Opening of the east wing & season festival on Open Monument Day

The Small Hall in the East Wing will be celebratorally opened to the public for the first time on the Day of Open Monuments. Short performances, concerts, workshops, talks and guided tours will alternate throughout the day and convey a new feeling of HELLERAU. You can see and hear contributions from Sebastian Weber, go plastic company, Miller de Nobili, Fang Yun Lo, In Presence Dance Company, Ring Trio and Max Rademann, among others. The LAGO Bar will provide refreshments on site and in the Kulturgarten.

Duration: 11:00 – 20:00

Program Schedule

Grand opening of the Small Hall in the East Wing
11:00 – 12:00 
with In Presence Dance Company, Banda Comunale, Continuum XXI & AuditivVokal Dresden and welcome speeches

Guided Tours

Guided Tour through the East Wing
12:30 & 15:30
Meeting point: in front of the East Wing
Duration: 30 min.
Language: German
André Schallenberg (Program Director Theater/Dance at HELLERAU) and Julian Snethlage (Architect) through the East Wing.

Guided tour through the Festspielhaus
11:30 — 15:30
Start every half hour, last tour begins at 15:30
Meeting point: Foyer Festspielhaus
Dauer: ca. 30 Min.
Language: German

The Garden City of Hellerau under National Socialism
with Claudia Dietze and Robert Badura
14:00
Meeting point: in front of the Visitor Centre
Language: German
Tickets: 15/10 €

Artistic contributions in the East Wing

Julia Amme
Kaltdach mit Fledermaus – Ein audiovisuelles Bautagebuch (Cold Roof with Bat – An audiovisual construction diary)
11:30 – 18:00, continuous
East Wing, Foyer
An audiovisual installation from the demolition to the completion of the East Wing of the Festspielhaus in five stations.
Production: missingdots, idea, realization, speaker: Julia Amme, recording & sound: Clemens Levin

Miller de Nobili
Clouds for tomorrow
14:00 
East Wing, Small Hall
Miller de Nobili, the current winners of the City of Dresden’s sponsorship award, present the story of two outsiders – awkward, rebellious, tender – caught between control and collapse, trying to find their place in a world they don’t quite fit into. Their journey unfolds through strange gestures and shifting dynamics, somewhere between resistance and care.

go plastic company
RETROMANIA – Insights into an interdisciplinary research project
14:30
East Wing, Small Hall
ca. 14 min.
The project is dedicated to the aesthetics and impact of digital nostalgia, inspired by the so-called vaporwave movement. The focus is on questions of the body, memory and accessibility. Between choreography, sound, text and textiles, an immersive artistic field of research is being created that will culminate in a stage production in 2026. The show gives a first glimpse of this multi-layered work – and invites you to exchange ideas.

Ring Trio
16:30
East Wing, Small Hall

DJ-Set with David Le Thai & Max Rademann
starting 17:00

Katja Erfurth
da I sein – STADT.GESCHICHTE.TANZ. – Episode III
17:30
Meeting point: in front of the Visitor Centre
ca. 2 h
Language: German
Tickets: 16/11 €
Starting at the HELLERAU festival theater and continuing through the garden city to the Hellerau workshops, the artistic walk builds a bridge between knowledge transfer and artistic and sensual exploration through dance, music and words.

Workshops

Polymer DMT
14:00 
East Wing, Studio C
ca. 50 min
Movement workshop with Fang Yun Lo and David Le Thai
For the Day of Open Monuments, Fang Yun Lo and her colleague David Le Thai are offering a short movement workshop for everyone. It is about basic principles of movement – fast and slow, big and small, or round and angular. These movement qualities are tried out at various stations and linked to emotions and experiences. The workshop is aimed at all ages and is held in German and English.

Sebastian Weber Dance Company 
Movement Workshop 
15:30
East Wing, Studio C
ca. 30 min
Sebastian Weber’s invitation to experience the kick of tap dance – without tap shoes and without prior knowledge for everyone. With simple steps, stomping, clapping and dancing, the archaic foundations of groove can be physically experienced: the balance of beat and off-beat, focus and flow, community and individual.