schrit_tmacher justdance! Festival | NL THIKRA – Night to Remember Akram Khan bids farewell to his own company — and he does so anything but quietly. Seen by Klaus Dilger Thikra: Night of Remembering, the final work Akram Khan has created for his Akram Khan Company, wants to be everything one last time: ritual, [...]

MARCOS MORAU AND JAN MARTENS SURVIVING IN A SURREAL WORLD With its double bill WILDSONG, NDT 1 delivered another highlight of the schrit_tmacher justdance! Festival 2026, playing to a completely sold-out Parkstad Limburg Theatre in Heerlen. By Klaus Dilger There is little doubt that the two companies of the Nederlands Dans Theater rank among [...]

schrit_tmacher 2026 Our VideoimpressionsSasha Waltz & Guests with IN C Together with Philzuid, they unhinge the sense of time at Theater Heerlen By Thomas Linden Even sixty years after its creation, Terry Riley’s composition In C remains a challenge. Today it is considered a kind of foundational text of minimal music. In his notation, [...]

schrit_tmacher 2026 Sasha Waltz & Guests with IN C Together with Philzuid, they unhinge the sense of time at Theater Heerlen By Thomas Linden Even sixty years after its creation, Terry Riley’s composition In C remains a challenge. Today it is considered a kind of foundational text of minimal music. In his notation, the [...]

schrit_tmacher Festival 2025 in Heerlen NOTHING MORE Dance and music join hands without squeezing them: Japanese composer Saburo Teshigawara's ‘Garden in the Sky’ at Heerlen Theatre, a performance with cellist Jonathan Roozeman and dancer Rihoko Sato, was a satisfyingly airy experience by Melanie Suchy Between heaven and earth or top and root, air and [...]

schrit_tmacher festival 2025 DANCE ROCK CONCERT 420People presents: The Watcher in the "Fabrik Stahl Bau Strang" in Aachen by Thomas Linden  Are we being monitored? It goes without saying that we find ourselves in a web of observation, control and surveillance. Every little digital reaction leaves traces and there are more and more of [...]

schrit_tmacher justdance! Ornamental aesthetic B.Dance shows: Before we say goodbye at the Kerkrade Theatre Speichern By Thomas Linden  For Rick Takvorian, every performance at this year's schrit_tmacher festival may be an opportunity to remember the beginnings. After all, it is the 30th and last edition under his direction. In front of a full house [...]

schrit_tmacher justdance! Festival 2025 A distant view into new territory The Fabien Prioville Dance Company creates powerful images in their ‘Power Moves’ at the Stahlbau Strang factory in Aachen. But is that enough? By: Harff-Peter Schönherr Deep darkness that is only dimly lit. Emptiness that only fills imperceptibly. Five people pace a square, as [...]