Transkontinentale 2025

Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America: the international dance theatre and performance festival brings together guest performances from four continents on the theme of family.

In ‘My Body, My Archive’, Congolese choreographer and dancer Faustin Linyekula sets out in search of the women in his family.

Brazilian Tetembua Dandara invites the audience to celebrate with her, her mother, her sister, her niece and her grandmother – with moqueca and cachaça, music and stories: ‘Eu tenho uma história …’.

Also from Brazil is Cris Moreira with her lecture performance ‘Quadra’ 16 about families that will never exist after miscarriage or abortion.

In ‘SoftMachine: The Return’, Choy Ka Fei from Singapore asks two dancers from his artistic family of choice, with whom he started his professional life over ten years ago: ‘How can we grow old together, think and play together?’

Joel Bray from Australia involves the audience in his search for his indigenous father in ‘Daddy’.

In ‘Kizazi / Womb,’ Stéphanie Mwamba from the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo describes the female body as an oppressed territory, a combat zone.

In his interactive performance, Nitish Jain tells the story of the Jacobin cuckoo, a migratory bird eagerly awaited in India as a harbinger of the monsoon season, which starts a family by destroying the eggs of another family.

In the exhibition at the Ethnological Collection, Logan February embarks on a poetic search for her Yoruba ancestors.

South African author and director Koleka Putuma invites infants up to 12 months old and their parents to her theatre tent with ‘Magnet Theatre’s Scoop’.

All guest performances are accompanied by encounters and discussions with the artists.