Unusual Symptoms

06/09/2025

„Despite, or perhaps because of, its rather intangible subject matter, this evening's performance works very well, creating a coherent story with narrative pull. The evening lingers in the mind and leaves a lasting impression. In this case, it is easy to say why: it is thanks to the ensemble's performance.“ - kreiszeitung.de

Before we begin rehearsals for our first premiere of the new season, we are bringing our latest work back to the stage this week. Join us on Sunday as eight dancers and a ghost stage a landscape of shared memories and collective imagination in a work by the one and only Michikazu Matsune ! 👻👻👻

🌟TOMORROW WE DREAMED OF YESTERDAY🌟
by Michikazu Matsune

⚡️ 7 / 11 / 25 September
⚡️ 10 / 30 October
📍 Theater Bremen

⚡️ 2 / 3 October
📍 fabrik Potsdam

📹: Cantufan & Lio Klose

23/05/2025

✨OPENING NIGHT✨

Yay! It's opening night for TOMORROW WE DREAMED OF YESTERDAY by Michikazu Matsune!

Together, we stage a landscape of shared memories and collective imagination. Eight dancers and a ghost search for the surprising connections between their personal stories and the absurd in the everyday, and take us to places that no one but they know. Between dance and storytelling, songs and stage tricks, a space is created in which today, yesterday and tomorrow coincide - and for a brief moment, everything seems possible.

👻👻👻

⚡️ May 23 (premiere) / 25
⚡️ June 6 / 13 / 17
⚡️ July 3

📍 Theater Bremen

📸: Jörg Landsberg

16/04/2025

Easter weekend is coming up and like every year we are looking forward to VIER TAGE TANZ! Join us for a long weekend full of dance performances, workshops, talks & party! ⚡️

Check out the full program featuring german premieres of Milla Koistinen & Temporary Collective as well as company works by Samir Akika , Milla Koistinen & Renan Martins 💗

As always, our 2-for-1 ticket special allows discounted admission to several shows at once.💥

Find all info & dates at www.theaterbremen.de/viertagetanz ✨

⚡️VIER TAGE TANZ
⚡️April 18 - April 21
⚡️Theater Bremen

07/03/2025

It’s opening night for DAWN by Milla Koistinen! ✨✨✨

DAWN delves into the potentialities, impossibilities and paradoxes of hope as an ongoing, collective practice. Drawing inspiration from the rituals and physical labour and gestures of maintenance, eight dancers explore juxtapositions: hope and grief, joy and rage, passion and fatigue - and ask how these contrasting forces can carry us through hardships, both as individuals and as a community. The practice of hope is nourishing but can also become exhausting. And when a body grows tired, it needs another to lean on, to find rest, and to be carried through. Who and what do we hold onto when dawn doesn't seem to be coming for longer than usual?

🌟 DAWN🌟
by Milla Koistinen

⚡️ March 7 / 9 / 27
⚡️ April 12 / 20
📍 Theater Bremen

📸: Jörg Landsberg

13/01/2025

We mourn the loss of our friend and ally Michael Börgerding, who passed away unexpectedly early Sunday morning. Michael is the reason why we came to Bremen in 2012 to become the new dance company of Theater Bremen under his directorship. It all started with an email from him and a coffee in a Hamburg hotel... and just like our first encounters, the years that followed were characterized by great curiosity, mutual appreciation, openness and trust. Whether we laughed together, discussed artistic ideas, were excited or thoughtful - Michael was always there, undisguised, with open ears, eyes and an open heart, a clever, sensible, loving human being with whom we grew together over the years. We owe him a great deal and are infinitely saddened by his loss. Our sympathy goes out to his family and friends.

Michael Börgerding
(1960 - 2025)

25/11/2024

⚡️ON TOUR⚡️

While a busy November is slowly coming to an end, we are still on the road and very much looking forward to the french premiere of FABULA by Claire Croizé in collaboration with Zwerm & Karen Willems at La Condition Publique in Roubaix tomorrow! Thanks NEXT Arts Festival & La Rose des Vents for having us - can't wait!✨

🌟 FABULA 🌟

🇫🇷 November 26 - Roubaix, NEXT Arts Festival

📸: Jörg Landsberg

15/11/2024

✨ OPENING NIGHT ✨

From “Funny, how?” to “Fools At Work”, Samir Akika filled many a nook and cranny between personal history, artistic experiment, and dance spectacle. In JOUJOUVILLE, he now takes us to an imaginary place of play and fantasy. With humor and absurdity, we visit a space of childhood in which it is not the rules of reason but the freedom of imagination that determines how we live together. But how innocent can you play when you are no longer a child? And what comes to light when night falls over the familiar places of the imagination? 🔮

🌟 JOUJOUVILLE 🌟
by Samir Akika

⚡️ November 15* / 23 / 29
⚡️ December 8 / 17 / 29
*sold out

📍 Theater Bremen

📸: Jörg Landsberg

11/10/2024

⚡️ON TOUR⚡️

This season we hit the road again, coming to a city near you? Our touring season 24/25 starts this weekend with the polish premiere of HARMONIA at Ciało/Umysł festival in Warsaw, followed in November by euro-scene Leipzig Leipzig and No Limits Festival at HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. Can't wait to meet new and old friends, come join us if you are around!✨

📸 Big thanks to Anna Spindelndreier for capturing our shows at Kampnagel - Internationales Zentrum für schönere Künste earlier this year!

🌟 HARMONIA 🌟

🇵🇱 October 12 - Warsaw, Ciało/Umysł
🇩🇪 November 8/9 - Leipzig, euro-scene
🇩🇪 November 18/19 - Berlin, No Limits / HAU

20/09/2024

After our extended visit to Kunsthalle Bremen, we are ready to return to the stage of Theater Bremen with FOOLS AT WORK by Samir Akika! 💫

Last season's shows have been fully sold out, so here's some new opportunities for you, including a special double-bill on New Year's Eve! 🍾

Join us already this Saturday for the first Lange Nacht der Bühnen where we will present excerpts of the show before its final revival next week! 🫰

🌟 FOOLS AT WORK 🌟
by Samir Akika

⚡️September 21 (excerpts) / 27
⚡️October 3 / 19
⚡️December 31

📍Theater Bremen

„Who are the idiots? The star who has to follow a fake image that the industry created or the fans?“ Samir Akika und die Unusual Symptoms schauen in FOOLS AT WORK auf die kapitalistischen Strukturen, die uns begeistern: Wer steht da eigentlich auf dem roten Teppich? Und was wäre, wenn niemand daneben stünde und die Person bewundern würde? Ist Kunst auch eine Ware und wenn ja, wie bestimmt sich ihr Wert?

Gleichermaßen inspiriert von Konzeptkunst und Fashion Shows durchbrechen Akika und die Tänzer:innen die Hierarchien von Hoch- und Subkultur und vermischen künstlerischen Aktivismus und die eskapistischen Freuden des Spätkapitalismus zu einem getanzten Happening über den Wert der Kunst.

FOOLS AT WORK
von Samir Akika / Unusual Symptoms

Wiederaufnahme am 27. September um 19:30 Uhr
Kleines Haus

Auszüge aus FOOLS AT WORK im Rahmen der Langen Nacht der Bühnen:
21. September um 20 Uhr + 21 Uhr + 22 Uhr

Weitere Informationen unter https://bit.ly/-tbfools

31/08/2024

How do you usually move inside of a museum? Slow or fast? Planned and chronological or intuitive and criss-cross? How do you like to watch dance? From close by or far away?

For the next two weeks, we will turn Kunsthalle Bremen into a performing space. Join us until September 15th for SPEKTRUM / RAUM by Máté Mészáros in collaboration with URBANSCREEN & Áron Porteleki 💫

🌟 SPEKTRUM / RAUM 🌟
by Máté Mészáros

⚡️ September 1 / 3 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 10 / 13 / 14 / 15
⏰ for daily performing times, please check link in bio

📍 Kunsthalle Bremen

A project of Förderkreis für Gegenwartskunst at Kunstverein Bremen. A cooperation with Kunsthalle Bremen and Urbanscreen

29/05/2024

HARMONIA is back on tour! Very much looking forward to our debut shows at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona this week, followed by a stopover at Theater Bremen before returning to beautiful Multikulturelles Centrum Templin e.V. for the second edition of Tanzfestival Templin, powered by Tanzland / Kulturstiftung des Bundes . From Catalunya to the Uckermark, come join us if you are around!✨

🌟 HARMONIA 🌟

🇪🇸 May 30/31 - Barcelona, Mercat de les Flors
🇩🇪 June 2 - Bremen, Theater
🇩🇪 June 7 - Templin, MKC

📸: Marc Doradzillo / Tanzplattform Deutschland 2024

22/05/2024

Next week are on tour again, presenting HARMONIA at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona on May 30 & 31! For our catalan speaking friends, here is an interview with choreographer Adrienn Hód ahead of the shows :)

Parlem amb la coreògrafa hongaresa Adrienn Hód sobre el procés de creació de l'espectacle 'Harmonia', que arriba al Mercat de les Flors els dies 30 i 31 de maig