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Zurück zur RetrospektiveThe international guest performance program of Augenblick mal! has always placed a focus on international developments in children’s and youth theater and presented artistic impulses from abroad to add additional accents to the schedule of programming. Supported by a network of experts, we set out on the search for contemporary forms of artistic confrontation and a playful approach to current social realities in Europe. After all, it is the playful approach that allows openness and questions, creates opportunities and examines boundaries.
In doing so, it was important to us not only to look in the direction of Western Europe, but to turn our gaze to the east as well. After our first viewings, we noticed recurring motifs in a series of different productions: the use of a dance-like approach with changing views of the body and the inscribed behavior and movements patterns as well as a confrontation with entrenched or dissipating identities and the associated experiences at the boundaries of these.
Following this trail, we found what we were looking for in Belarus, where the choreographer Yevgieny Korniag makes independent theater with his own company and, as he does so, overcomes not only the boundaries of the state-supported art there which is marked by conventions but also touches upon the societal taboos of his homeland with his dance performance Latent Men. In the Netherlands, we found HIP HOP HURRAY, a production for children where the urban aesthetic of hip-hop and its social roots become an invitation to a cultural diverse audience. And, in Sweden, we came upon the international dance company SOMOS and their production Trans[e]ición, in which Swedish and Cuban dancers, accompanied by sounds from both cultures, examine ritual patterns and make diversity the basis of their physical communication using a mixture of artistic expressions.
All three works provide stimulus for the special discussions which can be conducted during the post-performance discussions in English as well as in the international panel discussion examining the discursive leitmotif of the international selection.
Gerd Taube and Kay Wuschek
