Programme
‘That was Impulse 2025!’ Changing photos from the festival show, among other things, a large cake and an open-air stage. Sociable people, laughing faces and excerpts from performances, panel discussions and parties. In between, the following quotes from newspapers:Dorothea Marcus states in Deutschlandfunk's ‘Kultur heute’ on 23 June 2025: "And so the new Impulse Festival offers extreme and cheerful theatre events, moving smoothly between industry gatherings and audience entertainment. In fact, participation in the festival seems to be more important than ever before. The Impulse Festival is trying out a new openness: between young and old, East and West."Nicole Strecker writes about Jeremy Nedd and Impilo Mapantsula in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger on 29 June 2025: "With his retro-futurism, Jeremy Nedd sends African traditions into extraterrestrial orbit and traces connections between Africa and the African diaspora. The individual Pantsula styles outdo each other in passion and energy, showing off the fastest feet and cheering lustily. Then we have arrived on the black comet of freedom."Stefan Keim comments in WDR3/WDR5 on 23 June 2025: ‘Claire Cunningham moves across the stage on crutches. How she does it is incredible. She dances with ease with her walking aids, crawls and scrambles, hikes and climbs the world. It's about mountaineering, about never giving up, about not accepting any limits as a given. “Songs of the Wayfarer” is a rousing performance.’Claudia Hötzenhofer writes in the Rheinische Post on 4 July 2024: ‘At the end of the Impulse Festival, the choreographer and singer presented her solo performance “Songs of the Wayfarer”. A touching, very emotional journey to oneself. A powerful performance that resonates.’Stefan Keim writes in Theater der Zeit on 25 June 2025: "Equally magnificent is the performative installation “[EOL]. End of Life” by Victoria Halper and Kai Kröscher (DARUM). An incredible experience that confronts anyone who wears VR glasses and enters magnificently designed and excellently scripted virtual spirit worlds with intense moral dilemmas."Dorothea Marcus stated on Deutschlandfunk on 23 June 2025: " The new Impulse focus Post-West cheerfully works on overcoming the German-German division. In the funny and educational play “Tyrannosaurus Regina”, for example, the group researched what connects East German feminism and dinosaurs. In a wonderfully ironic and macho way, real women from Mülheim dance a real line dance in real cowboy boots." At the end of the trailer, the Impulse logo appears in large letters.
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
