Renegade

Current Productions

Kompagnie

Founded in Herne in 2003, Renegade immediately managed to gain a place in the European off-theater scene with its first project, “Rumble”, a HipHop interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic “Romeo and Juliet”. After much acclaimed victories at NRW Theaterzwang 2004 and the international Fringe Festival 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the crew started touring through Europe and joined the Harare Festival in Zimbabwe, Africa. The following productions “41” (2004), “Messias” (“Messiah”, 2005), “Cage” (2006) and “Extended Teenage Era – E.T.E.” (2007) focused on the approach to life of the second and third generation of immigrants. Stylistically these productions were positioned between modern dance, breakdance and HipHop, between acting and audio-visual experiments.

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Renegade works with international and national dancers, artists, choreographers and directors and sees the clash of different biographies as a motor for artistic development. Within urban and contemporary styles, autodidacts and trained stage dancers, dance tradition and hip hop culture, cross-disciplinary productions are created. Aesthetically and in terms of content their performances produce extraordinary perspectives. Renegade finds impulses for artistic work in an urban, pluralistic society - with its political discourses, personal realities, utopias, hopes and disagreements...

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In 2019 the artistic direction, which was previously handled by Pottporus managing director Zekai Fenerci, will be extended by Malou Airaudo. While the miner's son and autodidact Fenerci has been considered a driving force of the urban scene in the Ruhr area for over 20 years, Malou Airaudo, a long-time Pina-Bausch dancer, renowned choreographer and professor and director of the Centre for Contemporary Dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts, represents a strong tradition in the field of contemporary dance.

Productions 2003 - 2017