Close collaboration with the professional field is an important part of the BA Dance curriculum. The cooperation with Schauspiel Köln in winter semester 2025-26 and summer semester 2026 involves ten students from the BA Dance in the production DIE ORESTIE.

Australian director Adena Jacobs is bringing DIE ORESTIE to the stage in a version that focuses on the crimes committed against Iphigenia and Clytemnestra. What about the anger that remains after the murder of daughter and mother? With the anger that cannot be appeased by Athena's request "you shall not be angry, women"? Adena Jacobs works in and on the neglected interstices of antiquity and combines acting with dance and video art to create a feminist Gesamtkunstwerk.

Dates:

• Saturday, 7.3.26, 7.30 pm, premiere
• Tuesday, 10.3.26, 7.30 p.m.
• Saturday, 14.3.26, 19.30, followed by an audience discussion
• Sunday, 15.3.26, 6 p.m.
• Friday, 20.3.26, 7.30 pm
• Thursday, 16.4.26, 7.30 pm
• Wednesday, 6.5.26, 7.30 pm
• Further dates in planning

Director Adena Jacobs
Stage and costume design Eugyeene Teh
Composition and sound design Max Lyandvert
Video art Mario Simon and Eugyeene Teh
Choreography Melanie Lane
Light design Jan Steinfatt
Sound Joschka Tschirley and Oliver Bersin
Dramaturgy Alexander Kerlin and Aaron Orzech

Klytaimnestra Anja Laïs
Elektra Sarah Sandeh
Chorus Julia Schubert
Agamemnon Thomas Dannemann
Kassandra Claude De Demo
Orest Steffen Siegmund
Erinnyen (BA Dance students) Evelyn Veronika Fortmeier, Matilda Behrends, Diana Alves de Oliveira, Marlene Gerber, Mara Eileen Grimm, Anouk Krämer, Katharina Lorber , Marret Schlette-Kissling, Lilly Zintl and Luise Maya Menges

Further information and tickets

Schauspiel Köln im Depot
Schanzenstraße 6 - 20
51063 Cologne