We are delighted to be part of the festival again and welcome the Dormund Sprechchor and the Queere Theater Kollektiv to our theatre on Friday, 10 October 2025. Information about the plays can be found here and on the festival website.

All events at the szene machen! Festival 2025 are free of charge. Due to limited capacity, we kindly ask you to reserve your desired performance via rausgegangen. Links can be found on the respective event pages – but we have also linked everything for you – just click on Tickets next door and make your reservation.

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Choral speaking is solidarity in sound. The individual voice is only powerful, fragile, moving or irritating in harmony with the others. But this harmony is not ‘solid’, but liquid, fluid. It can be a wall, like in a stadium – and yet disintegrate as quickly as a wave. The voices bubble apart and come together again. In a speaking choir, we belong together, listen to each other and to one another in a light, flowing connection.

In this workshop, we want to create a speaking choir together, using our voices and the flowing sound of the lap steel guitar. Let's break down the boundaries. Everyone can join in, no experience necessary.

An interactive showcase brings to life how the intermedia performance ‘NeuroQueer-Vortex’ combines immersive stage technologies – from live cameras to digital light and sound design – with neuroqueer aesthetics to create a fluid space for experimentation. Digital worlds and neuroqueer identities merge to form new forms of expression. In an open Q&A session, perspectives on the interplay of technology, identity and aesthetic practice are explored – beyond normative ideas and towards new spaces of possibility.

The Queere Theater Kollektiv works interdisciplinarily between performance, digital art, technology and socio-political practice. With a focus on queer-feminist perspectives, it develops new aesthetic formats of digital performance art. For the festival, Darbyn Kalkuhl (artistic director) and Kevin Clever (digital artist & technical director) provide insights into the artistic and technological practice of the production ‘NeuroQueer Vortex.’ Darbyn Kalkuhl combines conceptual direction with body-based performance practice; Kevin Clever designs interactive systems and visual stage spaces between theatre, coding and design.

offers a diverse, interactive and experimental programme covering all areas of the performing arts.

szene machen! showcases the vibrancy and diversity of Dortmund's local theatre, dance and performance scene at various venues. Independent theatres such as the Theater im Depot, the Fletch Bizzel and the Roto Theater open their doors for the festival. Also the Turbo Prop Theater in Hörde, the Parzelle im Depot, the Taranta Babu Kulturcafe, the  Fritz-Hüser-Institut in Lütgendortmund, the Superraum as well as the former shops „Hans A“ und „Hans C“ from Dortmund Kreativ, the STADT_RAUM at Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, the sozioökologische Zentrum (SÖZ) in the Nordstadt and the .dott.werk in Kaiserviertel are hosting this year. Within a cooperation with  0+1 Festival für Diversität und Komplexität teh Festival will be opened.