“Gesellschaftsspiele”: the Workshops
The workshops are aimed at theatre artists working across all disciplines; directors, set or costume designers, actors, dramaturgs, playwrights or those with other artistic roles.  |
Workshop 1 – Theatre, Text, Discourse: “René Pollesch as René Pollesch” Led by René Pollesch Theatremaker René Pollesch combines texts, events and workshop participants in a theatrical here and now: Berlin in May 08. |
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Workshop 2 – Theatre, Discourse, Concept: “The Open Collective. Theatre as a Process of Social Investigation” Led by Sibylle Peters & Matthias Anton in cooperation with the geheimagentur (the secret agents) Performance artists and academics Sibylle Peters and Matthias Anton conduct a theoretical and practical investigation of contemporary performances between collaboration, intervention and participation. |
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Workshop 3 – Body, Art, Context: “Related Gestures. Moving Alongside Antigone” Led by deufert + plischke Choreographers and conceptual artists Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke translate source material into a physical language of patterns, gestures and sequences. A collective authorship develops out of a collaborative process with the participants. |
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Workshop 4 – Play: “Theatre as Chaos Factory” Led by Bruno Cathomas Swiss actor and director Bruno Cathomas develops, plays with and opens up ways of acting and playing out of the creative chaos of the group just as much as from the unlikely ideas of individuals, irrespective of whether they are actors, directors or… |