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The showcase trailer for Impulse Festival 2025: The festival logo is shown in bouncing motion in the middle of the image, information about the time period and venues is faded in to the beat of the music: 18 June to 6 July 2025, in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne and Düsseldorf. The logo transitions into a rapid sequence of individual video clips from all the productions, and as the music slows down, the videos are also played in slow motion. All the names of the showcase artists are then displayed: Claire Cunningham, Jen Rosenblit, Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (DARUM), Hendrik Quast, Joana Tischkau, Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula, Simnonde Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen, Stuido Urbanistan, Arkadi Zaides / Institut des Croisements, Jaha Koo / CAMPO, Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué. The video ends with the festival logo and the logos of the main sponsors. In the last picture the call: ‘Tickets now available at www.impulsefestival.de’

Impulse Meets ...
Showcase

Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (DARUM)

[EOL]. End of Life

18. June – 6. July

Showcase
Post-West

fachbetrieb rita grechen and MFK Bochum

Via Regia

6.–29. June

Impulse Meets ...

FESTIVALFRIENDS

FRIENDS ONLY? KONFRIENDS 2025

19.–20. June

Post-West

hannsjana

Tyrannosaurus Regina

19.–20. June

Showcase

Hendrik Quast

Hairkunft

19.–21. June

Showcase

Jaha Koo / CAMPO

Haribo Kimchi

20.–21. June

Showcase

Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué

Four Walls and a Roof

21. June

Post-West

Anna Zett, Joshua Wicke with Tamara Antonijević, Waltraud Blischke, Anna Bromley, Jule Flierl, Matti Gajek, Agathe Israel, Dana Kavelina, Elske Rosenfeld, Manuel Sekóu, Shelly Silver, Günter Baby Sommer, Gabriele Stötzer

Neues Forum der Töne

26.–28. June

Showcase

Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula

blue nile to the galaxy around olodumare

27. June

Showcase

Simone Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen

Autsch – Warum geht es mir so dreckig?

27.–28. June

Impulse Meets ...

Impilo Mapantsula

Workshop

28. June

Impulse Meets ...

Impilo Mapantsula

Wafa Wafa

28. June

Showcase

Arkadi Zaides / Institut des Croisements

The Cloud

28.–29. June

Showcase

Claire Cunningham

Songs of the Wayfarer

3.–4. July

Post-West

Die Ost-West-AG

Radikal intuitiv und total regional

3.–5. July

Impulse Meets ...

FREISCHWIMMEN & Cheers for Fears in co-operation with The Embassy

Symposium

4. July

Impulse Meets ...

In co-operation with FREISCHWIMMEN & Cheers for Fears

The Embassy

5. July

Showcase

Studio Urbanistan

Somewhere there's war

4.–6. July

Post-West

les dramaturx

Bitter Fields

4. July

Showcase

Jen Rosenblit

ElseWhere Rhapsody

5.–6. July

The Impulse Festival 2025 is organised and supported by the NRW KULTURsekretariat, together with the cities of Düsseldorf, Cologne and Mülheim an der Ruhr, in cooperation with the FFT Düsseldorf, studiobühneköln and Ringlokschuppen Ruhr. The festival is significantly supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Kunststiftung NRW.