Advance ticket sales for the highlights
Tickets are now available
Advance ticket sales for the 11 highlights of the festival programme have begun. Tickets are now available. As always, all ‘early birds’ can take advantage of our 10% early-bird discount until 8 May inclusive. We are offering a ‘Down Under Special’ for performances by the Australian companies Circa and Gravity & Other Myths.
Highlights
2026
This is the
2026 festival
With the momentum of our spectacular 35th anniversary last year still fresh in our minds and hearts, we look forward to kicking off the next festival season in 2026 with renewed energy.
In the theatre tent on Burgplatz, where the heart of the festival truly beats, we will once again encounter top-class international productions, loyal artistic partners and promising newcomers. We will experience acrobatics, dance and music that make us forget time and space, that captivate, move and enchant us.
With the Australian ensembles ‘Circa’ and ‘Gravity & Other Myths’, we welcome two of the world’s finest contemporary circus troupes. For the first time, we are presenting contemporary circus in a church. To mark the occasion, we are offering a special ticket package with the “Down Under Special”.
Scandinavian contemporary circus also has a place in the festival once again. The young Swedish company “Below Zero” is making its German debut with us.
The internationally acclaimed choreographers Hofesh Shechter and Sharon Eyal, who are performing here for the first time with their company ‘S-E-D’, use dance to celebrate life and the accompanying ‘rollercoaster of emotions’.
Mourad Merzouki returns with ‘CIE. Käfig’ and opens the festival with ‘Pixel’, a classic that has been acclaimed worldwide for the past 12 years.
With Oum, Nubya Garcia, Mehdi Nassouli and the vocal ensemble ‘Lyyra’, we are delighted to welcome musicians who could not be more different – yet they are all united by the power of music and the force of renewal.
Following the overwhelming success of our production ‘MASS’, we will once again be presenting a festival finale this year in December with the musical ‘Christmas Tale’ at St. John’s Church..
Welcome to the Düsseldorf Festival 2026!
We look forward to seeing you.
Christiane Oxenfort and Andreas Dahmen
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Internship in the production team (M/F/D)
The internship positions in the production team are already filled for 2025.
The internship in the production team (10 people) is all about smooth processes, forward-looking solution ideas and creative design options. In the first few days, the production team supports the completion of the theater tent and lays the foundation for the festival period.
