Projects

A full-length dance-circus work built around the Cyr Wheel as trio instrument, spatial object, and co-performer — investigating the seductive dependency between bodies and things. Three performers and one wheel move between control, surrender, and sensual utopia, drawing on contact improvisation and circus technique. Premiered at ON THE EDGE Festival Vienna, November 2024, with subsequent performances in Freiburg, Salzburg, and Berlin.

An intensive 48-hour choreographic creation under time pressure — a format that strips away everything except necessity, sharpening instinct and trust between collaborators in real time. Created by Tanzlabor Roxy Ulm, artistic direction Dana Ruttenberg, project coordination Pablo Sansalvador.

Three years of sustained collaboration with Henrietta Horn — a defining figure of German contemporary dance and longtime co-director of the Folkwang Tanzstudio alongside Pina Bausch. The work ranged from improvisation research (im Puls) to score-driven ensemble pieces at PACT Zollverein, one of the great industrial cultural venues in Europe. Horn's movement language — dynamic, built from close listening — left a lasting imprint on Brodhag's own practice as a maker.

To mark the 40th anniversary of Tanztheater Wuppertal, Brodhag was selected to perform reconstructions of three foundational Pina Bausch works — including Wind von West, unperformed since 1979. Rehearsals unfolded across two continents: Wuppertal, Essen, and the Juilliard School New York. To perform this repertoire was to enter a living transmission — body to body, from those who had danced with Bausch herself.