Dresden, Germany
HELLERAU - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste is a historic arts centre in the garden city of Hellerau, Dresden's first garden city district. The Festspielhaus, built in 1911 by Heinrich Tessenow, was originally home to the Dalcroze Institute and became a pioneering stage for rhythm, dance and theatrical reform in early 20th-century Europe. Today it hosts contemporary dance, performance, theatre and interdisciplinary festivals, drawing artists and companies from across the continent.
😴 Nothing scheduled here in the near future.
Director Ugo Arsac's interactive VR project explores New York's subway through the stories of its inhabitants. Winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes 2026.
Premiere of the album Angelus Luminis by Freunde der italienischen Oper as a film-music-performance at HELLERAU. A project merging surrealist cinema with music and guests including René Pape.
A wordless dance solo by Nitsan Margaliot rooted in his family's Holocaust history, combining movement, poetry and archival material on stage.
Omer Krieger's wordless performance in Dresden's public spaces weaves together commemorative dance and the city's fascist history, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to Nazi-era sites on the Elbe.
A guided walk through Hellerau tracing the garden city's history under National Socialism, including architectural changes and the fate of the Festspielhaus between 1933 and 1945.
Cloud Gate Dance Company brings this 65-minute dance work to Dresden, tracing the legend of a 1960s Taipei street performer through Taiwanese folk music, Taoist chants, electronica, and luminous stage projections.
Greek choreographer Lenio Kaklea brings a wordless dance piece to Dresden's HELLERAU, exploring identity and power through the perspective of birds, with a soundscape drawn from bioacoustic recordings.
Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company presents a double bill in Dresden: Thomas Bradley and Ioannis Mandafounis each bring a new choreography exploring movement, sound and the space between noise and music.