One week to immerse yourself in the art of the moment.

onCe festival freiburg -
THE FESTIVAL FOR INSTANT COMPOSITION

Every two years, the onCe festival freiburg celebrates the diversity and richness of improvised performance art.
The festival offers two-day workshops, evening performances and a dynamic supporting program.
Under the title onCe, additional exciting formats are regularly offered in connection with the festival: see Open Stage and Workshops.

WHAT IS INSTANT COMPOSITION

Instant composition has a tradition in Freiburg that goes back to the 1980s and for which it is internationally renowned.
Within the performance art of improvisation – or in other words the ART OF A MOMENT IN TIME - a piece is created before the eyes of the audience. The actors simultaneously create material, compose and perform. In the moment, they follow impulses and shape them through space and time. INSTANT COMPOSITIONS unfold which are unpredictable, lively and unique in their content and expression.

onCe festival freiburg 2025

onCe festival freiburg will take place from May 19 to 25, 2025!

onCe festival freiburg 2023

From 15. till 21.05.2023 the onCe festival allowed various art forms of instant composition to blossom: dance, live music, action theater, writing and contact improvisation.

IT WAS AWESOME AND WONDERFUL!
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED!

The PROGRAM for workshops and performances can be found HERE.

IMPRESSIONS can be found right below in our PICTURES and TEXT GALLERY. After photos of a performance you will also find one or more dance texts. These lively texts about the evening performances were created during the workshop Moving Texts with Thaddäus Maria Jungmann. The workshop participants have conquered methods to look at pieces and to develop creative texts.

The onCe instant composition Festival Freiburg 2023 could be realized thanks to friendly support. We would like to thank the city of Freiburg, the Regierungspräsidium Freiburg, the Sparkasse Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau, the Tanznetz Freiburg gUG and the Ewerk Freiburg. 

The onCe instant composition Festival Freiburg 2023 could be realized thanks to friendly support. We would like to thank the city of Freiburg, the Regierungspräsidium Freiburg, the Sparkasse Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau, the Tanznetz Freiburg gUG and the Ewerk Freiburg.

DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS

Feel free to contact once@bewegungs-art.de.

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