About OFEN

Through a creative residency at RITCS (Belgium), Gala Moody and Michael Carter create Cie.OFEN to research creative ideas and develop better ways of making art. 

OFEN’s debut work One Final Evolutionary Note premieres at the the Aerowaves’ Spring Forward festival (Umeå, Sweden) and also saw OFEN selected by Aerowaves as a priority company in 2014.

OFEN made a giant leap into what became The Vase. An evening length dance/theatre work about the destruction and power of love. The Vase pre-premiered in Wim Vandekeybus’ Ulti’mates Festival (Kortrijk, Belgium) and premiered at die bôrse Wuppertal in June 2017.

New People (2019), OFEN’s first group work, is co-produced by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and OFEN.  New People is a work that tackles the theme of choreography as social practice and was presented as a triptych; including a sculptural work (New People 1.0) and a performance work (New People 3.0) both presented at UNDERGROUND IV, a film work (New People 2.0) presented at Dance Screen 2019 + Tanzrauschen Festival.

OFEN hosts a Youth Symposium as part of the Under Construction Festival Wuppertal. Working with the students from two local schools via the medium of text message, the students exchange video, voice and picture messages in conversation about their ideas for the future and their own personal utopias.  The film Wupper-topia depicts the project and premieres in the live-stream festival broadcast.

Gala and Michael are shortlisted to be co-artistic directors of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

OFEN changes its name, from Cie.OFEN to OFEN Co-Arts Platform, to better reflect it’s function.

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OFEN offers a 10 week series of discussion groups online called “How Do You Respond?“. 

Celebrating 10 years, OFEN focusses on activism in the arts creating resources, aligning with other EU based activism groups, and mentoring individuals and institutions through ethical practises and new ways of structuring dance work. 

OFEN presents How Do You Respond? at the Tanzkongress in Mainz, Germany