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17.03.2021: Selection for Impulse Theater Festival 2021 announced!
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17.04.2021, 9pm, Eintanzhaus Mannheim, online: Presentation of ”Learning from Lockdown?“
With Julia König (educationalist, University of Mainz), Sibylle Peters (cultural theorist, performer), Teresa Vittucci (performer). Chaired by Impulse Theater Festival.
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22.04.2021, 8pm, studiobühneköln / analogtheater, Cologne, online: Presentation of ”Learning from Lockdown?“
With Daniela Dröscher (author, ”Zeige Deine Klasse“), Benjamin Dittrich (philosophical adviser), Adrienne Göhler (activist for Universal Basic Income and retired Senator for Cultur), Haiko Pfost.
Learning from Lockdown?
The publication is mainly in German. It includes two texts in English by Diya Naidu und Mbene Mbunga Mwambeneare.
Since March 2020 the theatre has spent most of the time in lockdown. On one hand, the cultural lockdown has exposed problems that were already known about or could have been foreseen. On the other hand, it has also heightened awareness of theatre’s unique nature as an art of assembly and encounters and provoked solidary action and unexpected solutions. So: what now? Can we learn also learn something from this crisis? How do we want to continue afterwards?
The publication brings together contributions from independent theatremakers and those in positions of responsibility from the worlds of culture and politics on the insights, ideas and demands that they have gained from the coronavirus crisis. Its themes range from funding policy and a social safety-net through the fundamental right to artistic freedom and digital access to the vulnerability of the body in the theatre space.
With contributions by Jörg Albrecht, Michael Annoff und Nuray Demir, Nora
Auerbach und Sonja Laaser, Holger Bergmann, Jan Deck, Daniela Dröscher,
Christian Esch, Joy Kristin Kalu, Julian Kamphausen und Susanne
Schuster, Sebastian Linz, Meine Damen und Herren, Mbene Mbunga Mwambene,
Diya Naidu, Boris Nikitin, Sara Ostertag, Christine Peters, Sibylle
Peters, Anja Quickert, Sahar Rahimi, Yves Regenass, Wilma Renfordt, Falk
Schreiber, Felizitas Stilleke, Swoosh Lieu, Arne Vogelgesang, Stefanie
Wenner.
Published by Alexander Verlag Berlin, 232 pages, paperback, ISBN 978-3-89581-536-2, 14 Euro.
Press votes
(in German only)
”'Lernen aus dem Lockdown‘ ist eine Momentaufnahme, entstanden im ersten Lockdown auf Initiative des Impulse-Teams. Damit ist es neu, uralt und seiner Zeit voraus zugleich. [...] Es geht den Autor*innen nicht darum, zum 21.687ten Mal die bis zum Erbrechen wiedergekäute Phrase von der Systemrelevanz der Kultur zu promoten, sondern darum, die Lockdown-Zeit zu nutzen, um grundsätzlich über (freies) Theater nachzudenken: Michael Annoff und Nuray Demir beleuchten beispielsweise die Ausschlussmechanismen der eigenen Szene. Sie stellen die These auf, das Theater habe sich großen Bevölkerungsteilen gegenüber schon immer im Lockdown befunden. [...] Neben konkreten künstlerischen Positionierungen versammelt der Band auch Beiträge über Arbeitsweisen in der Freien Szene, darüber, wie sich idealerweise politische Haltung und gelebte Praxis verbinden sollen und wo diese Utopie an Grenzen stößt. Ein zentrales Thema ist zudem die (Selbst-)Prekarisierung der freien Theaterschaffenden.”
Programme
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Selection 2021
The Impulse panel has chosen a selection of outstanding and challenging productions from last season despite its particular circumstances and difficult conditions.
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Academy
In collaboration with the FFT Düsseldorf once again two ACADEMIES will take place: On the first weekend of the festival visitors are invited to explore a living archive of 30 Years of Impulse and to examine the history of independent theatre. On the second weekend of the festival there will be an investigation into present situation of theatre without bodies – both online and in venues in Düsseldorf, Bangalore, Bern, Johannesburg and Minsk.
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City Project
The CITY PROJECT in co-operation with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr highlights the ever-increasingly divide between rich and poor. This project by artists’ collective Club Real illustrates how the social divide is becoming ever wider: slowly but constantly. How long can this go on? How much can society take? DIE GROSSE SCHERE (THE GREAT DIVIDE) makes increasing inequality impossible to overlook. How can we close the gap again? How can we fill that empty centre again?
