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, relying on the solid choreographic structure, resonant imagery and emotional density to create a shared experience for the viewer. Together they create [...]
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, relying on the solid choreographic structure, resonant imagery and emotional density to create a shared experience for the viewer. Together they create [...]
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 of leading composers and performers between Tbilisi and Minsk, Yerevan and Moscow, Tashkent and Kyiv has come to a standstill, the dialog to a standstill. Music is once again in danger of being reduced to national [...]
Boris Filanovsky's "Ob aus Luft" is a musical meditation on loss, inspired by the celebrated cycle of poems by Maria Stepanova. With a perfect blend of stillness and fervor, static and expression, the Swiss artist duo of soprano Maja Bader and pianist Leonhard Dering give the piece a lively interpretation. In the second half of the concert, bass-baritone [...]
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 own changing ideas of ourselves, and so on. During crises - and wars as an extreme manifestation thereof - such disciplining becomes even more pronounced. [...]
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 written especially for the Neue Vocalsolisten and are being presented in public for the first time. The memories of women who experienced the revolution in Belarus in 2020, recorded by the artist Olga Bubich, [...]
The dictatorship of art! - No dictator knows its secrets. But there are suggestions here: Fire and water, gallons of bubble bath, a huge pentagram-like wooden construction and pulsating music samples create a wonderful new world. Why crack hard nuts? It's enough to break their resistance. Burning chairs instead of flaming speeches, retreat from excessive demands instead of bloody tribunals, healing mud [...]
