THE PLAYERS awarded the Dance and Theater prize of the city of Stuttgart and the land Baden-Württemberg as well as the critics prize and public prize!

Gummitwist is a nurturing program hosted by Theater Felina-Areal, Mannheim. The project is meant to support the development of 3 beginning to mid career choreographers based within in the Rhein-Neckar Region of Mannheim, Germany. Artistically directed by the Heidelberg choreographer Edan Gorlicki, Gummitwist aims to offer choreographers guidance and support towards improving their practice and craft. The focus of mentoring is on numerous layers from artistic to structural and practical. The goal is not to produce new works but rather recognize and embrace the process of growth within the work. Artists are challenged to focus on their style of work, communication skills with performers, understanding of dramaturgy, decision making, time management, publicity, how to communicate their work via text, entrepreneurial skills, how to receive feedback and how to take an external look at their work.

THE PLAYERS is a dance theater production that questions social status, manipulation, peoples’ intentions, what is reality? hierarchy? deceit? and how far are we willing to go to get what we want? THE PLAYERS is a test of power through the form of a game. However, “playing” the game is not always what it seems. Inspired by the horrifying yet magnetic charisma of psychopaths THE PLAYERS explores the cruel but often effective force of manipulation strategies.