photo credit @ICKHEO Master craftsmanship on stage? It sounds strange and fascinating at the same time: while a ceramist and a knot artist perform their work on stage, in the background [...]
The Theater of Imagination transfers the performance into the minds of the audience: the description of the events is projected onto a screen. The imagined stage action - famous, real productions - is as exciting or boring as our imagination. Attention! The management of the Theater der Phantasie accepts no responsibility for the imaginary obscenities, violent scenes and [...]
Tatiana Chizhikova uses solid and condensed choreographic forms for her works, while their emotional content is rather complex and highly charged. In her new solo performance, she works with a simple found object, a stick. She uses it to unfold a detailed movement research on the subject of rootedness, grounding or staggering and displacement. Tatiana Chizhikova: "I have a dry stick [...]
A broad spectrum of musical deconstructions of classical formal models can be heard in this duo recital: Stravinsky's Divertissement (1934) is based on the music to his ballet Le Baiser de la fée, which in turn was inspired by Tchaikovsky's great ballet music. The composer Leonid Desyatnikov, who was born in Kharkiv and lives in Israel, dissects the last song in wie der alte Leiermann... (1997) [...]
This is a performance with two dance pieces that wander around in a non-staged environment. The two choreographers and dancers, Tatyana Chizhikova and Yulia Arsen, detach their creations from their original stage versions [...].
This is a performance with two dance pieces that wander around in a non-staged environment. The two choreographers and dancers, Tatyana Chizhikova and Yulia Arsen, detach their creations from their original stage versions [...].
Huge shadows lie over the many scenes of new music in the territory of the former Soviet Union, which is currently once again the scene of violent geopolitical conflicts. The lively exchange between leading composers and performers [...]
Boris Filanovsky's "Ob aus Luft" is a musical meditation on loss, inspired by Maria Stepanova's celebrated cycle of poems. With a perfect blend of silence and fervor, static and expression, [...]
There is no correct or incorrect way to remember. But we are constantly being disciplined into particular ways of recollecting: by memory politics, media discourse, our families, our surroundings, our [...]
The dialectic of freedom and oppression is the central theme running through the diverse artistic programme of this concert by the Neue Vocalsolisten. Works will be performed that were specially composed for the Neue Vocalsolisten [...]
