We warmly invite you to join the workshops of the Future Lab! Participation is free of charge.

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The Artistic Board with nora chipaumire, Adham Hafez, and Lia Rodrigues supports the Fellows in shaping the artistic direction of the Future Lab.

08:30 - 09:30
WORKSHOP
Purnendra Kumar Meshram
Arrival as we come together

09:30 - 10:30
WORKSHOP
SoKo Jena
Bodies That Remember

— Coffee & Conversations —

11:00 - 11:50
OPENING SESSION
Pina Bausch Foundation & Kunststiftung NRW
Welcome & Introduction

12:00 - 12:20
LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Ssempijja Robert
How Do You Dream Whilst Living In Uncertainty?

12:30 - 12:50
PERFORMANCE
Antonio Ssebuuma Bukhar
MUTUBA

— Break & Conversations —

13:00 - 14:30
INSTALLATION
Mohamed Yousry Shika
أثر (Athar/Trace)

14:00 - 15:00
PANEL DISCUSSION

— Coffee & Conversations —

15:15 - 15:35
RESEARCH PRESENTATION
Mounir Saeed
chaotic Harmony in our bodies and voices

15:45 - 16:05
LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Miguel Bolaños
Urkun

16:15 - 16:35
LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Oluwabukunmi Olukitibi
What Remains, What Rises: Embodied Archives for Uncertain Futures

— Coffee & Conversations —

17:00 - 18:00
LONG TABLE
Participatory Conversation

08:30 - 09:30
WORKSHOP
Danielli Nascimento Mendes
Performance To Rehearse The End Of The World

09:30 - 10:30
WORKSHOP
Kayla Hamilton
Come As You Are: Movement, Access, And Collective Practice

— Coffee & Conversations —

11:00 - 11:20
PERFORMATIVE LECTURE
Nabaggala.L.M
Bodies That Build

11:30 - 11:50
PARTICIPATIVE TRY OUT
Marie-Lena Kaiser
Lines and Walls

— Coffee & Conversations —

12:15 - 13:00
COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION

— Break & Conversations —

14:00 - 14:15
KEYNOTE
Nora Amin
From Trauma to Stage Activism: the dancing body

14:15 - 15:00
COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION

— Coffee & Conversations —

15:15 - 15:35
LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Jee-Ae Lim
Polymorphic Practice of Relation

15:45 - 16:05
PERFORMANCE
Morteza Zarei
Presentation No.01 #Chaos in a Box

16:15 - 16:35
LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Danilo Andrés
Purga

— Coffee & Conversations —

17:00 - 18:00
LONG TABLE
Participatory Conversation

08:30 - 09:30
WORKSHOP
Marc Philipp Gabriel
The Octopus

09:30 - 10:30
WORKSHOP
Lee Méir
Being with Making

— Coffee & Conversations —

11:00 - 11:20
PRESENTATION
Aida Rodríguez
Dancing at 90

11:30 - 11:50
PRESENTATION
Darion Adams
More, more, more

12:00 - 12:20
PRESENTATION
Sarah Brahim
the dance of the future

12:30 - 13:00
PANEL
Pina Bausch Foundation & Kunststiftung NRW
Looking Into The Future

— Break & Conversations —

14:00 - 14:15
KEYNOTE
Iréne Hultman Monti

14:15 - 15:00
COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION

15:00 - 15:50
WORKSHOP
Martha Hincapié Charry
Earth Bodies - Environmental Grief

16:00 - 16:20
PERFORMANCE
Ade Suharto
The Living Room : Where the Work Lives

16:30 - 16:50
PERFORMANCE
NEVE
"...And that's the whole dream (Chihololli)"

— Coffee & Conversations —

17:15 - 18:30
PLENARY SESSION
Closing: Summation & Call For Action

22 – 24 May 2026 | Wuppertal

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography, the Pina Bausch Foundation and Kunststiftung NRW invite you to the Fellowswhip Future Lab on the future of artistic practice in Wuppertal. In the anniversary year 2026, the fellowship programme will deliberately pause to create space for reflection, exchange, and collective learning.

From 22 to 24 May 2026, fellows from different generations, international guests, and members of the local dance and cultural scene will come together to share experiences from ten years of the fellowship and to jointly reflect on how artistic practice shifts, opens up, and transforms under changing political, social, and economic conditions. Within the Future Lab, fellows from previous cohorts will shape the programme through keynotes, performative contributions, and discussion formats. Insights generated during the Future Lab will inform both the development of the emerging Pina Bausch Center and the future orientation of the fellowship programme.

The event will take place at the former Schauspielhaus / future Pina Bausch Center in Wuppertal - Bundesallee 260, 42103 Wuppertal.

The Pina Bausch Fellowship Future Lab is an event organized by the Pina Bausch Foundation and Kunststiftung NRW. As a contribution to the preparation of the Pina Bausch Centre, the Future Lab is additionally supported with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the City of Wuppertal.