Teresa Hoffmann | Venetsiana Kalampaliki

OUT OF THE BLUE 7+

Imagine a classroom whose walls are becoming porous. Suddenly, there are holes through which the unexpected enters, whilst other things can escape. The room begins to pulsate and expand. The familiar order of things and activities is thrown into disarray.

In Out of the Blue, for the duration of the performance, the classroom becomes a choreographic toolbox. To achieve this, we start with exactly what you know and what is there: your classroom – with all its objects, the people and the activities within it. Sitting down, standing up, putting your hand up and many other daily routines and movements in the classroom form the framework. What choreographies emerge from these activities? What fantastical landscapes can emerge from the classroom? What movements do these new landscapes invite us to make?

In this way, the classroom becomes a gallery of sculptures. Turning the pages of a schoolbook gives rise to a dance.

^{Choreography and dance: Teresa Hoffmann, Venetsiana Kalampaliki
Music: Lovis Determann
Visual arts: Simone Karl} 

Flexible performance dates at the school between 30 November and 2 December 2026.
The dates and performance times will be adapted to the school’s requirements.

Are you interested in inviting the mobile Pop Up to your school or in taking part in the rehearsal process as a partner class in October and November? Please contact us at tanzplan@kampnagel.de

Teresa Hoffmann

first studied psychology in Würzburg and New York, then performance studies in Hamburg. She works as a dancer, choreographer and dance mediator. Since 2016, she has mainly focussed on producing dance pieces for and sometimes with young people. For her, the relationship and difference between the worlds of adults and children is paradigmatic of her interest in being confronted with ways of thinking, moving and feeling that she has forgotten or forgotten as an adult. The encounter of strangers of different ages and abilities is a mirror for the fine threads that connect them and for the creative power that lies hidden in these unusual connections.

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Venetsiana Kalampaliki

works in the performing arts field as a dancer and choreographer based between Hamburg and Athens. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance, the University of Athens, and the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her interdisciplinary work combines text, voice, and movement, focusing on the body in sociopolitical contexts of accessibility and inclusion. Her works have been presented at festivals such as Holland Dance Festival and Onassis Stegi. She collaborates with Rimini Protokoll, Jenny Beyer, Antje Velsinger, Anna Konjetzky, Lenio Kaklea and Iris Karayan amongst others.

In 2021–22, she was a resident choreographer at K3 – centre for choreography and attended international residency programmes in Chile and South Korea. She coordinates K3’s Professional Training programme and is involved in the European project Dance Well.

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