Program in accompaniment to the Festival 2025

The evening before the competition belongs to Stuttgart’s independent dance scene. Choreographers from Stuttgart and the surrounding region present their contemporary solo pieces. The performances follow the format of the preliminary rounds of the International Solo-Dance-Theater Festival Stuttgart. Stuttgart Solo Choreo highlights the strength and diversity of the Stuttgart scene. The dance productions are performed outside of the competition and will not be awarded. In cooperation with the Produktionszentrum Tanz und Performance e.V.

„6. SOLO CHOREO 2025

Choreography & Performance:
Eva Baumann (Germany)
„dis_figured“
Choreography & Performance:
Jonas Florian Nothof (Germany)
„Niemandsland“
Choreography: KOMA&Ko/Magdalena Weniger (Germany)
Performance :Ayça Turgut (Turkey)
„Layers of Ash“
Choreography: Bar Gonen (Israel)
Performance : Seung Hwan Lee (Republic of Korea)
„Thinner Skin“
Choreography & Performance: Paco Ladrón de Guevara (Spain)
„CRASH“
Choreography & PerformanceStella Covi (Italy/Germany)
„ORDYH“

“Dancing is Everywhere – Photographs by Günter Krämmer”

will be on display from March 5 to April 13, 2025. Günter Krämmer has been documenting the work of UnterwegsTheater Heidelberg since 1994.


Clémence Juglet, whose solo performance “I need to” won the 1st prize in dance at the 25th Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival Stuttgart 2021, will conduct two contemporary dance workshops for beginners:

  • Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 2:00 PM at Produktionszentrum Tanz und Performance e.V. (Course no. 251-25105)
  • Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 1:30 PM at TREFFPUNKT Rotebühlplatz (Course no. 251-25106).

„Solo Dialog“

Solo Dialog is a new project that will be held annually where local talents meet with past festival award winners to create a joint performance under the guidance of Roberta Ferrara.

Roberta Ferrara is the founder and Artistic Director of the Equilibrio Dinamico company, a freelance educator and choreographer, and Prize winner of the 22nd International Solo Dance Theater Festival 2018.

Cast

Roberta Ferrara, Breeanne Saxton, Louis Thuriot, Martina Gurkel and Stella Covi

The result of this artistic dialogue will be showcased during the festival at publicly accessible locations, such as the Mercedes-Benz Museum and the Landesmuseum Württemberg in the Old Castle.


Dance On Screen ON TOUR

On the day of the finals, during the jury’s reunion, ISTTF is again spotlighting the genre dance film in cooperation with the Dance On Screen FilmFestival Graz. In Austria, dance film is primarily associated with the UNESCO City of Design Graz, where since 2016 Valentina Moar presents her annually event.

The festival offers an intensive program with film screenings, dance film workshops and awards and serves as a networking hub for Austrian and international dancers and filmmakers. In the 2016-2024 editions, the festival screened over 400 international dance films in Graz, and Dance On Screen also sets impulses for dance film in Europe throughout the year: guest film screenings and festival collaborations have so far taken place in Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and other Austrian federal states. The next edition, the 10th anniversary of Dance On Screen will be held in November 2025 in Graz.

For the screening in Stuttgart Valentina Moar prepared a selection of dance films which correspond to ISTTF’s focus – solo works.

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Fenja Jäger

Deutsch

Im Jahre 2024 schloss Fenja ihr Abitur am Hölderlin Gymnasium in Nürtingen ab. Seit September 2025 ist sie bei der Volkshochschule in Stuttgart tätig und macht dort ein Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr im Bereich Kultur und Kreativität. Das Freiwilligenjahr beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich im Bereich Veranstaltungsorganisation. Neben dem Internationalen Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival ist Fenja für Veranstaltungs- und Kursangebot im Bereich Kultur und Kreativität, vor allem für junge Leute, zuständig.

Englisch

Fenja graduated from Hölderlin Gymnasium in Nürtingen in 2024. Since September 2025, she has been working at the Volkshochschule in Stuttgart, where she is doing a voluntary social year which is all about culture and creativity. The volunteer year mainly focuses on event organization. In addition to the International Solo Dance Theater Festival, Fenja is responsible for events and courses in the field of culture and creativity, especially for young people.

Winners‘ Tour 2024 – Germany

March 15-25, 2024

Program Tour of the Prize Winners 28th International Solo Dance Theater Festival Stuttgart 2024

1st Prize Choreography, Residency Prize “Bridges over the waves”, DAF International Award
Choreography & Dance: Subin Cho (Republic of Korea)
with “Fragile”

2nd Prize Choreography, Audience Award
Choreography & Dance: Gianni Notarnicola (Italy)
with “KAMA”

3rd Prize Choreography
Choreography: Aline Braun (France) with “ORIGAMI”
Dance: Sofia Scarpellini (Italy)
Workshop Prize of the Copenhagen International Dance Festival

1st Prize Dance, SDC International Residency
Choreography & Dance: Vitor Hamamoto (Brazil)
with “Missing names”

2nd Prize Dance, Audience Award, DANTZAZ SARIA Residency Prize
Choreography & Dance: Davide Benigni (Italy)
with “I feel that I’m missing something but I hardly know what.”

3rd Prize Dance Choreography & Dance: Emma-Lynn MacKay-Ronacher (Canada) with “What She Saw”

with support

 

CITIES & DATA & TICKETS
15 + 16.11.2024 – Stuttgart – Kammertheater
17.11.2024 – Heidelberg – HebelTheater
18.11.2024 – Karlsruhe – Kulturzentrum Tempel
19.11.2024 – Lindau – Stadttheater
20.11.2024 – Augsburg – Kulturhaus abraxas
22.11.2024 – Puchheim – Kulturzentrum PUC
23 + 24.11.2024 – Regensburg – Regensburger Tanztage
25.11.2024 – Ulm – Roxy

Elly Walch

2020 schloss Elly Walch am Institut für Kulturmanagement der PH Ludwigsburg ihr Master-Studium in „Kulturwissenschaft und Kulturmanagement“ ab. Zuvor studierte sie an der Universität Passau im Bachelor „Kulturwirtschaft/ International Cultural and Business Studies“. Seit 2020 ist Elly Walch an der volkshochschule stuttgart tätig, seit 2021 als Leiterin des Fachbereichs Tanz. Neben dem Internationalen Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival sowie dem Veranstaltungs- und Kursangebot im Bereich Tanz ist Elly Walch für die Fachbereiche Theater und Bildende Kunst zuständig.

Elly Walch

In 2020, Elly Walch graduated from the Institute for Cultural Management at the PH Ludwigsburg with a Master’s degree in „Cultural Studies and Cultural Management“. She received her bachelor’s degree in „International Cultural and Business Studies“ from the University of Passau. Since 2020, Elly Walch has been working at the volkshochschule stuttgart, since 2021 as head of the dance department. In addition to the International Solo Dance Theater Festival and the cultural events and classes in the field of dance, Elly Walch is also in charge of the departments of theater and visual arts.

Birgit Brinkmann

Nach ihrem Studium „Öffentliche Kulturarbeit und Kulturmanagement“ an der PH Ludwigsburg arbeitete Birgit Brinkmann im Kulturamt der Stadt Stuttgart in verschiedenen Bereichen der Kulturförderung. 2001 wechselte sie ins Kulturmanagement in das Veranstaltungszentrum TREFPPUNKT Rotebühlplatz. Seit 2006 ist sie an der vhs stuttgart neben dem Internationalen Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival Stuttgart und weiteren Großprojekten im Veranstaltungs- und Kursangebot im Fachbereich Tanz tätig.

Birgit Brinkmann studied „Public cultural work and cultural management“ at the PH Ludwigsburg and worked in various areas of cultural promotion at the Cultural Departement of the City Stuttgart. From 2001, she worked in cultural management at the event center TREFFPUNKT Rotebühlplatz and since 2006 she has been responsible for the International Solo Dance Theater Festival and many other major projects in the dance department at the volkshochschule stuttgart.

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