The Migrated Body, a dance project that immerses participants in their own cultures for a week. During the summer holidays of 2025, young people up to the age of 18 were able to take part in a dance project with Ludmilla Schemak and Ekaterina Thor free of charge.
Current workshops and classes in the ROOTS & ROUTES Space.
In the queer-intersectional youth festival series “Kölnchella”, which emerged from iJuLa, various public events took place from 2022 to 2024, the largest of which was the Kölnchella Summer Festival.
parallel running workshops with exchange elements. Young people in the cities of cologne and istanbul worked together beyond national borders in autumn 2021.
Dance as you are! In the fall of 2021, young people between the ages of 14 and 18 can participate free of charge in a street dance and theater project with proven RRCGN instructors Elisa Giovannetti and Yasemin “Joya” Saat.
The hip-hop network in the Cologne-Nippes district has been organizing a workshop phase every fall since 2001, during which there are dance, music and graffiti workshops in various youth centers and schools. RRCGN has been active in the network since 2015.
The annual fall break workshop week “ROOTS & ROUTES goes Bergisch Gladbach” took place in 2020 linked to the project “iJuLa – intersectional youth labs in the Veedel”. Along the theme “Hip-Hop for Democracy”, 29 young people dealt artistically with the topic of “fear”.
Although RRCGN has a focus on international exchange work, it is also permanently active in local projects in Cologne and the surrounding area. Step1 projects are aimed at young people who want to take their first steps in trying out an art form.
The Instagram platform “Kontaktlinse” (German for “contact lense”) offers a space for artists from Cologne to present themselves and their art. Regardless of the art form, genre or professional standards, people with a creative passion are portrayed here.
Young people from urban dance scenes are confronted with big questions: how can artistic career aspirations be realised, how can their own talents and abilities be further developed? The dancers, choreographers and dance instructors Daniela Rodriguez Romero and Bahar Gökten from nutrospektif bring in their own experiences to accompany the participants within these exciting fields.