Name: The Art of Community - Artistic Encounter Formats
Start: 2026-09-12T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-12T20:00:00+02:00
Location: FFT Düsseldorf

A Festival as a Living Laboratory of Encounter

With The Art of Community, FFT Düsseldorf opens a space for theater, conversation, workshops, and social movement. Within the framework of Claiming Common Spaces, artists, initiatives, and audiences meet in a format that expands the stage: in foyer, forecourt, and foyer situations where art is not only presented but collectively negotiated.

Community as Artistic Practice

The Alliance of International Production Houses brings its experiences from international performing arts and local contexts into a multifaceted encounter format. Here, community is not only discussed but actively worked on. Migrantpolitan, Hools of Fashion, Through our Eyes, Konrad-Lunch, and Dance like nobody’s watching – remixed each open their own aesthetic worlds: between street couture, cinematic self-empowerment, neighborhood exchange, and a dance floor that consciously pushes back social hierarchies.

An Evening That Thinks of the City as a Stage

The blend of urban proximity and artistic precision is particularly striking. FFT Düsseldorf becomes a resonance space for voices, bodies, and perspectives that rarely meet so directly. The dramaturgy of this pre-reporting suggests a stage experience that focuses more on participation than on distance. The audience experiences the theatrical atmosphere not as a rigid form, but as an open structure of perception, conversation, and movement.

Accessibility as Part of the Staging

FFT in KAP1 is designed for accessibility: elevators, barrier-free pathways, accessible restrooms, and a relaxation room support a visit that takes different needs seriously. The connection via Düsseldorf Central Station and Worringer Platz also facilitates access. This infrastructure is more than just comfort: it embodies the house's approach of understanding art as a shared experience.

What Visitors Can Expect

Those who visit The Art of Community will not experience a classic uniform format, but a cleverly composed series of artistic encounters. Between conversation, performance, fashion show, film, and dance, a vibrant image emerges of how contemporary theater, participatory art, and social practice stimulate each other. This festival invites you to be there live and to feel the power of shared experience immediately.