Commemorative event: Liberation Dance
When: Thursday, 08.05.2025, 18:00 – 19:00 h
Where: Marketplace Bremen
Europe-wide flash mob to commemorate 80 years since the end of the Second World War
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe with the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht.
It commemorates the liberation from National Socialism and the devastating war with over 60 million dead.
The Liberation Dance will be performed as a flash mob on May 8 as part of the tri-national project “Nazi injustice ‘Degenerate Music’. Persecuted swing dancers and jazz musicians in north-west Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland”.
The title “Jeepers Creepers” by Louis Armstrong was chosen because German swing youths sang it during forced labor in concentration camps, as they were persecuted by the Nazi regime because of their love of jazz and swing.
The Liberation Dance was conceived in Bremen together with dancers from all over Europe in remembrance of the war, but also in view of the strengthening of right-wing groups throughout Europe.
Dancing the choreography together, holding hands and building bridges, which can be recognized in the dance, stands for cohesion, for remembrance, because #Niewiederistjetzt
NS-Injustice "Degenerated Music"
The transnational project takes a comparative look at the Nazi persecution practices of the northwest German swing youth, the Czech potapki and the swing and jazz music scene in occupied Poland and develops multi-perspective, interdisciplinary and participatory mediation formats.
