workshop

In keeping with the chosen motto The City We Want to Live In?, we will, following living space and public space, now consider the consumerist space. To be exact: the supermarket. During this workshop, the participants will receive insight into the research and play techniques Rimini Protokoll employs as they try out how to turn the market into a stage.


Mi 22.01.

17:30

Master’s Program Play & Object, Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts

Show and Tell

Presentation

At the conclusion of their first semester, the students gather for concentrated three days of concentrated work at the FFT. This time, they would like to explore the technical possibilities of communication between within and without – through the first-floor FFT Foyer windows.


Fr 24.01.

20:00

ticket Bühne I

im Anschluss Publikumsgespräch

Billinger & Schulz

die Dunkelheit (the Darkness)

Dance

Sebastian dances! And he dances die Dunkelheit (the Darkness): Despair, grief, anger – yet also party, excess, and transition. In their new choreography, simultaneously demanding as well as touching, Verena Billinger & Sebastian Schulz critically dissect the concept of “toxic masculinity”.


Sa 25.01.

17:00

with Ives Thuwis

Wie war das nochmal? (How did that go again?)

as part of 25 Jahre FFT
Talk

In our talk series in which we remember special moments from 25 FT years, we will now reminisce about the legendary staging of Adieu which Belgian choreographer Ives Thuwis developed together with ten Düsseldorf youths at the FFT in 2004 – it remains one of the most successful FFT productions to this day.


20:00

ticket Bühne I

im Anschluss Publikumsgespräch

Billinger & Schulz

die Dunkelheit (the Darkness)

Dance

Sebastian dances! And he dances die Dunkelheit (the Darkness): Despair, grief, anger – yet also party, excess, and transition. In their new choreography, simultaneously demanding as well as touching, Verena Billinger & Sebastian Schulz critically dissect the concept of “toxic masculinity”.