NEWSLETTER   #03-2006

Leipzig, 13th December 2006

Dear colleagues and friends,
Dear Sir or Madam,

At the end of the year we would like to give you a few impressions of the last euro-scene Leipzig 2006. Furthermore, we hope to arouse your interest for our festival 2007.

We wish you a Merry Christmas, and much energy and health for the year 2007.

Ann-Elisabeth Wolff

Festival Director

The 16th euro-scene Leipzig took place from 7-12 November 2006. Under the motto »Consonances – Dissonances« the role of music in theatre and dance was analysed more closely this year. The euro-scene Leipzig showed a total of 12 guest performances from 11 countries in 22 shows.

Among the highlights, next to the final night »vsprs« of the Flemish choreographer Alain Platel, were also smaller productions, such as »Miss Very Wagner« of the Swedish performance star Charlotte Engelkes or »Dok.Tor« by Wladimir Pankow with the Teatr.doc from Moscow. Particularly impressive was »Ashura« shown by the Turkish company 5. Sokak Tiyatrosu that moved deeply with its poetic-melancholic connection of politics and music in a scenic concert about expulsion and alienation.

These and all other performances shown in the nine Leipzig venues were received with much interest by more than 7,500 spectators. All in all the festival had an utilisation of approximately 90 percent.

The International Theatre Institute (ITI), Berlin, held its annual convention within the festival in Leipzig on 11 and 12 November and also arranged two public events together with the euro-scene Leipzig. Under the title »Bewegungsmelder« (»Motion Detectors«) the ITI started a project series on surveillance and control in public spaces and their repercussion in dance. In the conception by Michael Freundt and Henning Fülle representatives of technology, science, politics, and art took part in the discussion.

A panel discussion to the theme of music at theatre stage was held on the subject »Vom Gesamtkunstwerk zum entgrenzten Theater« (»From total work of art to delimited theatre«). Nike Wagner (artistic director Kunstfest Weimar), Barbara Mundel (director Theater Freiburg i. Br.), Fabrizio Cassol (composer and saxophonist, Brussels), and Paul Koek (director and composer, manager De VeenFabriek, Leiden) spoke about the suspension of classical principles of specialisation in contemporary theatre.

Furthermore, the new ITI board was elected in Leipzig, which Ann-Elisabeth Wolff will be a member of for the first time. The other members of the board are Laura Berman (music dramatic adviser, Berlin), Stephanie Gräve (dramatic adviser, Bonn), Harald Müller (publishing manager Theater der Zeit, Berlin), Irina Pauls (choreographer, Freiburg i. Br.), Jürgen Schitthelm (director Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin), Bettina Sluzalek (artistic managing director Theaterhaus Stuttgart), and Alexander Stillmark (director, Berlin). President of the German Centre of the ITI remains Manfred Beilharz (director Staatstheater Wiesbaden). The vice presidents are Roberto Ciulli (director Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim) and Martin Roeder-Zerndt (director Theater Heilbronn).

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Content and editing: Ann-Elisabeth Wolff / Nadine Brockmann
English translation: Susanne Saalfeld
Photographers: Chris van der Burght, Ghent / Nathalie Labaye, Rouen / Rolf Arnold, Leipzig
Graphic design: fertigungsbureau.de/sign, Dirk Baierlipp
Editorial deadline: 12.12.2006

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