HERE WE ARE! Opening-Parade by Sasha Waltz & Guests and MEUTE
08/07/2025
5 min reading time
The SCHIRN is moving temporarily to Frankfurt’s Bockenheim district and will be celebrating the opening of its new location with a big parade through the city – and invites audiences to participate. The dance performance is featuring around 100 involved performers.
A democratic process in dance and music: Sasha Waltz & Guests’ „In C – Community“
The structured improvisation “In C” was developed in 2021 by the company Sasha Waltz & Guests. Since then, it has been realized in a variety of contexts. The choreography contains fifty-three variable movement figures in an innovative open structure and was intentionally not devised as a finished stage piece. “In C” is open to adaptions in all dance styles, to influences from various cultural circles, to professionals and amateurs, and to young and old. Active participants and spectators alike become part of a unique performance, which not only demonstrates the democratic principles of participation and equality, but also puts them into practice.
Sasha Waltz & Guests was established 1993 in Berlin by the choreographer, dancer, and director Sasha Waltz and the dramaturge and cultural entrepreneur Jochen Sandig. Since the spring of 2021, an independent system with a growing international community has been developed with the work “In C.” As a participative project with adaptations of the movements for amateur dancers, children, and young people, it was realized for the first time in 2022 under the name “In C – The Marl Score” in Marl (NRW) and in 2025 as “Let Amsterdam Dance” in Amsterdam.
Musical accompaniment by the band MEUTE
The procession will be accompanied by artistic interplay with the band MEUTE, consisting of eleven brass and woodwind instruments and percussion. The legendary marching band from Hamburg has developed an interpretation of the musical basis for the choreography, Terry Riley’s pioneering work of the same name, the minimal music composition “In C,” and will also play other pieces from their own repertoire.
MEUTE presents new interpretations of techno and house with brass and woodwind instruments and percussion. With the powerful combination of hypnotically insistent techno beats and expressive wind music, the band has created a unique musical genre. It separates electronic music from the DJ desk and generates the energetic impulse directly in the crowd – whether in the streets, in techno clubs, or on big international stages, from the Konzerthaus in Vienna to the Coachella music and arts festival.
“We invite our public, art lovers, and our former and future neighbors to celebrate the SCHIRN’S move with us by participating in a parade through Frankfurt’s city center and then to open the doors of the new SCHIRN in Bockenheim.”
Sebastian Baden, Director of the SCHIRN
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At 3 p.m., the parade will start at the SCHIRN at the Römer and will lead to its new interim location in Bockenheim.
At the festive opening ceremony of the SCHIRN in Bockenheim, the speakers – starting at 4:30 p.m. – will be Mayor Mike Josef, Councillor for Cultural Affairs Ina Hartwig, Director of the SCHIRN Sebastian Baden, and Martina Weinhart, curator of the project “Sasha Waltz & Guests: In C – Community.” From 5:30 p.m. onwards, there will be a dance performance of “In C” on the premises, before the evening continues from 6:30 p.m. with food and drinks by Café B by Badias and a live set by DJ ABIBA.
- 3 P.M. – Start of the parade “In C – Community” accompanied by MEUTE at the SCHIRN at the Römer
- 4 P.M. – Arrival at the new venue in Bockenheim (Gabriel-Riesser-Weg 3)
- 4:30 P.M. – Official opening with speeches by Mayor Mike Josef, Councillor for Cultural Affairs Ina Hartwig, Director of the SCHIRN Sebastian Baden & curator Martina Weinhart
- 5:30 P.M. – Dance performance “In C – Community”
- 6:30 P.M. – DJ set by ABIBA
