PROGRAM FRANKFURT
SOLOCOREOGRAFICO
SOLO DANCE FESTIVAL - Frankfurt 2026
19 - 25 October GALLUS THEATER & Mal Seh'n Kino
Thursday, 22.10.2026 - 20:00 Uhr
SOLOCOREOGRAFICO FILM NIGHT
Dance Film program, short formats
Location: Mal Seh'n Kino
Adlerflychtstr. 6, Backyard, 60318 Frankfurt
Friday & Saturday, 23 & 24.10.2025 - 20:00 Uhr
Sunday, 25.10.2025 - 19:00 Uhr
SOLOCOREOGRAFICO MAIN STAGE & Award Ceremony
12 of the dance artists selected from the global call for application, among 700 candidates worldwide.
The audience will vote for the best dance solo of the evening program
Additionally on Saturday night an international Jury of dance professionals will award the
"Best Creation" & "Best Performance"
Opening with three young dance artists from our YOUTH Dance Program.
"L' AME" choreography Valentina Militano, dance Francesca Scalercio (Italy)
"FRAGILE LINES" choreography Deniz Alp, dance Duru Duygu Usta (Türkiye)
"NO ALGORITHM" choreography Lucy Briaschi, dance Zelia Rosa (Italy)
“COURAGE. BAD LUCK DOESN'T EXIST” choreography C.ia Vidavé , dance Matteo Vignali (Italy)
A physical introspection on fear, bad luck, and lost courage.
“ONCE UPON A DREAM” choreography and dance Aleksandra Kuś (Poland)
A solo about the journey before awakening, between chance and fate.
“QUE CELA SUIVE SON COURS (voilà la catastrophe)” choreography and dance Artémis Cousinié-Escriva (France)
An unstoppable fall through history, after Walter Benjamin and Mahmoud Darwish.
"OBLIVION” choreography and dance Clara Thierry (North Cyprus / Switzerland )
A journey through memory, loss, and the traces that remain.
- Break -
“CONFRONTATION” choreography Özgür Adam Inanç, dance Destan Tesdan (Türkiye)
Caught between light and shadow, a dance of inner opposites.
“DEW" choreography and dance Pommelien Van Hees (Belgium)
Between clarity and rapture: a body in ritual liminality.
"REPLICANT" choreography Eduardo Vallejo, dance Michela Lanteri (Spain / Italy)
Between desire and exhaustion: a dance on transhumanism and freedom.
“ODILE” choreography Caterina Mochi Sismondi, dance Angel Villa (Italy, Mexico)
Odile, the black swan: a study in seduction, deception, and dark beauty.
Entstanden aus der einwöchigen Residenz Solocoreografico Creative (19.–23.10.2026).
>>> The Audience and the International Jury will vote for the assignement of the Awards.
The Award winners will be announced in the Theater Foyer.
Saturday 25.10.2026 - 15:00 Uhr
SOLOCOREOGRAFICO TALK - Panel discussion: "How it started? How will it continue?"
Three directors of international dance events discuss how their formats came about and how they have kept them alive for the dance scene over the years.
Panel discussion with Austin Hartel (Oklahoma International Dance Festival), Helmut Jochheim (International Choreography Competition Hannover), Zihni Tümer, Director of the CerModern Contemporary Art Museum and Solo Dance Festival in Ankara.
(Free admission, in English)
Sunday 25.10.2026 - 15:00 Uhr
SOLOCOREOGRAFICO YOUTH Dance Show
Young dancers coming from Germany and abroad between 12 and 18+ dance students, presents their solo choreography on stage.
An International Jury of professionals will select three young dancers that will be joining the next edition of SOLOCOREOGRAFICO 2026 in Torino - Italy, during the professional evening program "MAIN STAGE"
Saturday & Sunday, 24 & 25.10.2026
SOLOCOREOGRAFICO DANCE WORKSHOPS
> Free admission with registration required, for dance pupils aged 12 and up, and dance students over 18.
Registration at solocoreografico@gmail.com <
Saturday 24.10.2026
10:00 - 11:15
Contemporary dance, level open, with MATTEO VIGNALI (Italy)
Choreographer and dancer for Compagnia Vidavé - Italy
11:30 - 12:45
Acro Floorwork, level open, with ANGEL VILLA (Italy)
Performer for Compagnia blucinQue, di Caterina Mochi Sismondi - Italy
13:30 - 14:45
Contemporary dance, level open, with AUSTIN HARTEL (USA)
Dance professor at OU - Oklahoma University
International choreographer, artistic director of OIDF - Oklahoma International Dance Festival
Sunday 25.10.2026
10:00 -11:30
Contemporary dance, level open, with DENIZ ALP (Türkiye)
Dancer at State Opera and Ballet Ankara - MDT Modern Dance Company
Guest lecturer at Hacettepe University Ankara - State Conservatory
11:45 -13:15
Contemporary dance, level open, with Eduardo Vallejo (Spain)
Dancer, choreographer, artistic director of OMGIA Dance Company
> Free admission with registration required, for dance pupils aged 12 and up, and dance students over 18.
Registration at solocoreografico@gmail.com <
The festival was created in 2014 in Turin, Italy, by the choreographer Raffaele Irace. An independent Frankfurt edition, was created in 2018 thanks to the support of the Kulturamt Stadt Frankfurt am Main, the Kulturfonds Frankfurt Rhein-Main. The festival is organised by FREIGETANZT e.V. in collaboration with the Gallus Theater, becoming a traditional annual event in Frankfurt's dance calendar.