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Meet the choreographers, hear the festival critics reflect on what they’ve seen and experience performing arts at the cinema. In addition to presenting a wide range of international performances in dance, theatre, contemporary circus and performance art, we also host seminars, talks, workshops, film screenings, parties and a relaxed hang-out-area at Stora Teatern.
Film programme:
The film Galloping Mind directed by Wim Vandekeybus will be screened at Bio Roy. Photo: Danny Willems
Performing arts at the cinema
Borders are constantly being erased. What was once razor sharp is now intertwined, in flux. Affect, affected, give and receive impressions. The same goes for performing arts. What is performing arts? What isn’t performing arts? Is it dance, theatre, text, performance or perhaps even film? In working with this year’s festival we’ve noticed that the borders are no longer that obvious. Several of our invited artists are also very talented filmmakers. As a result of this, we want to invite you into the world of cinema to enjoy performing arts as moving images, in motion pictures, documentaries and theatre film, during the festival. We want to enrich your experience and perception of performing arts, but we also want to expand and help erase the borders that are in the way of real meetings.
More information on the film program will be presented soon, so keep an eye out!
The Festival Conference:
Arkadi Zaides´s performance Archive is based on documentary video recordings depicting the conflicts in the West Bank. Photo: Ronen Guter
The role of performing arts in a rapidly changing world
Moderator: America Vera-Zavala, theatre director and writer
We are seeing drastic changes in attitudes, self-images, conditions, actions. What is the role and the place of art? What is the artist’s place? How do we act in a world that is so rapidly changing? This year’s festival conference will put a spotlight on the relationship between performing arts and social responsibility in relation to the single most pressing political and humanitarian issue of the past year: – how do we take care of and relate to refugees looking for a new future in Europe?
The conference will connect movements in society and in the world with performing arts activism. We want to talk about the role art plays in society by being simultaneously both groundbreaking and including.
Both days start with a lecture, continue with selectable workshops/seminars and end with a panel discussion. Among the participants are Hagar Kotef – senior assistant master in political theory at SOAS, University of London. Dmitry Vilensky – artist, author and founder of Chto Delat. Arkadi Zaides – choreographer. Christian Lollike – playwright and director. Khaled Harara – hip hop-artist and Göteborgs Stads fristadsförfattare. Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt – performance artist, choreographer and author. Samira Motazedi – cultural writer and blogger. Frida Sandström – masters student Performative Practices DOCH.
August 25–26 2016, The Academy of Performing Art and Music / Gothenburg
Tickets to the Conference will be launched April 1. If you want to save your seat now buy our deal Festival Pro.
Festival Critics:
Sara Abdollahi är kulturjournalist, initiativtagare bakom den uppmärksammade kulturplattformen Kultwatch och chefredaktör för tidskriften Författaren.
Listen to our festival critics talk about what they have seen
Have you experienced powerful, strange or funny performances during the festival week? Are you longing to hear some very bright people reflect on the festival performances and the programme? Then you definitely need to attend the festival lunch talks! We have asked a number of culture-personalities to take part in talks about the festival performances and the program – in short, these are carefully selected festival critics! Participants: Aris Fioretos (här skulle man ju vilja ha korta beskrivningar) , Nisha Besara, Ingrid Elam, Sara Abdollahi, Liz Aggiss and Zafire Vrba.
Artist Talks:
The Belgian choreographer and film director Wim Vandekeybus is the founder of the dance company Ultima Vez. In connection with his performance Speak low if you speak love ... he appears involved in an Artist Talk. Photo: Danny Willems
Meet the artists
During the festival Artist Talks you will meet some of the participating artists in a relaxed bar setting, directly connected to a selection of the festival’s performances. The talks are lead by actors, dramaturges and theatre directors at the various hosting venues.
More information to come.
Festivities:
Photo: Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival
The parties take place at Stora Teatern
During the festival we will naturally host a number of parties. The place is Stora Teatern – this is where we create the heart and the living room of the festival – a place for dancing, talking, meeting friends and colleagues. We kick-off the festival with the opening party Thursday August 18, directly after the opening performance at Stora Teatern. On August 27 we celebrate the end of the festival with a grand closing party at the Stora Teatern main club. In between this we can promise you a nice hang out spot and cool drinks at Stora Teatern’s outdoor area where we will create a wonderful meeting place for the audience and our visiting artists.
Residency:
Watch ICoDaCo develop a brand new piece
During this year’s festival we collaborate with Gothenburg based dance company ilDance in an international dance residency taking place at the dance studio at Stora Teatern. The residency means that dance artists Johanna Nuutinen from Finland, Gwyn Emberton from Wales and Luke Pell from Scotland will come to Gothenburg to work with Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni from ilDance. Together they will create a brand new piece – Babulus.
The residency consists of open rehearsals, morning classes and other opportunities for the audience to take part of the process. More information coming soon.