2012

Autumn crocus

22nd Festival of Contemporary European Theatre 06 – 11 November 2012

Theatre and dance from old and new Europe Under the patronage of Burkhard Jung – Mayor of the City of Leipzig

Festival-Director: Ann-Elisabeth Wolff Carte blanche: Romeo Castellucci, Cesena

Programme 2012

Tanz- und Theaterkritik (Dance- and theatre reviews)

The venue LOFFT will offer a workshop on the practical writing of theatre criticism parallel to euro-scene Leipzig.

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Die Räder im Getriebe (the wheels in motion)

Stage technology – a secret. Stage technology – invisible to most audience members. During the performances, the audience simply sees the stage design, hears the music, sees the lighting effects.

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Hinter der Maske – Das Theater der Familie Flöz (Behind the mask – The theatre of the Flöz family)

The theatre of Familie Flöz works without language. Only sounds and music support the performance. The self-developed character masks are the essential element.

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Parsifal

»Parsifal«, the last opera of Richard Wagner (1813-1883), premiered in Bayreuth in 1882 and is full of religious motifs.

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Kunst und Leben (Art and life)

The various theatre systems in Europe are in transition: looking back over the last 20 years, it is clear that new forms of production and organisational structures have changed the content of theatre as much as its reception.

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Used people

The lead actors, Shirley MacLaine and Marcello Mastroianni, are what make the film an event. Both perform excellently as Pearl, a Jewish woman who has recently buried her husband and Joe, an Italian who invites her out on a date during the funeral.

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Herbst Zeit Lose

This workshop is intended for daring creatives from all areas of the performing arts (performance, dance, theatre, music) as well as visual artists and experimental crossovers.

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En Atendant

The dance piece by famous choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker takes a musical journey through time to the late 14th century. With 8 dancers and 4 musicians she shows an orderly chaos full of harmony, irritatingly erotic, between life and death, fear and hope. A masterpiece.

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Stato di grazia (State of Grace) / La fine ha dimenticato il principio (The end forgot its beginning)

Two unconventional performances by Silvia Costa deal with various human disorders. At first she herself plays a solo which is about sexual deviations, followed by a performance by Juri Roverato as shepherd god Pan.

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Infinita

A funeral procession, small children in diapers, sprightly retirees in a nursing home – amusing and entertaining, captivatingly performed, deeply poignant, a theatre play without words. The play combines elements of movement and body theatre, but its biggest secret lies in the phenomenal effect of the masks.

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Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond good and evil)

Pastor Gunther believes in the good of humanity and has dedicated himself to the rehabilitation of »problem citizens«. Together with the two wonderful actors Armin Kopp und Philippe Nauer, director Dirk Vittinghoff created a light comedy and dark tragedy in a mixture of actor theatre and puppet theatre.

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Yue Medlin Yue

A Roma family tries to find their footing again in post-war Kosovo. The theatre play by Jeton Neziraj is a tragicomedy composed of political innuendos and passionately absurd scenes with six actors and two musicians.

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Herbstzeitlose (Autumn crocus)

This dramatic-poetic dance play with 9 dancers shows the invisible flowering and the sudden eruption from pre-defined norms. Choreographer Rainer Behr is dancer with the Wuppertal dance theatre Pina Bausch.

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Miranda

Father and daughter sit in exile on an island, cut off from the world. This deeply moving two-person piece by Oskaras Koršunovas, renowned director from Lithuania, is based on the drama »The Tempest« by William Shakespeare. It asks questions about power, violence, the desire for freedom, wisdom and the misery of humanity.

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Tu mówi chór (This is the choir speaking)

A choir consisting of 25 women from multiple generations create a new form of music theatre. Director Marta Górnicka addresses humorously, dramatically and musically highly diversified images of women in everyday life

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Ch(ose) (Things (dare)) / Circle moods

A performance by Sandrine Buring and a dance solo by Orin Camus devote themselves to the topic of setting limits and crossing borders. Using different approaches, both artists demonstrate the diversity of dance in France.

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Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio (On the concept of the face, regarding the son of God)

The former child cares for the father who has again become a child himself. An enormous portrait of Jesus Christ examines mildly and mutely the fragility of being human. This play by Romeo Castellucci, one of the most radical and important European directors, is one of the most impressive pieces of theatre in recent years.

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