Publication at Contemporary Theatre Review, CTR 27.3 (2017),Volume 27, Issue 3, Book review on Cathy Turner´s Dramaturgy and Architecture: Theatre, Utopia and the Built Environment

Reading
by Adela Bravo Sauras

Past Performances

• 2017-07-31, Routledge Journals

Revue shows are costume shows performed by giant ensembles. Similar to Hollywood blockbusters, Revue shows create spaces of relaxation and invite spectators to lean back and consume. Three performers from the Theater Thikwa take on the challenge of bursting apart all the superlative elements of a “big show”. Equipped with bizarre objects the performers’ bodies will become surfaces of (in)visible prostheses, mutating into rogue cyber heroes and emerge as the icons of the show. It will be loud, bloody, and glamorous.

Performance
by Performance: Addas Ahmad, Oliver Rincke, Mereika Schulz | Konzept: Blöchle/Fornezzi (ATW)| Regie/Bühne: Blöchle/Fornezzi (ATW)& Ines Wuttke (ATW) | künstlerische Objekte/Kostüm: Elke Hennen

Past Performances

• 2017-07-05, premiere , Theater Thikwa Berlin
• 2017-07-06, final project , Theater Thikwa Berlin
• 2017-07-07, final project , Theater Thikwa Berlin
• 2017-08-08, final project , Theater Thikwa Berlin

Performance
by MA-CuP-Studiernde: Frida Laux, Patrick Faurot, Tanja Kodlien, Kasia Kania, Filomena Krause, Rene Alejandro Huari Mateus, Fabricio Belzoff, Ana Dublevic, Rahel Barra, Marja Christians, Zrinka Uzbinec, Liza Spivakovska, Ida Daniel and Viktoria Ilioska

Past Performances

• 2017-07-06, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
• 2017-07-07, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
• 2017-07-08, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm

blend is a trio of artists researching the science of communication specifically beyond speech. Therefore they collect material all over the world to broaden the meaning of communication.

blend visits the Mortsel area to focus on whale songs. They will sound out the situation of the whales in the moat of the Mortsel fortress and will record their songs to reflect upon the topics of language and communication.
Their representation will be a multilingual and interdisciplinary translation of whale songs which they will present through performance, sound and video.

https://vimeo.com/231080416

http://www.walpurgis.be/v2/block1/de_feniks.php?lan=en&prodID=515

Performance
by blend (Katharina Hauke / Baly Nguyễn / Fanny Sorgo)

Past Performances

• 2017-09-01, premiere , WALPURGIS deFENIKS, Antwerp, Belgium

Speaker at International Federation for Theatre Research(IFTR), Conference 2017: Unstable Geographies: Multiple Theatricalities, University of São Paulo | 10-14 July 2017, Theatre Architecture Working Group, Working Group Session 1

Lecture
by Adela Bravo Sauras

Past Dates

• 2017-07-10, Department of Performing Arts of the School of Communication and Arts of University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lucio Martins Rodrigues, ECA

Performance
by Ariane Stamatescu, Mara Scheibinger, Maria Huber (ATW), Carlos Franke (ATW)

Past Performances

• 2017-06-15, premiere , Labortheater der HfbK Dresden
• 2017-06-16, Labortheater der HfbK Dresden
• 2017-06-16, Labortheater der HfbK Dresden
• 2017-06-29, Probebühne 2, Schiffenberger Weg 115, 35394 Gießen
• 2017-06-29, Probebühne 2, Schiffenberger Weg 115, 35394 Gießen

Exhibition
by Julian Behm / Josephine Garbe / Herbert Graf (ATW)/ Jonas Habrich / Orpheo Winter

Past Performances

• 2017-03-11, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach MMIII / Rudolf Boetzelen-Silo / Künkelstraße 125 / 41063 Mönchengladbach
• 2017-03-12, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach MMIII / Rudolf Boetzelen-Silo / Künkelstraße 125 / 41063 Mönchengladbach
• 2017-03-19, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach MMIII / Rudolf Boetzelen-Silo / Künkelstraße 125 / 41063 Mönchengladbach
• 2017-03-26, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach MMIII / Rudolf Boetzelen-Silo / Künkelstraße 125 / 41063 Mönchengladbach
• 2017-04-02, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach MMIII / Rudolf Boetzelen-Silo / Künkelstraße 125 / 41063 Mönchengladbach

2017-04-09, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach MMIII / Rudolf Boetzelen-Silo / Künkelstraße 125 / 41063 Mönchengladbach

The Performance SUPERQUADRA67 tells the story of the end of architecture.
Oscar N., inhabiting the futuristic building Super-Quadra 67 starts augmenting his surroundings
with personal improvements. Eventually the building starts mutating, while other tenants join in on
the reconstruction, putting their own ideas into the numerous endeavours.
Sets and characters of the live created animated film SUPERQUADRA67 become the research
grounds of a programmer and an animator. Together with puppetry and live-sound, the
performance follows an anarchist utopia in a world of planned cities.

Puppet theater
by Konzept & Umsetzung: Hanke Wilsmann (ATW), Jost von Harleßem (ATW) / Figurenspiel: Caroline Kühner (HFS Ernst Busch) / Musik: Philip Albus (JLU Gießen) / Sounddesign: Rupert Jaud (ATW) / Setbau: Ben Goosens / Mitarbeit Bühne: Friederike Schmidt-Colinet (ATW) / Figurenbau: Jost von Harleßem, Caroline Kühner, Ingo Mewes / Kostüme Figuren: Melchior Hoffmann (ATW)/ Weitere Texte: Dietmar Dath / Produktion: Heidrun Schlegel

Past Performances

• 2017-08-30, premiere , TREIBSTOFF Theatertage Basel, Kaserne Basel
• 2017-09-01, TREIBSTOFF Theatertage Basel, Kaserne Basel
• 2017-09-02, TREIBSTOFF Theatertage Basel, Kaserne Basel
• 2017-09-21, Festival "Wunder der Prärie" Mannheim, Multihalle
• 2017-09-22, Festival "Wunder der Prärie" Mannheim, Multihalle
• 2018-10-24, Mousonturm Frankfurt
• 2018-10-25, Mousonturm Frankfurt
• 2018-10-25, Mousonturm Frankfurt
• 2018-11-15, Fast Forward Festival - Staatsschauspiel Dresden
• 2018-11-16, Fast Forward Festival - Staatsschauspiel Dresden
• 2019-06-28, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Kammerspiele
• 2019-06-29, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Kammerspiele
• 2019-09-19, Bochum, Zeche 1 - Fritz Wortelmann Preis

TBA

Scenic Project
by Studierenden des Instituts für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft unter der Leitung von Prof. Heiner Goebbels

Past Performances

• 2017-07-20, Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft

The Planet (later at night) +++ exhibition by choreographer, artist, writer and ATW guest professor Mårten Spångberg at Kiosk of Neuer Kunstverein Gießen (Ecke Licher Straße, Nahrungsberg, D-35394 Giessen) +++ vernissage January 13, 9.oo PM plus first evening of nightly horror stories read by Mårten +++ January 18, 9.oo PM, secong evening of nightly stories +++ January 20, 7.oo PM, ATW TALKS with Mårten and Bojana Kunst plus third evening of nightly stories +++ all events taking place at Kiosk +++ more info on www.atw-giessen.de

Project
by ATW guest professor Mårten Spångberg, organised by Neuer Kunstverein Gießen and ATW

Past Performances

• 2017-01-13, Neuer Kunstverein Gießen
• 2017-01-18, Neuer Kunstverein Gießen
• 2017-01-20, Neuer Kunstverein Gießen

The second part of "Theatre & Science" will be presented.

TBA

Further information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1909293282731122/

Scenic Project
by Studierenden des Instituts für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft unter der Leitung von Prof. Heiner Goebbels

Past Performances

• 2017-07-21, Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft
• 2017-10-19, Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft

TRANSIT MONUMENTAL – Droga Niepodległości stages an objet trouvé 10 meters in length and 500 kilos in weight as a monument in order to get in touch with presentations and utopias of a European nation. Inspired by the ancient tradition of states presents and with the self-imposed mission of offering this monument to different representative persons and groups in Poland, K.A.U. and Polish director Małgorzata Wdowik travel with it through different regions from Munich to Warsaw.

Free and independent, from pubs to sports fields along the way, staged festivities and ceremonies were celebrated and filmed. Arrived in Warsaw, TRANSIT MONUMENTAL staged a congress about the polish independence day against the backdrop of the monument. People who make an appearance on the independence day were gathered on a theatre stage. They were asked to present their performances of national consciousness and their utopia about the controversial Marsz Niepodległości. Because of the political situation after the elections 2015 in Poland, the situation at the congress as well became more and more controversial.

Seven road-movie-episodes and the live-recording of the final congress in Warsaw tell the story of TRANSIT MONUMENTAL.

Film
by K.A.U.&WDOWIK (Konzept, Theater-, Filmregie, Dramaturgie, Text und Realisierung), Romuald Krezel (Performance),Johannes van Bebber (Ton und Musik), Alexander Buers (Technologie), Dino Osmanovic (Kamera) / Nina Wesemann (Kamera/Unterstützung Bildregie), Gudrun Gruber (Cut), AnnaKatharina Brehm (Herstellungsleitung: HFF München), Alexander Foremny (IT-Realisierung), Maciej Thiem (Video Kongress), Emilia Pienicka (Live-Übersetzung Kongress), Emmilou Rößling, Jan Tage-Kühling (Übersetzung)

Past Performances

• 2017-06-06, studiobühne Köln

Scenic Project
by Student*Innen des Instituts für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft unter der Leitung von Prof. Heiner Goebbels

Past Performances

• 2017-02-10, Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft

Dance Project
by Wera Mahne

Past Performances

• 2017-11-03, LICHTHOF Theater, Mendelssohnstraße 15 B 22761 Hamburg
• 2017-11-03, LICHTHOF Theater, Mendelssohnstraße 15 B 22761 Hamburg
• 2017-11-04, LICHTHOF Theater, Mendelssohnstraße 15 B 22761 Hamburg

Sharing space. Sharing time. Sharing bodies.
What is really there and what is just out of view?
The growth of what is infinite.
The disappearance of the construct.
The floor dropping out from under your feet
- might be a translation of what you hear and feel.

Are you worried if the invisible starts to move?
Would you go into the unknown if we wouldn’t take you?
Would you come with us if the unknown wouldn’t invite you?

Performance
by und mit Anja Sauer, Filomena Krause, Patrick Faurot, Elisabeth Hampe, Tanja Kodein, Antonia Beeskow, Frida Illig und anderen verschwindenden Körpern.

Past Performances

• 2017-02-23, Probebühne 1 () Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Gießen
• 2017-02-24, Probebühne 1 () Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Gießen

When you can stay, what happens if you stay for far too long? right here*?, we thought. And rehearsed for 15,000 years, no problem. It’s difficult to remember when we stopped feeling our discrete needs and became part of something far more incomplete and symbiotic. And we are not complaining. We’ve been cared for. And we got better at caring for what’s actually here, with us. “what if where I am is what I need” is a shameless exercise in co-dependency and an attempt to make a habitat of the dysfunctional. The only thing we stubbornly keep on forgetting is that right now*, right here* we are in a theatre and the next show is about to start.

Performance
by Von Maximilian Brands, Clara Reiner, Christopher Weickenmeier * Mit: Henrike Kohpeiss, Hanna Steinmair * Kostüm: Joana Tischkau * Bühne: David Reiber Otalora * Licht: Friedrich Schmidt * Solo-Choreographer: Else Tunemyr

Past Performances

• 2017-06-13, premiere , Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
• 2017-06-14, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
• 2017-06-14, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm

Production
by Laura Eggert, Elisabeth Krefta, Kathi Sendfeld, mit: Gesa Bering, Falko Schnelle

Past Performances

• 2017-01-18, final project , taT-studiobühne, Stadttheater Gießen
• 2017-01-19, final project , taT-studiobühne, Stadttheater Gießen

More important than anything else was to find a way to live. It was under this thought that we started moving. When we returned to the movements months later we saw withdrawal where we had once seen proposition. The body that had moved before now seemed to belong so intensely to this former state of being that when we immersed ourselves in the exact same positions, it felt like skin moving without intention. Henrike wrote: It might turn out that this attempt is pretty much connected to the desire to disappear (from politics, practical life, the body) but it could also allow a perception of the present, that, due to its softness, is able to float through layers that would otherwise be blocking.
Else Tunemyr uses movement to liberate bodies from their intentionality. To do this, she (ab)uses practices that follow the functions of the body, its organs or its heartbeat, and transforms them into a simple choreographic method. A gap appears between the dancer and her movement. Embodiment and alienation of the same movement are suddenly indistinguishable.

http://www.mousonturm.de/web/en/veranstaltung/no-title-else-tunemyr

Dance Project
by und mit: Catalina Insignares, Henrike Kohpeiß, Carolina Mendonça, Carina Premer, Else Tunemyr, Christopher Weickenmeier, Zuzana Zabkova

Past Performances

• 2017-02-18, premiere , Künstlerhaus Mousonturm | Studio 1 | Frankfurt am Main
• 2017-02-19, final project , Künstlerhaus Mousonturm | Studio 1 | Frankfurt am Main

Aktuelle Termine:
Fr 17.11.2017, 20:00 / HAU3 Premiere
Sa 18.11.2017, 19:00 / HAU3
So 19.11.2017, 17:00 / HAU3 im Anschluss Artist Talk
Mo 20.11.2017, 20:00 / HAU3

Choreografie, Performance: Nuray Demir, Tümay Kılınçel
Dramaturgie: Arnita Jaunsubrēna
Theoretische Mitarbeit: Natalie Bayer
Assistenz: Aiko Takahashi
Kostümbild: Nadine Bakota
Bühnenbild: Şenol Şentürk
Komposition, Live Musik: Nguyễn Baly
Lichtdesign: Lea Schneidermann
Produktionsleitung: Eva Lämmerzahl

Performance
by Nuray Demir und Tümay Kılınçel

Past Performances

• 2017-11-17, Hebbel am Ufer HAU 3
• 2017-11-18, Hebbel am Ufer HAU 3
• 2017-11-19, Hebbel am Ufer HAU 3
• 2017-11-20, Hebbel am Ufer HAU 3

Things break away from their inscribed biographies. Music separates itself from the musical world map attributed to it. Bodies and thoughts come into movement in a kaleidoscopic space. In their dance, Demir and Kılınçel operate with items that have a specific meaning for different communities in Germany.
“و WOW” is an exciting exclamation, inviting us to choreographies of transformation.

Choreography, performance: Nuray Demir, Tümay Kılınçel
Dramaturgy: Arnita Jaunsubrēna
Theoretical collaboration: Natalie Bayer
Assistance: Aiko Takahashi
Costume design: Nadine Bakota
Stage design: Şenol Şentürk
Composition, live music: Nguyễn Baly
Lightning design: Lea Schneidermann
Production manager: Eva Lämmerzahl

Performance
by Nuray Demir und Tümay Kılınçel

Past Performances

• 2017-11-17, premiere , HAU3 Berlin
• 2
• 017-11-18, HAU3 Berlin
• 2017-11-19, HAU3 Berlin
• 2017-11-20, HAU3 Berlin