In English: Hanseatic Days 2025: The Performance Festival HANSEartWORKS
Performance festival during the Hanseatic Days 2025! See all participating artists below.
The full program for the Hanseatic Days.🔗
(N)Irgendwo Allein
Compagnie Lapadou with Duo Saverio, Salzwedel (D)
Compagnie Lapadou presents the theatre production (N)Irgendwo Allein, accompanied by music from Duo Saverio. What does closeness mean and what feels too close? Or too distant? How does loneliness feel like? Why me? And why here? The play deals with the well-known and universally human subject of closeness and distance in a light-hearted and humorous way. Performed without spoken language, suitable for people of all ages.Compagnie Lapadou: Mira Schubert and Nils Klawon Duo Saverio: Christine and Jens-Peter Dossin
What: Theatre production
Location: Donners plats
Time: 6/6 at 2 pm; 7/6 at 3 pm
Inter-be-ing
rare eye contact | bare improvisation Inter-be-ing, Lübeck (D)
Inter-be-ing is a performance group exploring the interconnectedness of human identities. It examines the complex non-verbal exchanges in human relationships and provides room for a deeper mutual connection. To allow the audience to take part in the composition, the musicians and the participants sit face to face. While maintaining eye contact, music emerges as a moment-composition in real-time, inspired by the interpersonal exchange. The improvisations include various interventions, sounds, electronic elements, texts, etc., within the context of contemporary experimental music. Inter-be-ing: Qazal Tabandeh, Ninon Gloger, Bérengère Le Boulair
Location: La Scala, Kulturum, Specksrum 6
Time: 6/6 at 4 pm; 7/6 at 5 pm
Creatures – Sound of Silence. An artistic walk through landscape
Artscenico performing arts, Dortmund (D)
Sound of Silence – Creatures is a theatrical station course. From scene to scene, a group of strange creatures wander through this course. Guided by two ‘naturalists’, they take the audience on an excursion on the border between dream and reality. They seem to be on a quest. Searching for … yeah, what for? Their identity? The lost time? Themselves? Whatever they are looking for they will find moments of poetry in encounters with the unexpected, in music, texts, sounds, as well as in the silence surrounding them. Artscenico: Regine Anacker, Matthias Hecht, Berthold Meyer, Roman D. Metzner, Chino Monagas, Cynthia Scholz, and local people on Gotland acting as members of the speaking choir/performers.
Location: Start at Gotlands Museum, Fornsalen inner courtyard, Strandgatan 14
Time: 6/6 at 11.30 am; 7/6 at 3.30 pm
Tangible – a performance (Bitte berühren!)
Simone Fezer, Lüneburg (D)
A hybrid figure moulded from clay, shapeless and unfinished, covered in reflecting mirror fragments moves through the crowd, dazzling and awkward. The figure exposes itself, makes itself vulnerable, explores transitions and boundaries. She invites people to consciously touch her or be touched, leaving traces, with hands pressed into the soft mass or with simple tools. How close do we get and what do we communicate when we do, what role do shyness or even disgust play? How do we build a relationship, how malleable are we, what do we allow ourselves and how personal do we become? It invites curiosity and creativity, to playfully overcome our fear of the unknown, the new and the possibly strange and to enter a dialogue.
Tangible _ a performance is performed by: Simone Fezer ochUnn Dahlman (Gotland).
Location: Start at Gotlands Museum, Strandgatan 14
Time: 6/6 at 1 pm; 7/6 at 12
Thanks to Pollinators
Kamila Chomicz, Gdansk (PL) The installation explores the human-nature relationship, highlighting wild pollinators’ role. At its centre, a table—symbolising community and dialogue—is draped in a white cloth embroidered with insect-pollinated plants. Participants enrich the artwork by adding stitches, reviving traditional handcrafts and fostering a deeper connection to nature. Accompanying photographs of wild bees emphasises biodiversity’s importance, making the piece both a work of art and a call to protect fragile ecosystems.
Location: Almedalen
Time: 6/6 at 10 am; 7/6 at 10.30 am
Dangerous Guests – A Duet
TUN&LASSEN, Neuss (D)
What happens when public space is no longer a place of polite indifference? TUN&LASSEN’s Dangerous Guests – A Duet disrupts routines, sparking unexpected encounters through movement, tension and play. In playful, subtle, and bold ways, we use our bodies to explore possibilities of contact, negotiation and friction. Among ourselves and in relation to our surroundings, we test trust and unpredictability. What does it take to throw each other off balance? We are uncertain. We create uncertainty.
Who endangers whom, and what is truly at risk? Meet the Dangerous Guests. Take time to pause and observe public space.
TUN&LASSEN: Jennifer Döring and Philine Herrlein
Location: Stora torget, Visby
Time: 6/6 at 12.30 pm ; 7/6 at 16 pm
Flashed – was speeding
Projekt 55, Lippstadt (D)
The Projekt 55 invites you to take a break and to reflect in a captivating and entertaining manner. In this fast-paced time, a shared break is the opportunity to arrive back in the here and now. The performance elegantly combiness lightness with the seriousness of life. This happens playfully and has a lasting effect. Also against loneliness and solitude!
Michael Butterweck (artist name: f.m. Laisetreter) Harm Wesselink (artist name: Harm Harmsen)Christian Sander (artist name: van Quasten)
Location: Wisby Strand Kongress & Event
Time: 6/6 at 1.15 pm; 7/6 2 pm
BÄH
Peter Conrad Beyer, Stralsund (D)
The performing artist Peter Conrad Beyer demonstrates his own outrage. And he repeats it until the viewer perhaps turns away from the endless cycle of outrage and also becomes outraged, protests, and gets involved. We do not find out what the artist is outraged over. The viewer is asked to fill in this gap: What am I outraged over? The international dictatorship of the financial markets, which endangers peace and democracy? Xenophobia? Environmental destruction? The power of the media? Himself?
Two-Channel-Videoinstallation (2023)
Location: Resurscentrum Konst och Form, Kulturum, Specksrum 6, Visby
Time: Open 6–8 june: 6/6-7/6 11 am – 5 pm; 8/6 11 am – 3 pm
It´s nice to be sensitive. A gift and a pain at the same time!
Billeneeve, Pärnu (EST)
The central motif of Billeneeve’s performance this time is dance: through an intense dance journey and pompous costumes, the artist dissects relationships and their impact on a person. In addition to the physical, the artist plans to add a verbal component, letting herself be taken over by the dance, while at the same time shouting out the text created for the performance.
Location: Start at Gotlands Museum, Strandgatan 14
Time: 6/6 at 11 am; 7/6 at 11.30 am
Ansvar – Responsibility – Verantwortung
Barbara Lorenz Höfer and Susan Donath, Buxtehude (D)
Barbara Lorenz Höfer and Susan Donath will work artistically with the three words Ansvar – Responsibility – Verantwortung (Swedish, English, German). In this context, the word Ansvar is a keyword on the subject of relationships. We are responsible for ourselves and for other people. The way we see or live this responsibility determines our relationships. In a performance, Barbara Lorenz Höfer and Susan Donath will write the three words with chalk in a large format in public space.
Location: Almedalen
Time: 6/6 at 10.30 am; 7/6 at 10 am
Cubs and Wands
Emelie Ivert & Erika Coleman, Visby (S)
The performance Cups and Wands sheds light upon the unifying force of changeability that always plays a part in all kinds of relationships. A steel vessel, water from the Baltic sea and clay from Gotland come together as solid becomes fluid, fluid takes shape and is reshaped. Some energy is converted into other forms, spreads out, reflects and absorbs. Here material and ritual together form sound waves which in turn could transform into individual perception, acquire beat and rhythm, become like notes in a melody.
Location: 6/6 Kulturum Specksrum 6, 7/6 Donners plats
Time: 6/6 at 5 pm; 7/6 at 11
eMOTIONS
Ryszard Baloń, Stargard (PL)
Ryszard Baloń´s artistic world has revolved around printmaking, primarily in small formats. These intimate miniatures are a space of infinite possibility, where subtle associations give rise to multi-layered interpretations. Now, to expand perception and amplify emotion, these works have been set in motion through AI—breaking free, if only for a moment, from the stillness of traditional graphics to reflect the ever-changing rhythm of the modern world. The spark to animate my art came from Maciej Piaszczyński, a journalist and cultural visionary, while the AI technology was brought to life by Waldemar Jaszczak, a photographer and IT artist. The multimedia performance born from our collaboration is charged with creative energy, dissolving boundaries between observer and creator. Interwoven with interactivity and ambiguity, it invites the audience to step beyond passive viewing—becoming part of the work itself, shaping new meanings with every encounter.
Location: Resurscentrum Konst och Form, Kulturum, Specksrum 6, Visby
Time: Open 6–8 june: 6/6-7/6 11 am – 5 pm; 8/6 11 am – 3 pm
MELT
De tre polardjuren, Visby (S)
Three polar animals reconstruct their lost habitat, the iceberg. On the street and in the gallery space, a landscape emerges from the memories they have preserved. MELT is a performance, installation, film, projection and sound piece.
The three polar animals:
The Arctic Fox – Ylva Törnlund The Mountain Hare – Helene Berg The Polar Bear – Kristina Frank
Location and time: 6/6 at 3 pm, Kulturum (part of the opening of HANSEartWORKS).
7/7 at 12.45 pm Almedalsscenen, at 1.30 pm Gotlands Museum
