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Performing Music
Concerts, song recitals and music theatre pieces are becoming more common in theatre programmes all the time. Conversely, musicians and bands are applying theatrical methods to enhance their performances and create more of a “live” experience. The...
Projection of Europe
Six young directors from the new EU member states presented theatre productions examining how people in these countries feel toward their new "European homeland". The plays were presented in a series of three shows with two performances each evening...
Pazz
Pazz is an international performing arts festival that aims to establish long-lasting ties between publicly funded theatre and the independent theatre scene. What makes this festival unique is that it continues to collaborate with a pool of artists...
Look at me, I´m Chinese
Jutta Hell und Dieter Baumann, Tänzer und Choreografen der Berliner Tanzcompagnie RUBATO, interessieren sich dafür, welche Spuren der Zwang zum Funktionieren in einer auf permanente Produktivität ausgerichteten Gesellschaft in den menschlichen...
Precarious Bodies
The dance pieces by the fine artist, director and choreographer Jan Fabre always underscore the vulnerability of the dancing body. The strong, healthy bodies of the performing dancers are put under such external and internal duress that we glimpse...
Prognoses about Movements
Prognoses do not only foretell the future, they also influence it. Nowadays, predictions are usually made about scientific, technical or economic developments, but hardly play any role as a cultural praxis. Analogous to the twelve "Economic...
Politics of Ecstasy – Altered States of Presence / Context # 6
Ecstasy - the physical experience of intense joy, the simultaneity of being present and absent - was the central theme of the festival at the Hebbel am Ufer. "Politics of Ecstasy" presented a variety of positions based on the theme of ecstasy from...
Play Young
What subject matter and narrative styles are especially suitable to theatre goers between the ages of six and twelve? What are the aesthetic and subject-related demands of children’s theatre today? Although theatres have shown increasing interest in...
Rummelplatz by Werner Bräunig
The publication of Rummelplatz ["Fairground"] by Werner Bräunig was arguably the literary sensation of 2007, a novel that saw the light of day more than forty years after it was written. The story is set at the Wismut Corporation, a gigantic uranium...
Road Theatre
Following a "prologue" in Berlin, the production company German Theater Abroad (GTA) of Berlin ventured on an unusual American tour with Roland Schimmelpfennig's play "Start Up". The GTA took a bus across the country from New York City to Los Angeles...