Audio Features

Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch

We conclude this year's festival edition with »Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch«. There could not be a more suitable text, as it brings together a multitude of motifs, thoughts and preoccupations from past productions of this year's Ruhrtriennale. Barbara Frey and the actress Nina Hoss approach this text, which is not only intellectually challenging, but at the same time extremely performative, in the Mischanlange of the Kokerei Zollverein in Essen. Ruhrtriennale dramaturge Judith Gerstenberg spoke with the two artists. Why Barbara Frey wanted to realize this work alone with Nina Hoss, why the latter finds the text »voluptuous« and why the Mischanlage is the ideal location for the production, you can find out in this introduction to »Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch«.

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La posibilidad de la ternura / Die Möglichkeit von Zärtlichkeit

In the internationally acclaimed project »Paisajes para no colorear«, La Re-sentida placed the stories of young women from Santiago de Chile on stage in a direct, raw and powerful manner. The performance was greeted with cheers and tears at Ruhrtriennale 2021 for the performers’ suffering, anger and the power of their performances. As a consequence and extension of this work, Marco Layera and his team now want to question the construct of masculinity.

Ruhrtriennale dramaturge Aljoscha Begrich introduces the piece and talks about the origins of the project as well as the questions the performers and participants address in it.

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THE VISITORS

With THE VISITORS, Constanza Macras continues the collaboration between DorkyPark and many of the young South African performers from her successful show »Hillbrowfication«. Together they dive into the strange world of slasher films and try to free themselves from the grip of the monsters through non-linear narratives and humorous associations.

Ruhrtriennale dramaturge Aljoscha Begrich places the idea of the play in the social context of South Africa and explains who the monsters from times past are, who determine the reality of people's lives as a matter of course.

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MONUMENT 0.10: THE LIVING MONUMENT

With »Monument 0.10: The Living Monument« choreographer Eszter Salamon creates a monochrome world of intense colors in which time seems to stand still. The choreography, developed together with 14 performers from Carte Blanche, forms dreamlike landscapes of bodies, fabrics and objects that constantly transform and come together anew, in which past, present and future exist simultaneously.

Maja Zimmermann is dramaturgue and part of the programme team at PACT Zollverein and will introduce the piece, let us participate in Eszter Salamon's artistic practice and situate the now more than tenth part of the Monument series in the series of works of the same name.

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Aus einem Totenhaus

In a Siberian prison camp, there are no heroes. Whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, nobles or commoners – everyone is equal here, united in a horror that never ends. Fyodor Dostoyevsky experienced this personally and described it in precise detail in his Notes from the House of the Dead. These provided the material for Janáček’s final opera. Raw sounds and insistent rhythms make the harsh reality of life in the campalmost physically tangible. Star director and stage designer Dmitri Tcherniakov takes this idea even further in the vast dimensions of the Jahrhunderthalle: abolishing the division between the artists and the audience in one giant, walk-through stage installation.

Barbara Eckle, head dramaturge for music theater and concert at the Ruhrtriennale, introduces the piece in advance and talks with director and set designer Dmitri Tcherniakov.

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Le jardin des délices / Der Garten der Lüste

The acclaimed French festival star Philippe Quesne makes his debut as a director at the Ruhrtriennale – with his new project Le jardin des délices / Der Garten der Lüste which is also the large-scale retrospective of his previous theater work with the Vivarium Studio, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023.

Ruhrtriennale dramaturgue Judith Gerstenberg witnessed the production and in this introduction talks about Philippe Quesne's collaboration with the Vivarium Studio and puts »Le jardin des délices« in the cosmos of their previous works.

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EXÓTICA

Exótica is the name of the new work by choreographer and dancer Amanda Pina, which is celebrating its German premiere at PACT Zollverein as part of the Ruhrtriennale. Exótica is a tribute to all forgotten performers of color who have found no place in the canon of dance history and are only slowly being rediscovered.

Ruhrtriennale dramaturge Nina Bade spoke before the premiere with the work's dramaturge, Prof. Dr. Nicole Haitzinger, about the process of creating the work and the people negotiated on stage.

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Abendlob und Morgenglanz

Mit der ganzen Klangpracht und Strahlkraft des »Großen Abend- und Morgenlobs« für gemischten Chor a-cappella von Sergej Rachmaninow bringt CHORWERK RUHR unter der Leitung von Florian Helgath die sakral anmutende Maschinenhalle der Zeche Zollern zum Erklingen. Kraftvoll, dann wiederum filigran verwendet Rachmaninow alte russische, griechische und ukrainische Melodien und verbindet diese mit seiner eigenen spätromantischen Klangsprache. Ruhrtriennale-Dramaturg Andri Hardmeier führt vorab in das Konzert ein.

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EXTRA LIFE

Two siblings who meet again at the end of a night of partying. A trauma that abruptly destroyed their close childhood relationship. A moment that now perhaps makes another life possible. After the great success of »L’Étang/Der Teich«, the Austrian-French choreographer Gisèle Vienne presents her new work »EXTRA LIFE« at the Ruhrtriennale 2023.

Judith Gerstenberg, Head Dramaturg at the Ruhrtriennale for Drama, Dance and Performance, met Gisèle Vienne before the world premiere of »EXTRA LIFE« on 16 August. About a universalist of the humanities and arts, about manifestations of our perception and about the one special moment when past, present and future coincide.

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Audioeinführung: Skatepark

In her new work, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen transforms the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum into a Skatepark. Obstacles, edges and railings are transformed from a skate park in public space to a stage setting, making skating part of the dance vocabulary. Judith Gerstenberg, Head Dramaturg at the Ruhrtriennale for Drama, Dance and Performance, visited the production in advance.

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Audioeinführung: Die Erdfabik

Andri Hardmeier, dramaturg of the production Die Erdfabrik, met composer and Ernst von Siemens Music Award winner Georges Aperghis for the introduction of this piece, which will premiere from 11 August as part of the Ruhrtriennale 2023. It begins an imaginary journey down through layered time, into the cultural heritage of the Ruhr region.

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Audioeinführung: Ein Sommernachtstraum

Barbara Frey calls Shakespeare's masterpiece »A Midsummer Night's Dream« a »play of the hour« which has enchanted and bewildered audiences for more than 400 years. With this play, the artistic director of the Ruhrtriennale opens this year's Festival of the Arts in the Kraftzentrale of the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. Dramaturge Andreas Karlaganis introduces the play in advance.

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Episode 3: Play Big!

Big band and symphony orchestra are like penguin and polar bear – they practically never meet. And not without reason: the improvisational freedom of jazz and the complex construction of classical compositions stand for two completely opposite approaches to music making, which composers rarely unite. And if they do?

This is the question posed by the program text of Play Big!, a concert program with compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina, Michael Wertmüller and Simon Steen-Andersen as part of the Ruhrtriennale 2023. Holger Noltze met the musical director of the evening, Titus Engel, as well as the composer Michael Wertmüller for this episode of the Ruhrtriennale Podcast and spoke with them about the experience of this encounter.

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Episode 2: Aus einem Totenhaus

In this new episode, music journalist Holger Noltze turns his attention to the production Aus einem Totenhaus and talks with Dennis Russell Davies, the production's musical director, and singer Johan Reuter, who embodies the character of Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov, about Leoš Janáček's unique musical language and the challenge of completely erasing the separation between performers and audience.

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Episode 1: Die Erdfabrik

With Die Erdfabrik, Georges Aperghis has created for the Ruhrtriennale a universal and intimate chamber opera of the senses, primal emotions and ideas, an homage to the power of human imagination that is both humorous and profound.

Holger Noltze visited the rehearsals in the Duisburg Gebläsehalle. In conversation with Uli Fussenegger, double bass player, composer and musical director for »Die Erdfabrik« about the fascination of Georges Aperghis, his sound language and the special features of this »théâtre musical«.

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