Emanuele Soavi incompany welcomes you!
following our successful start to the season with the revival of the hotel performance ANIMA at the MOVE! Festival in Krefeld, our first premiere is now just around the corner:
Together with his core ensemble – Lisa Kirsch, Taeyeon Kim and Federico Casadei – Emanuele Soavi will once again present a choreographic concert at the Cologne Philharmonie. Having previously collaborated with Anna Prohaska and the lautten compagney BERLIN, as well as with Cantus Cölln, he is this time joining forces with organist Babette Mondry and percussionist Fritz Hauser. This extraordinary collaboration explores how dance has inspired composers to create highly rhythmic organ works and features, amongst other things, an unconventional version of Ravel’s Boléro.
Organ plus … percussion and dance
on 16 November at 8.00 pm at the Cologne Philharmonie
What if human bodies were subject to the same invisible forces that move the planets? What if the universe is trying to tell us what comes next?
A world premiere is set to take place in January 2027 at the Depot in Cologne with the new project 365 Skies Above Me. Together with sound artist Johannes Malfatti, actress Kate Strong, five dancers and four cellists, Emanuele Soavi is creating a planetarium in which dance, text and live music intertwine in an installation of taut, resonant strings, and the unpredictability of human expression meets algorithmic precision.
365 Skies Above Me
World premiere on 23 January 2027 at 8.00 pm at the Depot in Cologne
Further performances on 24 January at 7.00 pm and on 26 January at 8.00 pm
In December 2026, we will be offering first insights into the artistic creative processes behind this production through a variety of formats – admission is free.
On 13 December at 3 pm, Depot Köln will open its doors for a rehearsal with the dancers.
On 17 December at 8 pm, we invite you to the hall of the Alte Feuerwache in Cologne to Soavis LIVING ROOM, where we will present the production, discuss the special relationship between music and dance, and engage in conversation with our audience. Among our guests is Prof. Dr Thomas Moore, Head of the Institute for New Music at the Cologne University of Music and Dance.
On 18 December between 3 pm and 6 pm, and on 19 December between 11.30 am and 2 pm, you can visit a rehearsal at Alte Feuerwache to see how the interplay between dance and live music takes shape.
THIS IS A PREMIERE will be performed at the Schauspiel Köln in March 2027 as part of the Internationale Tanzgastspiele. This production by and starring Cristiana Morganti and Emanuele Soavi just turned from a successful performance at the ‘Fuori Programma’ festival in Rome.
We are delighted that the international dance film platform DanceFilmmaking.com has published Hansjörg Thurn’s internationally acclaimed film essay THE DAY I BECAME A CLOUD about the creation of our co-production with the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and the Max Ernst Museum Brühl and made it available to everyone free of charge here.
See you!
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