The TanzDialoge took place for the first time in Bremen in 2020 and have since established themselves as an annual platform for artistic discussion and exchange between Bremen-based dance professionals. The TanzDialoge are a project of the Tanzinitiative network within the Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Bremen (LAFDK). TanzDialoge #7 is the continuation and deepening of the dialogue series, which enables synergy effects, revitalization, and encounters within the Bremen dance scene in a shared format.

Each edition of TanzDialoge is dedicated to a specific focus. In 2026, the focus will be on collaboration between dancers and scientists. Two dancers develop a piece together on a theme – inspired by an input from an expert. Whether natural sciences, philosophy, education or linguistics: current topics are given a new, sensorial experiential form of expression through dance. Movement opens up surprising perspectives on familiar questions and enables low-threshold access to complex discourses.

TanzDialoge #07 on November 7 and 8, 2026, at Schaulust (Bremen), featuring:
Janne Schröder + Kamil Mualem on inclusive education
Leonie Greta Hardt + Tim Gerhards on Mars research/habitat
Valeria Cordes + Karl Rummel on Mars research/materials science
Antonio Papazis + Lidia Melnikova on philosophy
Markus Hoft + Stina Hinrichs on marine biology

The following scientists and researchers will accompany the dancers:

- Anna-Lena Cohrs is a dancer and philosopher. Dance taught her everything about the world and other people and gave her direct access to reality. In reality, however, we still do not know what is real and what it means. We ask: What is truth? What is love? What is abundance? What is bliss? What is wisdom? What is being? What is a human being? What are you? What am I? And who are we? Western philosophy has been grappling with these mysteries for over 2000 years. We know countless different answers to these questions. Anna-Lena Cohrs feels that all answers ultimately revolve around the same thing, and she is convinced from experience that dance can at least show us what we are revolving around.

- Prof. Lucio Colombi Ciacchi: Lucio Colombi Ciacchi's research focuses on interfaces—those subtle transitions where bodies meet, touch, and start moving. Atoms and molecules vibrate, glide, repel each other, and find new formations. His work reveals how countless microscopic movements, through a silent choreography beneath the surface, determine the behavior and properties of materials. When materials collide, a dialogue of rhythm, proximity, and distance emerges—matter is something alive: an ensemble of particles that reacts to interactions, learns, and changes.

- Dr. Christiane Heinicke is a physicist and engineer who is fascinated by the challenges of living under extreme conditions. Her research focuses on systems and infrastructure for humans in extraterrestrial environments. Since 2017, she has been working at the Center for Applied Spaceflight and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen, where, among other things, she has built a demonstrator for the laboratory module of a habitat on Mars using the “MaMBA” laboratory. Today, she is the scientific coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Mars Perspective – Resource Scarcity as the Basis for a Paradigm of Sustainability” and project leader of the “MarsProductionLab,” a facility where future production under Mars-like conditions can be researched.

- Dr. Christina Roggatz is a young scientist and environmental biochemist (something between an environmental chemist, biochemist, and marine biologist). Many processes in the sea, as well as the interactions and communication between marine organisms, are based on chemistry. Christina Roggatz is interested in how processes controlled by small biomolecules can take place under the highly variable ocean conditions of today and in the ocean of the future. In recent years, she has already discovered that the “molecular language” changes with future ocean conditions and that signaling substances no longer function as they do today. Her research focuses on changeable molecules, environmental conditions in the sea, and fundamental processes of communication and function.

- Prof. Dr. Anja Starke conducts research at the University of Bremen on the linguistic and communicative participation of students in inclusive schools. On the one hand, she addresses the question of how teachers can adequately assess students' linguistic and communicative abilities and use this information to design support programs. On the other hand, she is concerned with the connection between linguistic and social-emotional development, especially in students with language development disorders. A topic close to her heart is selective mutism, a phenomenon in which children remain silent in certain situations even though they are actually able to speak.