songs of absence (Anna Konjetzky & Co) | world premiere Oct 31, 2023
Dance piece by Anna Konjetzky | world premiere | 31.10.2023 6 pm, 01.11.2023 4 pm & 7 pm | HP8, Saal X, Munich
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songs of absence (Anna Konjetzky & Co) | world premiere Oct 31, 2023
Dance piece by Anna Konjetzky | world premiere | 31.10.2023 6 pm, 01.11.2023 4 pm & 7 pm | HP8, Saal X, Munich
#TakeHeart Residenzen @ Meta Theater
For the third time, 12 artists have the chance to work artistically on a research project for two months. Under the roof of the Meta Theatre they can experiment, research, exchange ideas and fail. We are excited!
The residency at Meta Theatre will end on 20 May 2023 at 7pm with a public FINALE.
„Children of Compost“
2022–24
“Children of Compost” as part of the international cooperation project future.repair.machine explores the concept of repair as a sustainable and innovative tool in the cultural social environment of the city of Munich. The project connects artists, scientists and citizens with the aim of helping to sustainably shape the present for future generations.
Team: Angelika Fink, Elsa Büsing, Katja Kettner, Astrid Behrens
HERE=NOW 2023 – Platform for contemporary dance
HERE=NOW – Platform for Contemporary Dance | Open Space Performances Thurs. 4/13 – Sat. 4/15/2023, 8pm & Sun. 4/16/2023, 6pm.
“O Heaven, o Earth”
An evening of songs, songs and the storm | by Otfried Büsing
Fri. 28.04.2023, 7 p.m. | University of Music, Freiburg (Chamber Music Hall)
Wusch! Zak! Puf! (Léonard Engel)
Who hasn’t dreamed of becoming invisible? Or looking bigger and stronger? Or even being a completely different being? | For children from 6 years
The Magic Of Hybrid Theatre
Mon. 19.12.2022, 19:00 | at the Meta Theatre and digitally on Zoom
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The attempt to performatively combine two analogue performance spaces in a third digital space.
The most diverse arts meet in this experiment: painting, singing, performance, (electronic) music, video, light.
„PAROTIA“ | FREISCHWIMMEN meets RODEO
Performance for three whirling dancers – a hypnotic and sculptural dance piece by Léonard Engel. | Fr. 14.10. & Sat. 15.10.2022 at schwere reiter, Munich
“Kick-Off flausen+ bayern”
by artists for artists – promoting connections! Use synergies! Strengthen the independent scene in the area! | 19.09.22, Theatre Chapeau Claque, Bamberg
“PLAYING PLACES” | THINK BIG! Festival
collective performance on Max-Joseph-Platz
SPURENSUCHE 2022 | June 19–22, 2022
From June 19 to 22, 2022, the working festival of independent children’s and youth theaters will take place. Under the motto PERSPEKTIV:WECHSEL, SPURENSUCHE aims to initiate change processes and thus ensure more diversity and fewer barriers on the aesthetic, structural and personnel levels.
Léonard Engel’s “PAROTIA” selected for RODEO Festival 2022!
I am happy to announce that “PAROTIA” will be featured at this year’s edition of the RODEO Festival in October 2022.
“Three dancers spin around their own axis – slowly at first, then faster and faster; their floor-length skirts form colourful spinning tops. That’s all it takes to make Léonard Engel’s Parotia (‘Bird of Paradise’) a spectacular evening of dance. One thinks of classical fouettés, of Bauhaus dances; but also of Sufi whirls, waltzes and Alpine dirndl dancing. The abstract, sensual events cast a spell over you, at the same time forcing you to think about tradition and cultural appropriation. Who ‘owns’ the revolving dance? At the end, the dancers take off their skirts and stagger around the room. The floor sways beneath our feet.”
Jury statement
HERE=NOW Platform for Contemporary Dance | 28 Apr – 01 May 2022
HERE=NOW is an artists-for-artists initiative by Johanna Richter and Birgitta Trommler.
#TakeHeart Residencies @MetaTheater
New round, new luck: 16 artists can once again pursue their artistic research with an open mind under the roof of Meta Theater from February to May 2022. They will be accompanied by mentors and can exchange ideas in monthly work evenings. We are very much looking forward to it!
WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE? – Nov. 2021
At the end of life, you ask yourself what you have lived for. You know that your life will not be long anymore. But the finite, the limited is also what gives freedom. A theatre project by Christine Umpfenbach. | Performances as part of the SPIELART Festival
The schwere reiter new building is now “open – we are open” | since Fri. 17.09. & Sat. 18.09.2021
Artists from the independent scene show themselves and open a new house
#TakeCare Residencies Closing | Thurs. June 17, 2021, 6 p.m.
We would like to look back: To a successful programme, to the #TakeCareResidencies as an absolutely necessary funding instrument. The theatre wrede+ Oldenburg, the Societaetstheater Dresden and I for the Meta Theater Moosach as residencies are there live! | Livestream Event
LURE is part of the “Digital Dozen 2021”!
The Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab has selected our Open Studio project LURE – a music-theatrical exploration of AI for the “Digital Dozen 2021 awards – Breakthroughs in Storytellling“. We’ re very excited about this!
#TakeCare Residencies @ meta theater
The research projects at Meta Theatre started with an analogue-digital kick-off evening on 16.11.2020 and celebrated their analogue-digital FINALE on 12.04.2021.
Art is a process, not a product
Feb. 3, 2021 Süddeutsche Zeitung / Ebersberg – Creative in the crisis : art is a process, not a product (German)
My short #TakeCareResidencies interim report on the success of artistic research.
Now, halfway through the residency period, it becomes clear that this is precisely what seems to be the special challenge: to free oneself from the idea of having to “deliver” something, but to be allowed to fail, to allow oneself to follow the traces that become visible in the process without immediately thinking, in an act of self-censorship, about whether this will lead anywhere and whether one will ever reach a goal and result in this way.
CHORUS PROJECT / Digital Festival „Democracy 2.0“
Who is the choir today? Who gets to speak? Who is the narrator? Who is writing history? What changes of perspective are necessary? And how does the ancient crisis fan out anew for us against the current and global crisis?
LURE – A music-theatrical Exploration of AI
A curious and creative character awakens. Developed inside a computer, it longs to learn…
ON THE ROAD 2020 Munich (IETM)
How do we want our art form and our continent to be reshaped in the future?
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Here you can get the summary of the meeting!
CHORUS PROJECT | Guest Performances in Graz (Steirischer Herbst) | October 9/10, 2020
RELOAD. THE FURIES
Thanks to the Reload Scholarship of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, we can now with THE FURIES
GIVE US TIME – TAKE US TIME
In other words, to step out of the mill: to ask, doubt, reject, start anew, ideas, perspectives, experiments, self-understanding – to give space and time to solidary discussions.
we were live again:
THE CHORUS PROJECT / AGAMEMNON
a feministic visual poem
19./20. Juni 2020, Schwere Reiter, Munich
MLure.art // Our New Blog for ‘Machine Learning in Music and Theatre’
MLure.art functions as a hub for the testing and research of machine learning (“artificial intelligence”) in music and theatre. Participants of the research projects: Mathis Nitschke (initiator), Elsa Büsing, Klasien van de Zandschulp, Luciano Pinna, Patrick van der Smagt, Djalel Benbouzid and Boton Cseke.
New publication: “Dialogue – a way through crisis”
The essay has now been published in “ACT – Zeitschrift für Musik und Performance” (www.act.uni-bayreuth.de). In it I deal with the dialogicity of the production “ACCATTONE” (J. Simons, Ruhrtriennale 2015). The essay is available for download on demand.
“A moment of Life Art”
Guest post for Mathis Nitschke on my experiences with the production “Isolde”.
The Publication on the IETM Meetin in Munich has been published
Quo vadis Europe?
“Silently in Conversation? Opera as multi-dimsional Dialogue”
Lecture at Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, January 2019.
