Once again this year, exceptional talents from the Stuttgart dance and performance scene will present their work as a prelude to the International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival. The programme is located at the interface of different forms of dance and movement art and reflects the quality and creativity of the local scene. The pieces in the SOLO CHOREO are not in competition with the international festival competition and are not awarded prizes.


Programme 

Who hurt you?
Choreography & Performance: Jonas Florian

The piece explores the process of forgiveness - toward others, but above all toward oneself. It reflects the inner conflict between grief, anger, shame, and the longing to release feelings of guilt. The solo traces the emotional journey of an individual who learns to accept their own mistakes and let them go. Forgiveness is not a single act, but a process—a dance with oneself. Only by forgiving oneself can true freedom be found. A gesture of love, hope, and courage.


Something makes her walk
Choreography: Sawako Nunotani
Performance: Daura Hernández García

We know how to walk.
Is that really true?
She questions the process of walking.
She asks herself: Am I walking the way I want to, or am I walking toward an environment I already know?
This short piece focuses on the process through which our inner will and decisions lead to actions.


The day I journaled about that Cataclysmic event
Choreography & Performance: Stella Covi 

Sneakers, cap, urban outfit. Zero. Voice and body share equal presence on stage, merging rhythm, sound, and movement into a single expressive field. This solo explores a return to raw, unfiltered physicality, with the voice as its most revealing and vulnerable extension. It follows Zero, a character at a decisive turning point, moving through fragmented memories and futuristic visions in a suspended, imagined space. Curious, bold, and unafraid of imperfection, Zero balances vulnerability and play. An invitation to inhabit a liminal space where each gesture becomes an act of remembering.


Walking away from an explosion in slow motion
Choreography: Zina Vaessen, Selina Koch
Performance: Selina Koch

This solo explores how sudden ruptures resonate within the body. In pared-down, powerful images, dancer Selina Koch reveals both instinctive and belated responses, searching for ways to transform fear. Can the fragile threshold be reached where fear no longer results in paralysis but becomes a force of metamorphosis? The stage turns into a laboratory for creatively confronting destructiveness.


UPLOAD
Choreography: Ioannis Edgar Avetikyan
Performance: Gilda De Vecchis 

UPLOAD is a dance solo exploring the many dimensions of waiting. From everyday pauses at a bus stop, for a message, or a job application reply, it stretches to deeper waits such as: for the world to change, for peace, for crises to end, for the earth to heal, or for a mother to finally say “I love you.” A large scarf, inspired by The Little Prince, weaves through the dance as a symbol of hope and the invisible threads connecting our desires to the future.


back2before
Choreography & Performance: Martina Gunkel
Music/DJ: Janic Carmona alias Baldman C. 

I want to feel. Surrender.
Being carried away.
The beat, our flesh,
my beating heart.
Connected.