News  26.02.2024
 
Danse radicale
 
Film-Festivals
 
The final results of our 2022 project "Understanding the Art of Contemporaries" are a total of four short documentary films, two of which were produced in 2023 in collaboration with students from the "Film&Sound" programme at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

One of these films, the artist portrait of Franco-Belgian dancer and choreographer Pedro Pauwels entitled "Danse radicale", was recently awarded an "Honourable Mention" at the "Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival".

"Danse radicale" is currently still screening at the Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival in the "New Voice Shorts" section. As this festival is also taking place online, "Danse radicale" can still be viewed until 11 March at the link below. A ticket is available for $12, which gives you access to over 100 short films. Purchasing this ticket also gives you the opportunity to vote, as there will also be an audience award. We would be very happy if one or the other would vote for "Danse radicale".
 
Berlin Lift-Off Filmfestival
 
West-Land-Dances
 
Videos
 
Our most recent dance piece "West-Land-Tänze" received excellent reviews and was celebrated by the audience. This was in the truest sense of the word, as most of the audience gratefully received the second part of our programme, a "Bal modern", and danced exuberantly together in the foyer of the Forum Freies Theater.

Michael Zerban wrote online in "O-Ton": "Rarely have visitors left a performance of contemporary dance with so many happy hormones as on this evening." And the newspaper Rheinische Post added: "The result is a rousing performance that has earworm potential due to its melodies alone. Because that is also part of this elevated cultural treasure. As complicated as some of the steps and movements in folk dances may be, they often follow a simple, catchy melody."

We are currently working on the video recording of the complete performance and hope that this can be added to the bookable programme of our "virtual theatre" by the end of March at the latest.

Until then, the short video of our stage design video, which we showed at the coda of our performance and which shows the uncovering of a Rubens painting from a pop overpainting, will suffice...
 
Palimpsest-Video
 
Palimpsest
 
E-Book and Video
 
In the run-up to the development of the dance production "West-Land-Tänze", we researched the subject of folk dance and music in the Rhineland and Westphalia. Among other things, this research also included two workshops to which we invited dance teachers specialising in folk dance and bal folk.

For the first workshop, which was part of our project "Understanding the Art of Contemporaries" funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf in 2022, we also hosted film & sound students from Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts with cameras and microphones in our rehearsal studio for two days. Sound design student Till Bellinghausen edited the short film "Palimpsest" from this material in autumn 2023.

Under the same title, we published an e-book for the premiere of "West-Land-Tänze", which summarises the scientific results on the subject of "Folk dance and music in the Rhineland and Westphalia".
The e-book is available at the following link. The link to the film can also be found on page 84 of the e-book.
 
E-Book Palimpsest
 
The boards that mean the city
 
The boards that mean the city
 
In 2022/23, the authors and editors Jens Prüss and J.U. Lensing compiled a 340-page book on the subject of "50 years of independent performing arts in Düsseldorf". The book is compiled from transcribed texts of a total of 40 audio interviews with protagonists of Düsseldorf's independent performing arts scene. The oldest interviewees were over 90 years old, the youngest in their mid-30s, resulting in a dazzling mosaic that depicts the beginnings of Düsseldorf's independent performing arts community around 1973, as well as the latest developments and debates on the subject of creating theatre from independent pieces in a big city like Düsseldorf. The book is currently in the final layout and design phase. It is due to be published by Droste-Verlag in mid-April 2024 to coincide with Bücherbummel 2024.
 
 
Virtual Theatre
 
 
A Corona project in 2021 - with the support of the Performing Arts Fund with funds from Neustart Kultur - was the construction of our "Virtual Total Theatre of Sounds". It was opened on 3 October 2021 after six months of construction and has been open to the public ever since.

Until now, only the foyer, the theatre restoration on the first floor and our gallery could be visited free of charge. For a tour through all the rooms of the virtual theatre, a ticket had to be booked at the box office in the foyer, as well as for a visit to the archive library in the theatre, one of the workshops offered in the two rehearsal studios or the booking of one of our 29 performances (as a complete video) in the auditorium of the theatre. Currently, our last production "hoppla, wir spielen noch" from 2022 can also be booked in its entirety (as a 3-camera recording) in the auditorium. On the occasion of this 30th video, which is now bookable and thus viewable in the theatre, we are releasing the free viewing of all rooms. So at the box office in the virtual theatre, a complete tour can be booked for 0.- €, which takes you through all the rooms we converted (according to plans by Walter Gropius from 1927). In this way, you can walk through the Total Theatre for Erwin Piscator in our realisation, both architecturally and interior design, online.

We are of course all the more pleased if this framework is used to book and view one of our performances.
 
The virtual total Theatre
 
Exhibition
 
Man and Art Figure in the Sphere Theatre
 
Our exhibition "Man and Art Figure in the Sphere Theatre" has been open in our online gallery since 15 March and can be visited there around the clock.

The exhibition includes a total of 42 purchasable highly aesthetic paintings, as well as a poster and a video trailer integrated into the exhibition. When the sound is turned on, one hears an audio guide in the form of a mini radio play.
The exhibition is expected to remain open until the end of the year.
 
Kunstmatrix-Exhibition
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