resonance

articles & public discussion

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***ARTICLE by Theatre Scholar Christel Weiler (Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures of Freie Universität Berlin)":...the experience resonated and stayed with me as it did with others who went through this particular process. These encounters resisted being consumed and this is what made them so remarkable. They bore the potential for becoming the basis for further encounters, for interweaving cultures beyond the theater space. They left traces and inaugurated a different kind of politics: against representation and for meeting the other becoming a work of art...This is how interweaving should take place at the moment – as this would also open up a different European perspective." 

http://www.textures-platform.com/?p=4571

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***ARTICLE by Prof. of theatre Fadi Skeiker on his experience in Earthport at Theatre times: Every single moment the spectator is encountering the performer; each moment is loaded with expectations, anguish, and potential: The potential to be part of an aesthetic experience instead of merely observing one. The potential to enter an emotional territory within the self, a territory that might be buried, forgotten, or overlooked. The potential to witness an act that will transform the experience and move it from locality to universality. The potential to flip our expectations, and to replace labeling with empathy and understanding.

http://www.thetheatretimes.com/my-journey-in-earthport/

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***Earthport- public discussion in collaboration with the Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures"(Freie Universität Berlin)

may 11th 2016 @ 7 p.m. @ Vierte Welt, Berlin

"In a very special form of theatre, "Earthport" comes as a pioneering experience in the German scene related to intercultural performance. Following „Human Specific Performance“, "Earthport" brings together Egyptian and German performers questioning labels, prejudices and discourses of "othering" while exploring ways of healing, connecting and visioning a different future in a one on one performance format.

As an experiment that invests the style of Nullo Facchini's and Cantabile 2 in Denmark, the project investigates the politics of labeling through the human encounter between one spectator and one performer at a time, involving exchange, biographical elements, sensorial aspects and mutual physical actions. It intersects with current waves of activism addressing issues of discrimination and inequality in art production, and interweaves the culture of performance -specifically one on one- with the cultures of activism and that of personal communication across languages, sensitivities and foreignnesses.

Created as a collaboration between  „meet Mimosa" and "Lamusica Independent Theatre Group", and with funding from "Szenenwechsel" (Robert Bosch Stiftung and the German centre of the International Theatre Institute) and Bezirkskulturfonds Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, "Earthport" will be performed at Vierte Welt on 6, 7, 8 and 10 May 2016. For this special occasion, Vierte Welt will be holding a public discussion on 11 May 2016 at 19:00h, bringing together -as speakers- the team of the theatre production, along with researchers, scholars, artists and activists to explore the experience of "Earthport" closely through the lens of practice, theory and intersectionality. The event is an initiative to study this performative form as a medium of inter-culturality and intersectionality, as well as its ability to contain different fields of communicative actions while making space for a unique acting craft that serves a universal human encounter transcending barriers."