space | lab is funded by ecce - Kreativ.Quartiere Ruhr, our first festival called "space | lab is running" will take place at the end of july. We invite you to see movies, performances, installations, enjoy music and food. For more information about the program visit the space | lab page.

Funding through the program "Kreativ.Quartiere Ruhr" is provided by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW) and is implemented by ecce GmbH - european centre for creative economy.

ASIA RESTAURANT is a space installation with video and sound recordings in an abandoned asian restaurant in Essen’s city centre. It is based on the piece “Home away from home” and is part of the exhibition "Folkwang and the City" as part of the 100th anniversary of the Museum Folkwang in Essen 2022.

21.5.-7.8.2022, Tue-Sun 12-20 h, former restaurant “Mayflower”, Weberplatz 3

With the funding of the RECONNECT programme we welcome the following artists as residents to space | lab in 2022: Foteini Papadopoulou, Hsiao-Ting Lee, Marco Girardin, Bianca Sere Pulungan, Kati Menze, Josie Kalies and Marlene Helling.

Supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Funding programme dance.

Due to the ongoing COV19 pandemic, we unfortunately have to move the cinema premiere of our film Home away from home, planned for Nov. 26, 2021, back to the digital space. The presentation will take place as part of the festival "Unlearn Racism" in Dresden, presented by the Council for Migration Germany.

Following the online presentation, there will be a Zoom talk with Pham Minh Duc, Andrés Hilarion and Fang Yun Lo at 7:30 pm. The discussion will be moderated by Lizza May David from the association korientation e.V. Berlin.

The space | lab Essen, our working and research space in Essen, will continue to receive funding from the RECONNECT programme in 2022 - we are excited about this together with our partners, all the artists of IG Tanz Essen and the producer Sabina Stücker. Thank you very much! Further information at space | lab Essen!

Supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Funding programme dance.

NANO GIANTS is a journey through a theatrical wonderland where we explore the value of community. It is about simple but fundamental questions of human life: Are we small or big, in relation to what and whom? What can we do alone, what only together? Do we move or are we moved?

On 1 October our new production for young audiences will start at a historic location: Mary Wigman's rehearsal hall in Dresden! Realised in cooperation with Tanzpakt Dresden / HELLERAU and PACT Zollverein Essen.