Open Studio of the ID_Tanzhaus Residency Program 2026

Throughout August and September, the selected artists have three weeks to develop their projects. At the end of the residency, the Open Studio offers audiences the opportunity to meet the artists and discover their work through presentations of works in progress, production run-throughs, and performative experiments.

Admission is free.

All public areas of Frankfurt LAB are accessible at ground level or via small ramps. The venue includes a wheelchair-accessible restroom.

Reservations are recommended – simply register here.

“Gatherings of Consolation” by Santiago Mariño presents the results of an initial research phase for a project that connects South American poetry by Piedad Bonnett and María Mercedes Carranza with embodied dance memories of the South American diaspora in Germany. The two art forms enrich one another: movement, voice, stage design, and interaction with the audience enter into dialogue. The audience is invited to sit, read, and move together in an exercise that builds a bridge between social and artistic forms of expression.

Hanna Launikovich’s “she-zoo/schizo/ШIЗА” explores what happens to the body when violence becomes imaginable. Drawing on accounts and experiences of Belarusian political prisoners, the piece asks: How does the female body survive when the space in which it is held captive denies it? How can experiences of captivity be translated into movement? A choreographic and sonic exploration of the bodies of those imprisoned and those who fear they themselves may become captive.

“Trickster-Rauschen” by Ida Daniel and Todor Stoyanov is a choreographic research project exploring what happens when a digital strategy designed to sabotage exploitative AI practices enters the space. Self-built sound machines, everyday expressions, and the voice become the material for a process concerned as much with listening and movement as with invisibility and resistance. A performance-lecture presenting the initial findings of an ongoing project.