One Song – Histoire(s) du théâtre IV
Miet Warlop + NTGent (Belgium)Bleachers, a field, a team. In ONE SONG, Belgian star choreographer Miet Warlop dares to bridge the gap between sport, competition and rock concert. Truly powerful!
From 7 to 12 November 2023, a total of 15 productions from Belgium, France, Greece, Kosovo, Portugal, Slovenia and Ukraine, among others, could be seen on the stages in Leipzig. With one world premiere, six German premieres and two international co-productions, numerous events from the fields of dance, theatre and performance could be experienced in Germany for the first time this year.
Bleachers, a field, a team. In ONE SONG, Belgian star choreographer Miet Warlop dares to bridge the gap between sport, competition and rock concert. Truly powerful!
"How do you say 'colonisation' in Arabic?" - Based on this question, Salim Djaferi examines the history of the colonisation of Algeria in his first play. A semantic enquiry into the power of words, their origin, effect and meaning - linguistically and visually powerful!
Six staged readings of current outstanding theatre texts from Flanders. They deal with the meaning of life and the addiction to love, infidelities and assaults, love in old age and angry old people, as well as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
In the first edition of LIT – a new literary-musical stage show by Behoud de Begeerte from Antwerp – three young novelists from Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium negotiate their concepts of "family" together with a singer.
Sieben Darsteller:innen laufen ununterbrochen – und treten doch nur auf der Stelle. In KRIZE untersuchen Žiga Divjak und sein Team unser globales Wirtschaftssystem, das auf Ausbeutung und Wachstum aufgebaut ist.
Together with a pan-European team, Qendra Multimedia from Kosovo looks back at various peace negotiations over the last few decades. In doing so, they visualise the background, challenges, fears and hopes associated with them - also in anticipation of an end to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
Steven Cohen, a unique and internationally acclaimed choreographer, performer and visual artist, brings to the stage a very intimate ritual and at the same time a powerful aesthetic and political manifesto about the loss of a loved one and how we deal with death.
The debut of a talented young Greek choreographer. An ecstatic sound and movement collage of enormous technical precision that shows an archive of "possessed women" from different cultural contexts and reveals their overwhelming, shocking and subversive character.
In Jérôme Bel's masterful portrait of the Chinese dancer Xiao Ke, she describes her career between folk, modern and contemporary dance live on video from Shanghai.
With her dance, the exceptional dancer Manon Parent draws us into the flights of fancy and discord deep inside her. An intimate solo, extremely sensitively choreographed by Ioannis Mandafounis, the new artistic director of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.
The new program by the five world-famous Kyiv musicians is a rousing performance between punk, activism and cabaret. A musical and visual manifesto as an act of resistance and in favour of a life in peace and freedom.
The Syrian exile theatre group Collective Ma'louba links dark chapters of German and Syrian history in the 20th and 21st centuries. THE LONG SHADOW OF ALOIS BRUNNER deals with questions of justice, the experience of flight, going into hiding and theatre as an act of revelation.
In this unique double bill, Steven Cohen gives us a deep insight into his extensive work, which he has created on several continents over the last three decades. In elegant and surprising stagings of his body, he takes us by the hand to explore the cracks and beauty of human beings.
With her newly invented expressionism, Tânia Carvalho is the most dazzling representative of the current Portuguese dance scene. For ONIRONAUTA, she has personally arranged Chopin's Revolutionsetüde for two grand pianos and accompanies her first-class ensemble on a journey between dream and reality.
A discussion with the director and performer Salim Djaferi, the ethnologist Dr Stefanie Mauksch (Leipzig University), the museum educator Christine Fischer (GRASSI Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig) and students from the Institute of Theatre Studies at Leipzig University.
In this staged reading followed by a discussion, the participants will present the results of the dramaturgical-translation workshop SPIELMATERIAL ÜBERSETZEN on the new theatre production OST by Leyla-Claire Rabih and Elie Youssef.
CANCELLED! Without women, there can be no lasting peace – this simple conclusion is constantly proving true around the world. We take a look at the realities of various peace negotiations and ask about concrete measures to strengthen the participation and influence of women.
At the end of the lab on the topic of hosting and shared resources in cooperation with PLATTFORM STUDIOTRADE, there will be a first get-together with coffee, cake and improvised scores in the new project space Remise 24 by director Anne Zacho Søgaard and performer Hermann Heisig.
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