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A Night Off
The director and choreographer Helena Waldmann became world-famous with her productions Letters from Tentland and Return to Sender. This project addressed the theme of work and the fears tied to losing or not having it. What is left of us when...
Crash! Boom! Bau!
In 2009 the Bauhaus commemorated the 90th anniversary of its foundation in Weimar. The historic State Bauhaus was regarded as the leading educational institution in the field of architecture, design, free and applied art in Germany. The Bauhaus also...
Canaries in the Coal Mine – Spotlight on Belgium
Thirty years ago a series of pioneering dance productions from Belgium created a "Flemish dance wave" that catapulted the country to one of the most important "dance nations" in Europe. However, in the opinion of many Belgian dance artists, dance...
Beyond Belonging
The festival Beyond Belonging has featured performances based on the issue of migration since 2007. The third annual festival in 2009 focused specifically on immigrants in Istanbul and Berlin. In these cities immigrants experience "difference" on a...
China Hair Connection Beijing-Cologne
Hair is an expression of one's personality, a signal of cultural, religious and social affiliation. It symbolizes the intimate and animalistic character of human nature. The internationally active Cologne-based artists Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser...
Bayreuth Was Yesterday - New Opera at Kampnagel
What would opera look like if contemporary directors concentrated more on the music and the specific conditions of its production than on the libretto and the plot of the story? Three international co-productions (Via Negativa, Slovenia / Fanny &...
France en Scène – Theatre and Nouveau Cirque
Although the newest German theatre productions are well-received in France, contemporary French theatre groups are hardly shown here in Germany. Several theatres in Berlin have been co-hosting the festival France en Scène which gave young French...
Dreiland or the Prophecy of the Giant
The Gerhart Hauptmann Theatre in Zittau teamed up with the Czech puppet theatre Naivní Divadlo and the Dramatyzny Teatr of Poland to produce the play Dreiland. Written by Oliver Schmaering, one of the winners of the play competition hosted by the...
Of Finding and Losing
Inspired by Erich Maria Remarque's The Night in Lisbon and the motif of living under a false identity, the Theater an der Angel developed a production about the fate of immigrants and emigrants in the past and present. Audience members received a...
Ciudades paralelas
For their festival Ciudades paralelas, directors Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias have invited a group of artists to create artistic interventions at places that are common to every city – schools, hospitals, bus stops, petrol stations, pedestrian zones,...