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NEWSLETTER #02-2018Leipzig, 29.10.2018

06. Nov. – 11. Nov. 2018

euro-scene Leipzig»Bühnen – Klang – Welten«

(»Stage – Sound – Worlds«)

Music in theatre and dance

Under the patronage of Burkhard Jung,Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig 

CONTENTS

1. Conception euro-scene Leipzig

2. Main programme 3. Fringe programme4. Artistic Advisory Council5. Festival box office and

festival café6. Further activities of

euro-scene Leipzig7. Membership and

imprint8. Financing 2018

1. Conception of the festival

Alain Patel & Fabrizio Cassol /les ballets C de la B, Ghent »Requiem pour L.«

euro-scene Leipzig will take place for the 28th time from  06. – 11. November 2018. This year 11 guest performances from 7 countries in 20 representations at 8 venues will be shown; among them are 5 German premières. The spectrum includes dance and spoken theatre, music theatre, performances and a children’s piece.  Under the motto »Bühnen – Klang – Welten« (»Stage – Sound – Worlds«) the festival is devoted to music in theatre and dance, whereby numerous forms of implementing music in scenic stage forms will play a role, for example in a relationship to live music, sound, noise, text and silence. The scenic concert »Requiem pour L.« (»Requiem for L.«) by the famous Belgian choreographer Alain Platel will open the festival. Nikolaus Habjan, prominent puppet builder, puppeteer, director and performer from Vienna, performs his piece »Böhm« about the conductor Karl Böhm. The piece was staged at the Schauspielhaus Graz and was recently nominated for the Nestroy-Preis (Nestroy-Award) 2018. In addition, the artistic whistling concert »Ich pfeife auf die Oper« (double meaning in German: »I whistle an opera« & »To hell with the opera«) will be shown. Further guest performances come from Great Britain, Hungary, Slovenia, Luxembourg and France. The guest performances will be supplemented by a fringe programme. Upon request the printed festival programme can be sent to you for free. It is also available under www.euro-scene.de.

Ann-Elisabeth WolffFestival Director

2. Main programme

The following guest performances can be seen at euro-scene Leipzig 2018:

06. Nov. // Alain Platel & Fabrizio Cassol /les ballets C de la B, Ghent// »Requiem pour L.«  (»Requiem for L.«) // Scenic concert after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem // Opening night 07. + 08. Nov. // Schauspielhaus Graz / Nikolaus Habjan // »Böhm« // Theatre piece with puppets // German première  07. + 08. Nov. // Nono Battesti / Compagnie Dessources, Brussels // »Double« // Dance piece   07. + 08. Nov // Via Negativa / Bojan Jablanovec, Ljubljana // »Deveta« (»The ninth«) // Performance after Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9  09. Nov. // Nikolaus Habjan, Vienna // »Ich pfeife auf die Oper« (double meaning in German: »I whistle an opera« & »To hell with the opera«) // Scenic artist whistling concert / Artist whistler and moderator: Nikolaus Habjan / Pianist: Daniel Nguyen 09. + 10. Nov. // Pygmalion Theater Wien //  »Die Schachnovelle« (»The royal game«) // Theatre piece based on Stefan Zweig by Geirun Tino // German première 09. + 10. Nov. // Compagnie ERRATICA, London //  »Remnants« // Music theatre by Patrick Eakin Young // German première 10. + 11. Nov. // Compagnie zOrozora, Grenoble //  »Une histoire de la musique« (»A history of music«) // Music theatre by Richard Navarro // German première (For children 7 years up)  10. + 11. Nov. // Gianfranco Celestino & Annalisa Derossi, Luxembourg // »Duo con piano – Tanzstück für zwei Pianisten« (»Duo con piano – dance piece for two pianists«) // Dance concert  10. + 11. Nov. // Ferenc Fehér, Budapest // »Állomás« (»The station«) // Dance piece  11. Nov. // Pierre Rigal / Compagnie dernière minute, Toulouse // »Scandale« (»Trip hazards«) // Dance piece // German première // Final night

Schauspielhaus Graz /Nikolaus Habjan »Böhm«German première

Compagnie zOrozora, Grenoble»Une histoire de la musique« German première(For children 7 years up)

Pierre Rigal /Compagnie dernière minute, Toulouse»Scandale«German première

3. Fringe programme

(Free entrance for all presentations except workshop)

08. Nov. // Film »Der Tod und das Mädchen« (»Death and the maiden«) by Roman Polański (1994) // Introduction: Dr. Martina Bako, Theatre scientist, Leipzig 09. Nov. // ARTE-film recording »Oberon, König der Elfen« (»Oberon, or the elf king’s oath«) // Opera by Carl Maria von Weber (1826), Staging: Nikolaus Habjan // Bayerische Staatsoper / Prinzregententheater, München 2017 // Film introduction and discussion: Nikolaus Habjan, Vienna, and Ann-Elisabeth Wolff, euro-scene Leipzig 10. Nov. // Technical tour »Die Räder im Getriebe« (»The wheels in motion«) // For the 9th time: Insight into stage technology // With Bernd Gengelbach, euro-scene Leipzig, and Antje Gruber, Schauspiel Leipzig 11. Nov. // Workshop »Tanz oder Musik zuerst?« (»Dance or music at first?«) with Gianfranco Celestino and Annalisa Derossi, Luxembourg to the dance concert »Duo con piano – Tanzstück für zwei Pianisten«

ARTE-film recording»Oberon, König der Elfen«Staging: Nikolaus Habjan

Gianfranco Celestino& Annalisa Derossi, LuxembourgDance concert and workshop

4. Artistic Advisory Council

In 1995 an artistic advisory council was founded consisting of internationally known experts for contemporary theatre. The members have advisory capacity and represent the festival internationally. 

The Advisory Council consists of the following members:/ Dr. Brigitte Fürle, Artistic Director Festspielhaus St. Pölten/ Prof. Jason Beechey, Rector Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden/ Tilmann Broszat, Artistic Director SPIEL.ART Festival, Munich/ Thomas Hahn, Journalist, Paris/ Christian Watty, consultant internationale tanzmesse nrw, Dusseldorf

5. Festival box office and festival café

Festival box office at the EnglandladenGottschedstraße 12, D-04109 LeipzigOpening hours: Until 05.11.: Monday – Friday 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. //

Saturday 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. // 06. - 11.11.: Daily 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Ticket hotline +49-(0)341-215 49 35tickets@euro-scene.de // www.euro-scene.de/tickets Festival café at Restaurant Barcelonaalso Gottschedstraße 12Opening hours during the festival:06. – 11.11.: Daily 5 p.m. – open end

6. Additional events at euro-scene Leipzig

The Österreichische Kulturforum Berlin (Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin) is supporting the three guest performances from Austria at euro-scene Leipzig. For the Kulturforum’s magazine »Kosmos Österreich« (»Kosmos Austria«), which is published three times per year, the festival director Ann-Elisabeth Wolff wrote an expansive essay »Nikolaus Habjan und die Kraft des gegenwärtigen Theaters« (»Nikolaus Habjan and the power of contemporary theatre«).    Nele Hertling, the former long-term director of Berlin’s Hebbel Theater (now HAU) and commendable dance networker, was awarded the Deutscher Tanzpreis 2018 (German Dance Award 2018) at the Aalto-Theater Essen by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland on 22.09.2018. Ann-Elisabeth Wolff wrote a contribution on the cooperation between Nele Hertling and euro-scene Leipzig for the commemorative publication.   On 12. and 13.10.2018, the TanzSpeicher Würzburg organized a solo dance competition for the first time; eight dancers made it to the final round. The audience selected an audience prize. Ann-Elisabeth Wolff was a part of the four-person expert jury. They awarded four prizes: Marcelina Liebner from Poland (1st prize), Elisabeth Kindler-Abali from Germany (2nd prize), Gonçalo Cruzinha from Portugal and Yotam Peled from Israel (3rd prizes).

Nele HertlingDeutscher Tanzpreis 2018

7. Membership and imprint

The euro-scene Leipzig is member of the following networks: / IETM (International network for contemporary performing arts), based in Brussels

/ International Theatre Institute (ITI), Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin

/ Tanzplattform Deutschland (Dance platform Germany) Content and editing: Ann-Elisabeth Wolff / Helene MagerEnglish translation: Christopher Langer, BerlinPhotographers: Chris Van der Burght, Ghent / Lupi Spuma Fine Photography, Graz / Compagnie zOrozora / Pierre Grosbois, Paris / Archiv privat / Wolfgang Raabe, Aachen / Ursula Kaufmann, EssenGraphic design: Martin Freitag, Leipzig // www.sinnergy.info Editorial deadline: 28.10.2018 Presenter: Sächsischer Verein zur Förderung des kulturellen Austauschs nationaler und internationaler Tanz- und Theatergruppen e. V. euro-scene Leipzig, Gottschedstraße 16, D-04109 Leipzig,Tel. +49-(0)341-980 02 84 // Fax +49-(0)341-980 48 60info@euro-scene.de // www.euro-scene.de

www.tanzplattform.de

www.iti-germany.de

www.ietm.org

8. Financing and support 2018

Promoters:

Sponsors and partners:IntercityHotel Leipzig / Der Englandladen, Leipzig / Restaurant Barcelona, Leipzig / PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Leipzig / Getränke Staude, Leipzig / Eventim, Bremen / KulturLeben Leipzig & Region

International and national support:(in order of guest performances)Regierung Flanderns, Berlin / Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin / Wallonie Bruxelles International (WBI), Brussels / Slowenisches Kulturzentrum Berlin / British Council & UK/DE 2018 / Institut français, Berlin & Französisches Ministerium für Kultur – DGCA, Paris / FOCUNA (Fonds Culturel National), Luxembourg

Venues:Schauspiel Leipzig / Theater der Jungen Welt / Schaubühne Lindenfels / Peterskirche Leipzig /Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig – Alte Handelsbörse / Passage Kinos

Culture partners:

NEWSLETTER #03-2018 will be published in the end of November 2018.

© euro-scene Leipzig 2018