Anna Till / situation productions: IMPOSSIBLE HORIZONS

What lies behind the facades, walls, and closed windows? What horizons open up where we long ago stopped looking for them?

IMPOSSIBLE HORIZONS is a site-specific dance performance in public space and a German-Czech co-production by the situation productions company. An international team of dancers from Prague, Dresden, and Berlin invites the audience on a journey through the Háje neighborhood, where familiar surroundings reveal themselves from a new perspective.

Five performers move through the streets, buildings, rooftops, and courtyards, entering into a dialogue with the city, which is in constant motion. Dance becomes an opportunity to step away from familiar perspectives and view the surrounding space with fresh eyes.

The choreography also draws on material gathered during interviews with local residents about their experiences with housing. The city transforms into a stage set in which windows, walls, and facades give voice to their stories, and familiar places take on new meanings.

Artistic Direction, Choreography: Anna Till

Dramaturgy, Text: Nora Otte

Costume and Set Design: Konstanze Grotkopp

Choreographic Collaboration: Romy Schwarzer

Performers: Odbayar Batsuuri, Daria Belous, Agáta Jarošová, Štěpána Nlasa Mfuta, Romy Schwarzer

Music Consultation: Johannes Till

Producer: situation productions

Production management: Ulrike Melzwig / situation productions

Production Assistant: Levio Murr

Czech production: DanceConnected

Production coordination in Prague: Veronika Hladká / DanceConnected

Social Media Support: Josefine Luka Simonsen

A production by Anna Till / situation productions in co-production with Societaetstheater (Dresden), DanceConnected (Prague), and the Festival 4+4 Days in Motion (Prague). 

Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (this initiative is co-financed by tax revenue based on the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament), the City of Dresden – Office for Culture and Monument Protection, the German-Czech Future Fund, and the Dresden Foundation for Arts and Culture of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden. 

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

DanceConnected – with the support of: State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic, Prague 11 Municipal District, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, City of Prague

4+4 days in Motion - with the support of: State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, City of Prague

Special thanks to the residents of Háje who shared their experiences and memories with us, and to everyone who helped us during the preparation of the project in Prague 11.

situation productions

The Dresden-based dance company situation productions, under the artistic direction of Anna Till, creates productions at the intersection of dance, performance and installation. The company’s work is characterised by a particular interest in the intertwining of past and present, as well as a passion for interdisciplinary experimentation. At the heart of this are humour, sensuality and a poetic approach to the world around us.

Most recently, the company created the pieces SWAN LAKE IN SNEAKERS (2023), a production for young audiences that was invited to the DANCE PLATFORM GERMANY in 2024, CIRCLING (2023), a piece for five dancers and a live band in co-production with Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig and HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts Dresden, and EYES OPEN, EYES CLOSED (2025), a dance piece about ageing, which premiered at HELLERAU Dresden.

Dramaturg and director Nora Otte, set and costume designer Konstanze Grotkopp, musician Johannes Till, lighting designer Martin Mulik and producer Ulrike Melzwig are integral members of the artistic team.

Anna Till

Anna Till studied Dance, Context, Choreography at the Inter-University Centre for Dance in Berlin and Applied Cultural Studies in Lüneburg. She works as a choreographer and dancer based in Dresden and develops dance productions with a focus on international exchange, artistic collaboration, interdisciplinarity and an exploration of dance history.

Since 2017, she has been the Artistic Director of the Dresden-based dance company situation productions. In 2021, she joined forces with Barbara Lubich to form TILL&LUBICH. She has worked with, amongst others, Christina Ciupke (undo, redo & repeat), Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft (ENDE, Alles auf Anfang), Fabrice Mazliah and the guts company. 

Anna has led numerous discussion and exchange formats in the field of dance, as well as outreach projects in academic and dance education contexts. She is an active member of TanzNetzDresden and villa/wigman.

Since 2015 Anna has been in close collaboration with Slovak and Czech artists as well as venues. The dance pieces FLAT SCREAM (2015) and undo, redo and repeat - a TANZFONDS ERBE project (2016) were presented at PONEC Theatre Prague and the slovak-italian-german production Lost in creation (2018) was developed in cooperation with Košice Artists in Residence (K.A.I.R.) and Tabačka Kulturfabrik Košice.