On this special evening before the big party, you can get in the mood for the next day’s dances in various workshops. At the same time, it is a good opportunity to take in the festively designed Bauhaus Building in a quiet atmosphere.
This includes lectures, installations, film and music. Anyone who still needs blue accessories for the parade can make them that evening under instruction.
Opening Bauhaus Festival 2024
Speakers:
Dr Barbara Steiner, Director and CEO of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Dr Sebastian Putz, State Secretary for Culture of Saxony-Anhalt
Dr Robert Reck, Lord Mayor of the City of Dessau-Roßlau
Burghard Duhm, Curator Bauhaus Festival
Choo Choo Bande
// Performance
The Choo Choo Bande (Choo Choo Gang) plays a clownish game and organises dance with bodies, instruments and objects. The clown collective has named itself after Duke Ellington’s 1924 jazz song of the same name. 100 years later, the clowns dance to a version by “Bob Hunt’s Duke Ellington Orchestra” from 2006.
Spaces of Motion
// Spatial design
An experimental dance space that blurs the boundaries between stage and audience and immerses you in a spatial experience of movement. Developed by students of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Media / Civil Engineering, Architecture programme
Fri, 7 pm
> Bauhaus stage, ground floor, auditorium
((The speeches will be translated into sign language.))
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Curatorial tour in sign language
Andrea Schmegel with Burghard Duhm
Fri, 7:30–8 pm
> Meeting point: Bauhaus Building, ground floor, visitors centre
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On the road with the Electric Cinema
// Film screening
The Schaubühne Lindenfels Leipzig electric car travels to Dessau. It has cinema art on board and shows a short film programme of films from the 1920s with and without soundtracks from the Deutsche Kinemathek collection. Some of the films will be accompanied musically by the duo Jan Tengeler and Rolf Springer with guitar, double bass, accordion and percussive elements.
Fri, 8:30 pm + 9:30 pm + 10:30 pm
> Bauhaus Building, outdoor space under the bridge
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Jules Ahoi & Band:
“MAGNOLIA (The Bauhaus Tapes)”
// Release concert
In February 2023, Jules Ahoi lived and worked in the historic Moholy-Nagy House as part of the Bauhaus Residency. During this time, the Cologne native worked on new pieces of music and was inspired by the history, atmosphere and spirit of this special place. The album “MAGNOLIA (The Bauhaus Tapes)” is the result of this intensive creative phase.
The album will be released on 6 September 2024 and will celebrate its live premiere at the Bauhaus Festival weekend.
Line-up
Jules Ahoi – vocals, guitar
Muriel Bonn – cello, bass
Ornella Tobar-Gaete – violin, keys, electric guitar
Johannes Rüther – drums
Joris van Treeck – bass, electric guitar
Fri, 10–11 pm
> Bauhaus Building, souterrain, café-bistro