Renegade

Founded in Herne in 2003, Renegade was Germany's first urban dance company. 32 productions have hit the stage since then, followed invitations around the world and won numerous prices. From 2010 to 2017, under the label Renegade in Residence, the company was brought back onto the stage of the Bochum Schauspielhaus and thereby illustrated the possibilities of successful collaborations between independent theatre groups and their institutionalised counterparts. One piece each season was produced under the artistic supervision of Pottporus e.V./Renegade and integrated into the repertoire of the Schauspielhaus. "Irgendwo" (2010) choreographed by Malou Airaudo, "Ruhr-Ort" (2014) a reconstruction by Susanne Linke and "Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest" (2015) by Samir Akika are mentionable highlights of this collaboration.

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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  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.