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NEWSLETTER #01-2010 |
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Leipzig, 30.06.2010 |
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Dear Colleagues and Friends, Today we would like to inform you for the first time about our festival this year. The euro-scene Leipzig will take place from 02 to 07 November 2010 under the motto »Spurensuche« (»Searching for traces«) and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Planned are 12 guest plays from 10 countries in 25 performances and 9 theatre venues. The spectrum includes dance and spoken theatre as well as intermediate areas of performance art. The festival enjoys the patronage of Stanislaw Tillich, Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony. The festival programme is now available under www.euro-scene.de/programme. The ticket sale will start on Saturday, 25.09.2010. Upon request the printed festival programme can be posted in September. I wish you a nice summer and send my regards
Festival Director |
CONTENT 1. Conception |
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This year the festival of contemporary European theatre embarks on a journey both towards a résumé of its own development since its foundation in 1991 during the adventurous post-reunification era and towards setting a course for the future. The euro-scene Leipzig holds a firm place in the European festival landscape today. Its trademarks are particularly the societal and thematic brisance of the guest performances, the annual focus on Eastern Europe, its ability to transcend genres and to find the most varied venues in the city of Leipzig. As in past years, the guest appearances will demonstrate the strong, individual scripting of major directors and choreographers from all over Europe. This will include a reunion with a number of artists with whom the euro-scene Leipzig has long enjoyed a partnership. In addition, companies that are still unknown will also be present and several German premières will be shown. |
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The following companies will give guest performances at the euro-scene Leipzig 2010: les ballets C de la B / Alain Platel, Ghent »Lange Nacht des Tanzes« (»Long night of dance«)
– Choreographies by former laureates of the competition »Das beste deutsche Tanzsolo« (»Best German dance solo«):
On the occasion of the anniversary year, three plays that have been among the highlights of European theatre for the past years will finally be shown in Leipzig: »Sonja« by Alvis Hermanis from Riga and »Savitrí«, an enchanting shadow theatre for children by Divadlo Líšeň from Brno. »Twee stemmen« (»Two voices«) by Johan Simons with Jeroen Willems, one of the best actors of the Netherlands, was chosen as Carte blanche by Klemens Wannenmacher, director of Kreativ Coaching Berlin. A play from Kosovo, by Bekim Lumi, will be a part of the important focus on Eastern Europe for the first time as well as a performance by Ivo Dimchev from Sofia. |
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The guest performances will be complemented by an extensive fringe programme comprising films, discussions and a workshop by Catharina Gadelha, Cologne. This includes, for instance, the films »pitié! – Endstation Kinshasa« (»pitié! – final destination Kinshasa«) by Alain Platel, the trilogy »Inferno«, »Purgatorio« and »Paradiso« by Romeo Castellucci and the German première of »La Paura« by Pippo Delbono. One focal point this year will be a two-day symposium in co-operation with the International Theatre Institute (ITI), Berlin, held within the euro-scene Leipzig. Under the title »Ost-West-Passagen« (»East-West-Passages«), it will dedicate itself to the development of theatre over the last 20 years and will be open to the general public. The festival has its own ticket outlet again this year. It will be in the festival centre Café-Restaurant Telegraph at the Dittrichring from Saturday 25.09.2010. |
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The euro-scene Leipzig advertised an in-house project for artists from central Germany in support of the own region. The choice fell upon the Leipzig director Philipp J. Neumann, born in 1977, and his project »Prophezeiung 20/11« (»Prophecy 20/11«). The selection committee comprised the co-producer Dieter Jaenicke, the Festspielhaus Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (European centre for the arts) Dresden, Annegret Hahn, Thalia Theater Halle, and festival director Ann-Elisabeth Wolff. »Prophezeiung 20/11« will be premiered within the euro-scene Leipzig and shown in Halle/Saale and Dresden afterwards. |
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The euro-scene Leipzig was a co-organizer of the Tanzplattform Deutschland held from 25 – 28 February 2010 in Nuremberg. The Tanzplattform Deutschland is the most important forum for contemporary dance in Germany and shows an inventory of current trends within the German dance scene every two years. About 500 professional visitors from more than 50 countries came to Nuremberg to see eleven invited productions in 29 representations. The next Tanzplattform Deutschland will take place in Dresden from 23 – 26 February 2012. |
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Content and editing: Ann-Elisabeth Wolff / Sandra Brose |
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