2008 - euro-scene Leipzig

2008

Tumbling on a smooth sea

18th Festival of Contemporary European Theatre 04 – 09 November 2008

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: Tilmann Broszat, künstlerischer Leiter des Festivals SPIELART, München

Programme 2008

Still waters run deep

Calm water can be both idyllic and, at the same time, eerie and frightening. Our existence is determined by overplayed uncertainties, tensely safeguarding the pretence of beauty and the increasingly hectic search for purpose in life. This year’s euro-scene Leipzig aims to sensitise the audience to its floundering and provide courage to admit weakness.

pitié! (Have mercy!)

What does it mean today to make a sacrifice? What about our ability to show sympathy and pity? The famous Belgian choreographer Alan Platel poses these questions, together with ten fantastic dancers, three singers and eight musicians, on the basis of the "St Matthew Passion" by Johann Sebastian Bach. Together with the composer Frabrizio Cassol, who revised the music in a strikingly modern way, an outstanding, touching dance play was created.

Les corneilles (The crows)

Josef Nadj is not only one of the best known choreographers of the contemporary dance and theatre scene, but is also devoted to painting, sculpture and photography. Since his childhood he has painted and attended the art grammar school in Novi Sad, capital of his home Vojvodina in the former Yugoslavia, now Serbia. Later he studied art history and music at the Academy of fine arts and at the University of Budapest.

Woyzeck

A small garrison town in the mid 19th century. Doing all kinds of extra work the soldier, Woyzeck, earns a little money to feed Marie and his illegitimate child. Then Marie cheats on him with a Major. Woyzeck’s desperation knows no bounds …

HipHop – The second identity

Takao Baba, a member of the E-Motion company, offers the opportunity to become better acquainted with hip-hop. Using movement material choreographed for the hip-hop performance »2nd ID« (The second identity), the dancer develops new movement sequences with the workshop participants in the different hip-hop styles such as lockin’, poppin’, new style and house. This varies depending on the respective abilities of the participants.

Journal d’un inconnu (Diary of an unknown)

This dance solo by and with Josef Nadj shifts, full of enchanting imaginativeness, between humour and catastrophe, pain and lust for life. Nadj combs through his own diary about the Yugoslavian past and poets by Ottó Tolnai and enters the subconscious of human soul.

2nd ID

Hip-hop dance play with the best hip-hop dancers in Germany headed by the Japanese Takao Baba. Acrobatically and comical they whirl across the stage; however, video clips bring in thoughtfulness about their different cultural origin, love and tradition.

Принцeca Kaпчицa (PRINTZESSA KAPTSCHITZA)

Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a water kingdom at the bottom of the sea. Here, Princess Droplet, who only loves Prince Marble, is to be married off against her will. Bulgarian puppeteer Tania Evtimova conjures up poetic images with rag dolls, few words and lots of music.

Electric girl

The dance play by choreographer Apostolia Papadamaki traces back to the commercialisation of girls as light fixtures at the beginning of the age of electricity. Dancer Hara Kotsali and live musician Blaine Reininger show an unusual two-person relationship. First guest play from Greece!

Panoptik der Träume (Panoptic of dreams)

After »Obituary« and other texts by Heiner Müller, Uwe Schmieder staged a musical revue with great actors and the punk band "The No Fears" as an adventurous journey through time into the GDR.

Ipsum – önmagadat (Ipsum – yourself)

This suggestive theatre monologue by György Àrvai shows an eerie creature as mother, witch, whore and saint, who at a supposed cooking show gradually changes the kitchen into a witch’s laboratory.

Woyzeck – ou L’ébauche du vertige (Woyzeck – or The hint of vertigo)

Soldier Woyzeck is driven to murder by the unfaithfulness of his wife. Based on Georg Büchner, Josef Nadj developed a firework of visual inventions without words - a cult piece of French theatre.

The quiet dance / Speaking dance

Two men immerse themselves in a captivating dialogue between gesture, music and dance. The British choreographer Jonathan Burrows and the Italian composer Matteo Fargion have already inspired in 37 countries.

The real fiction

The performance of director Cuqui Jerez is one of the most surprising theatre plays of the past years. Between appearance and reality, it shows possibilities of an experimental comedy and pushes the envelope of theatre. Followed by: Audience discussion (05 Nov.) Presentation: Dr. Martina Bako, Theatre scholar, University of Leipzig

Entracte (Interval)

Four dancers, four musicians and one stage design in sheets of ice, glass and steps. Josef Nadj, one of the most important choreographers in Europe, created a dance play about the topic of permanent change and of giddiness.

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