What is SPOTTED?
SPOTTED brings together municipal theaters, INTHEGA theaters and independent theaters. Initiated by the cooperative TANZKOOP and the Landesverband Freie Darstellende Künste in Lower Saxony, the three-year SPOTTED program facilitates the touring of dance performances throughout Lower Saxony. As early as 2024, a total of ten guest performances can be spotted throughout Lower Saxony.
After an open call for productions originating from Lower Saxony, productions will be distributed according to performance schedules and technical requirements of the participating venues. The dance productions to be included in the SPOTTED network will be selected by an independent panel of expert jurors.
The continuously growing network of venues and the selected dance pieces can be found on this website and at www.laft.de, as well as on Instagram at @tanzkoop.
SPOT us, SPOT dance!
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The SPOTTED network consists of following theatres: Theater Hameln, Theater im Werkraum Göttingen (boat people projekt), Jahrmarkt Theater Bostelwiebeck, Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel, Theater Metronom Visselhövede!
To be continued!
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OPEN CALL
​​​The Open Call #4 is now online! Deadline for application: 30.10.2024
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Find the OPEN CALL here:​
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​The SPOTTED network is constantly growing and consists of the following venues and artists:
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The main Theatre, built in 1951/52, opened in January 1953 and extensively renovated in 1990/91, seats a good 700 spectators.
Numerous performances of various stage genres take place here from September to May/ June: Drama and comedy, opera, operetta and musical, classical concert and ballet as well as theater for children and young people.
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The TAB is the studio of Theater Hameln and is the abbreviation for “Theatre on Stage”. Since the original side house had to make way for the new Weserbergland-Zentrum building in the 1990s, the TAB now offers a suitable space for performances on a “small scale”.
Up to 150 spectators can take their seats on the stage and experience theater up close.
Since 2009, the boatpeopeprojekt has been working as an independent theater in Göttingen in various constellations, focusing on the topics of flight and migration. In terms of content, they deal with socio-political issues and the question of the possibilities of political theater. They strive for multi-perspectivity both in the program and in the composition of the artistic teams and partners in the projects. Together, they are looking for themes, forms and narrative strategies to make theater tangible for a diverse audience today. In addition to the in-house productions, part of the project is an established socio-cultural program that can be adapted in format, target groups and content depending on demand and topics.
In February 2019, they moved into and furnished the WERKRAUM in Stresemannstraße in Göttingen. The WERKRAUM offers space for around 80 spectators and is located in Göttingen's Weststadt district by Levin's Park, around 10 minutes by bike from the main station.
The Jahrmarkttheater is an independent theater with its own venue in the 45-soul village of Bostelwiebeck in the district of Uelzen. It has been producing large touring theater performances in the summer since 2008 and has been showing its own productions and now increasingly guest performances by other independent theaters in the converted cowshed since 2013. It reaches a large audience from the surrounding area and far beyond. In recent years, the Jahrmarkttheater has also increasingly become a host for other artists who use the venue as a residence for their own research and productions.
The Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel is a guest performance venue that has grown out of the enthusiasm for theater of the citizens of Wolfenbüttel. Around 140 productions in the fields of drama, music theater, concerts, dance, Word Realm and young theater are on the repertoire every year. The annual KulturSommer festival takes place on the theater forecourt with concerts by international bands. In September, the theater festival heralds the start of the new season.
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The Lessingtheater also sees itself as a meeting place for all generations on a variety of occasions in its educational theater work. In the play clubs and dance workshops, interested parties can take to the stage themselves. For schools and nurseries, there is a varied program of theater visits. The theater experience can be rounded off in the atmospheric winter gardens, where the restaurant offers an excellent range of drinks and snacks.
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Theater Metronom was founded in 1985 as a touring theater by actress and drama pedagog Karin Schroeder and director and actor Andreas Goehrt.
On the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath, close to Visselhövede, lies the village of Hütthof. A place with 12 inhabitants and a theater with 120 seats. In 1994, the Theater Metronom converted a former warehouse on an estate into a theater with an idiosyncratic charm.
This theater offers a varied program with around 60 performances a year.
It shows its own productions in the evening program, children's and youth plays, guest performances by other theaters and the results of theater projects.
Behind its graffiti-sprayed façade on the alternative Glocksee site is the traditional THEATER AN DER GLOCKSEE. Long considered an “insider's tip by the Ihme”, the group makes constant reinvention its principle, constantly forging new connections and, as an artistically reactive research laboratory, breaking the boundaries of its fixed venue with an interdisciplinary program. Its themes and forms of work remain in a state of flux and currently include crossovers between science and culture, the
testing multi-part long-term projects and research into the digital plus for theater.
Depending on the production, a diverse audience comes together in the mutable stage space with up to 100 seats and a cozy foyer, where there is always room for direct encounters between artists and the audience. In 2021, the theater was awarded the Federal Theater Prize.
SPOTTED dance artists
Fran Díaz - Born by the Sea
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In Born by the Sea, the paths of two individuals cross. Traces of their past experiences overlap and diverge, informing the way they move and the choices they make. Framed by faded memories and the romantic bleakness of Richie Culver's spoken word, their bodies act as living archives, reminding us that while some traces of the past empower us, others can hold us back; shaping how we move and cope in profound ways.
Recently, the European dance platform "Aerowaves" named Fran Díaz, as one of the selected emerging choreographers of the year 2024.
Performance date: 01.12.2024 at QUARTIER-Theater Hannover
Ilana Reynolds and Laura Hicks - Making Impressions and Other Failures
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"Making Impressions and Other Failures" is a duet that explores ecstatic and peculiar gestures as a bizarre way of relating to another person or making an impression while revealing deeper layers of the self. With humour, awkwardness, and slight extremes, the performers attempt an inability to inhibit their impulses while being driven by a structure that limits and controls them.
The work exposes the performers to real mistakes and moments of failure while celebrating joy and
playfulness. It humorously illuminates the attempt to impress and the merciless failure in doing so.
Performance dates: 21.09.2024 at Theater an der Glocksee Hannover
12.10.2014 at Jahrmarkttheater Bostelwiebeck
Meggie Blankschyn - The craftly uncanniness behind the semblance of things
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"The craftly uncanniness behind the semblance of things" is a dance that uses the imagery of darkness as the state in which the ego is confronted with the burden of its earthly existence and inner alienation.
alienation, which nevertheless has a deep, mysterious power, the will to exist and act in this world. Darkness extinguishes everything, absorbs everything: forms and fire, animals and myself, how easily it unites the living! How can the dark side, our relationship to the (in)visible, moments of friction, inner struggle and isolation serve us as emotionally enriching and magical encounters and open us up to life?
Performance date: 13.12.2024 at QUARTIER-Theater Hannover
Mónica García Vicente - I AM [NOT] Giselle
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Mónica García Vicente and two dancers embark on a search for the real woman in romantic and contemporary ballet. The two dancers embody the multi-layered and contradictory aspects of womanhood and femininity. They explore their own desires and passions and those projected onto them, states of dependence and autonomy, their own bodies as voyeuristic objects and subjects of female pleasure. The result is an expressive formal language of self-exploration, not least to give Giselle a stage as a real, complex woman.
Performance date: 30.11.2024 at Jahrmarkttheater Bostelwiebeck
Sara Angius - LONO - The Woman Who Had Two Navels
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Somewhere, a woman is sitting at a table. Her memories and vision of the future are illuminated by a seemingly banal table lamp, which tirelessly tries to gain the upper hand in the unequal duo of man and lamp. A look at inner turmoil and this eternal consciousness that simply cannot be switched off.
Illusion, dance and puppetry come together without words and very simply to create something that makes you smile as well as think - and ultimately strikes with unexpected depth.​
Performance dates: 31.08.2024 im WERKRAUM Göttingen
29.11.2024 im Theater Metronom
Tiago Manquinho - B.
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It is a basic human need to find beauty in everything - in others, objects, places and moments. Our evaluation is based on feelings, not objectivity. But where can we find beauty when everything around us seems so gray and dark? So sad and depressing. Every day, the prospects of a beautiful, bright future recede further into the distance than before. One crisis after another, one threat after another. Every day we see more horror than beauty. In times of uncertainty, this play encourages us to critically question our ideas of beauty. Our ideals, shaped by commerce and power, are not universal.​
Performance dates: 27.10.2024 im Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel
30.10.2024 im Schlosstheater Celle - Halle 19
unknown.possibilities (Alina Jaggi & Joshua Haines)
-breathing-through-tension-
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​In a world where conflicts and escalating geopolitical situations are so present we wanted to zoom in on the micro scale of what tension looks like physically in the body and between two people. In ‘-breathing-through-tension-’ we are interested in which forms tension take, and how it is expressed. How does it collect? Does it have a place in the body it resides physically? How does tension travel through one’s body? How can it dissolve? What kinds of situations does tension create between people? How does it spark? How is it diffused? Where does tension end and violence begin? How do we deal with tension and conflict in a useful and constructive manner?
Performance date: 13.12.2024 im QUARTIER-Theater Hannover
Who is SPOTTED?
SPOTTED is a cooperation between the Landesverband Freie Darstellende Künste in Niedersachsen and the cooperative TANZKOOP. The project is funded in 2024 by Stiftung Niedersachsen, Klosterkammer Hannover, Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz, Landschaftsverband Hameln-Pyrmont and Landschaftsverband Stade.
