Regina Rossi

On a city street, two dancers, both with their right leg extended toward the sky and their left leg planted firmly on the ground. The performer on the left is dressed in red with a red fox mask, holding red pompoms with their right arm. The performer on the right wears a pink costume adorned with feathers and a silver owl mask.

Regina Rossi

POLIPOLIS

Mönckebergstraße

June 16, 2026, 10.30 h Performance for schools (please contact benjamin@tanztriennale.de for tickets)
June 16, 2026, 17.00 h
June 19, 2026, 17.00 h
Duration 60 minutes

Regular 28,-/ Reduced rate 16,- EUR
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Outdoor, Audio Walk in English and German

The exact starting point will be announced here later.

“POLIPOLIS” is a performative, intergenerational audio walk that takes place in Hamburg's city centre. Equipped with headphones, backpacks and city maps, participants discover new images and ideas for living together in the city. They observe choreographies and small scenes of mythological chimeras, listen to stories from Hamburg's history and become active themselves by trying out poses and dance steps.

“POLIPOLIS” is a utopian city – a city of dreams – where urbanity and nature belong together, animals find their place, cars have disappeared, and children and young people have the freedom to express their feelings. As in an analogue form of augmented reality, or as if on a secret journey, the audience moves through the urban space together with four dancers and two guides. Even random passers-by become spectators and are invited to become part of the action.

Regina Rossi was born and grew up in Brazil. She studied theater, choreography and performance studies in Porto Alegre, Amsterdam and Hamburg. Since 2009 Rossi lives and produces her own artistic works in Hamburg, which have been shown throughout Germany. The choreographer combines contemporary dance with popular movement cultures such as couple dance, samba or capoeira, as well as performance art and elements of pop-culture and feminist art. In many of her previous works she negotiated omnipresent Western female body images and ideals, which she opposes with her own, humorous, sensual and provocative aesthetics. Since 2018, Rossi also focusses on the production of performances and teaching of dance and performance strategies for children and young audiences.

Made possible by: Wiederaufnahme- & Gastspielförderung des Dachverbands freie darstellende Künste Hamburg aus Mitteln der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien

Concept, direction, choreography: Regina Rossi
Co-creation dance, performance: Gaëtane Douin, Marcelo Doño, Nicolás Vignolo, Nora Elberfeld
Dramaturgy: Jens Dietrich
Music, sounddesign and audioproduction: Sebastian Russ
Voice audiowalk: Pauline Schönfelder
Costumes and props: Ilona Klein
Costume assistance: Noa Noelani
Press and public relations: Hark Empen (Stückliesel)
Expert advice: Barbara Schmidt-Rohr
Hospitation: Julika Schlegel
Production management: Isabelle Rohlfs
Photos and graphic design: Christina Gotz via thirtysixshots
Photo documentation: Öncü Gültekin
Video documentation: Inshore Films
Awardee of the Hamburg Children’s Theatre Prize 2025