NO LIMITS 2024

Disability & Performing Arts Festival

In its eleventh edition, NO LIMITS takes a boundary-breaking look at theater and dance from around the world. Germany's largest and most important festival for Disability & Performing Arts shows what happens when the question of accessibility forms the basis of creative processes and artists with disabilities not only participate but take the lead in all artistic functions.

20 theater, dance, and performance groups from 12 countries in more than 40 performances make up a twelve-day diverse program at Theater Thikwa, as well as HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Ballhaus Ost, the RambaZamba Theater, and for the first time at Theater an der Parkaue.

With fine humor, the feminist collective hannsjana and Theater Thikwa tackle a difficult topic: Who wants to have a baby and shouldn't? And who doesn't want to have babies but should? Big questions about reproduction, parenthood, and care, which here become an entertaining and thought-provoking manifesto of self-empowerment.

It's about stepping into the world, which is a stage, with tanzbar_bremen. What am I willing to show, and what emerges when I take off my beautiful dress? A space of possibilities for the self and togetherness.

How many voices does a person need? Especially when one's own voice fails more and more? The Schauspielhaus Wien asks questions about body images and self-representation in infinitely many facets. Discursive, sometimes funny, touching, and always light-footed.

With their performances developed specifically for the festival, Anna Berndtson and Yingmei Duan connect the five NO LIMITS venues spread across the city. Stage space meets public space. Visitors are involved with all their senses.