Four performers frolic across the stage wrapped in huge padded bulges. They cuddle and fight. They talk about being a mother, not being a mother and the meaning of life. What influence does the bonding hormone oxytocin have? Does it guide our behavior? Or is it we who control the hormones? The performers approach these big questions with classical vocals …

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Whether you are a young artist, a newcomer or a seasoned veteran - we invite you to an informal meet and greet over coffee and cake with representatives of Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, Cafe Royal Kulturstiftung, Behörde für Kultur und Medien, Rusch-Stiftung, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung and the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung. Friday, 21.04.2023 2–4 PM FUNDUS Theater …

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About the content: Welcome to the exhibition of the FUNDUS Theater. Choose one of our many everyday objects of the Fundus and elicit its possibilities! Here, adults and children can dive in, discover a thing of their choice sensually and go on a research trip with it to its personality. The various stations offer you ever new inspiration. What name could …

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A body on stage in repetitive movements: Stop and Go. Realigning, circling, steps. The dancer Venetsiana Kalampaliki is surrounded by surfaces onto which text is projected that explains, supplements and comments. In this way, the spectators are given free space for new trains of thought and contexts of meaning. PHRASES reduces the stage action and focuses …

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The audience enters a sphere made of white balloon silk and is immersed in a multimedia installation. Fragments from the movements of two dancers, from light and sound are assembled kaleidoscopically into ever new images - quickly paced, jerky, enigmatic. The source material for this choreography was the digital score of an earlier work by Véronique …

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Hydra is a creative coding environment developed by Olivia Jack to create and publish visualizations in real time, especially in the web browser. Hydra is ideal for beginners and allows for the development of interactive visuals with little or no coding experience. Participants will learn how to generate glitchy images and how to use code to create their …

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Welcome to the exhibition of the FUNDUS Theater. Choose one of our many everyday objects from the Fundus and elicit its possibilities! Here, adults and children can dive in, discover a thing of their choice sensually and go on an expedition with it to its personality. The various stations offer you ever new inspiration. What name could your object have? …

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We invite all actors of the independent scene to envision the future of theater or that of a contemporary cultural institution. The focus will be on new ways of looking at "theater" as well as on the social and spatial potential of public space. The event in the form of a fishbowl discussion will take place in the former car dealership at Rentzelstraße 36, …

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Do you sometimes feel lonely, exhausted or lazy? Then this evening might interest you. In the theatrical and promotional event of an un-security service, you will learn why your feelings are political. The INSECURITY uncovers a secret that everyone knows about but no one talks about. The INSECURITY is lonely, exhausted and lazy. The INSECURITY doesn't know …

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The audience enters a sphere made of white balloon silk and is immersed in a multimedia installation. Fragments from the movements of two dancers, from light and sound are assembled kaleidoscopically into ever new images - quickly paced, jerky, enigmatic. The source material for this choreography was the digital score of an earlier work by Véronique …

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Welcome to the exhibition of the FUNDUS Theater. Choose one of our many everyday objects from the Fundus and elicit its possibilities! Here, adults and children can dive in, discover a thing of their choice sensually and go on an expedition with it to its personality. The various stations offer you ever new inspiration. What name could your object have? …

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With the musician Leo Hofmann we explore unconventional settings and potentials of sound design and theater music. Microphones and loudspeakers become instruments and co-performers. Thanks to wireless devices we get into motion and explore how sound can become a performative tool. We leave the usual stereo boxes switched off and think about alternative ways …

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The audience enters a sphere made of white balloon silk and is immersed in a multimedia installation. Fragments from the movements of two dancers, from light and sound are assembled kaleidoscopically into ever new images - quickly paced, jerky, enigmatic. The source material for this choreography was the digital score of an earlier work by Véronique …

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A kilam is a special form of Kurdish poetry. From the 1970s to the 1990s, countless kilams on tapes traveled back and forth between Germany and other countries. They bear witness to the Kurdish diaspora. Listening to them over and over again helped in the loneliness. In her performance, Jacqueline Saki Aslan plays cassettes. In front of a curtain in a …

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"Every story has a starting sound. Ours sounds like that." With a first sound, the two Kurdish performers take us into a story of birds, migration, love and civil war. Their starting point is the novel of the same name by Bakhtyr Ali, set in southern Kurdistan. They build bridges between traditional Kurdish narrative techniques, following the beauty of this …

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And we get closer...we get to know each other better...we network...we communicate with each other...and together we find a common goal...common words...common hope...common movements...we become one. The rhythmic journey will be accompanied by the two Hamburg dancers and choreographers Bella Boldt and Babak Radmehr. THERE ARE NO MORE SPOTS AVAILABLE!

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Over coffee and tea, (up-and-coming) artists from Hamburg, artists from different regions of Germany, as well as directors of festivals and institutions of the independent scene come together. Similar to speed dating, the artists then have the opportunity to briefly introduce themselves personally, finally get rid of pressing questions, or quite gallantly …

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It's business as usual: the independent performing arts scene is in a process of reorientation. For years, artists have been busy with new projects, new collaborations, new themes, new funding applications, new funding models and new audiences. Young artists have become part of the scene in Hamburg. Artists from other German states have moved to Hamburg. …

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Do you know the story about the "damsel in distress"? You certainly do! Because she's everywhere: whether as Andromeda in Greek mythology or King Kong's white woman in the movies. A beautiful young woman is kidnapped by a monster and it takes a male hero to rescue her. In the context of a computer game based on interviews with real, defensible women, three …

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At this workshop, the Hamburg-based collective Meine Damen und Herren will draw attention to barriers from their practice and explore them together with the participants: What does accessible curation mean? What are the needs of collectives with artists with disabilities? On which levels of the programming process must barrier reduction be considered? …

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The performers dive into oversized terrycloth slippers, losing their orientation and having to be fished out again by a four-meter-long sock. A giant sun hat transformed into the moon stands in the sky and watches them. He wonders: Where do these people actually come from? And what are they doing? SNITMØNSTER opens up a world full of images, sounds and …

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In her solo, dancer and choreographer Verena Brakonier invites her audience into a car repair shop. She dances and tells of experiences and memories. What is true and what is not remains unclear: an autofiction. Playfully and with critical humor, she shows how one's origins can affect one's body and one's path through life. Between lifting platform, tires …

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"You can be anything you want to be". This song line by Freddy Mercury could be written over Hans' biography. For Lea Ralf's grandfather had many identities: National Socialist, leftist, family man, free-loving homosexual and finally stigmatized AIDS patient. Three performers and two musicians bring the granddaughter's research episodically to life: with …

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We invite the makers of [in]operabilities to answer this question with examples of good practice. Emil Leske, Susanne Tod, Benjamin van Bebber and Leo Hofmann will present their practice of "multi-sensory" music making by means of practical exercises and stories from their joint music theater work. In the interplay of sign poetry, singing, haptic sound …

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In her solo, dancer and choreographer Verena Brakonier invites her audience into a car repair shop. She dances and tells of experiences and memories. What is true and what is not remains unclear: an autofiction. Playfully and with critical humor, she shows how one's origins can affect one's body and one's path through life. Between lifting platform, tires …

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The performers dive into oversized terrycloth slippers, losing their orientation and having to be fished out again by a four-meter-long sock. A giant sun hat transformed into the moon stands in the sky and watches them. He wonders: Where do these people actually come from? And what are they doing? SNITMØNSTER opens up a world full of images, sounds and …

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For this purpose, the Participation Office invites you to richly set tables with full glasses of our famous mediation drinks (wine and non-alcoholic beverages). And there is still room for you and your practice at the tables: artists and organizers are invited to get various impulses for low-barrier productions and inclusive artists can present their work. …

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In her solo, dancer and choreographer Verena Brakonier invites her audience into a car repair shop. She dances and tells of experiences and memories. What is true and what is not remains unclear: an autofiction. Playfully and with critical humor, she shows how one's origins can affect one's body and one's path through life. Between lifting platform, tires …

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"You can be anything you want to be". This song line by Freddy Mercury could be written over Hans' biography. For Lea Ralf's grandfather had many identities: National Socialist, leftist, family man, free-loving homosexual and finally stigmatized AIDS patient. Three performers and two musicians bring the granddaughter's research episodically to life: with …

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