Opening with "GEISTER - Fragment XL" at Schauspiel Köln

OPENING

The festival will start with the welcome speeches on 8. May 2019 at 19.30 h by:
Presenter collective Tanzproduzenten-Konferenz NRW

Elfi Scho-Antwerpes
Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Köln

Dr. Stefanie Jenkner
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

Christine Peters
Kunststiftung NRW

18.30 Uhr Grotte and Foyer at Schauspiel Köln:
Lili M. Rampre "AUTHORISED"

In “AUTHORISED”, the roles are reversed. In recorded interview sequences, audience members take up the perspective of the artist. The result is a witty installation that poses questions of authorship and examines aspects of audience perception. How does the artistic work resonate in the audience? What creative process do they imagine behind the pieces seen and to what extent can they put themselves in the shoes of the choreographers? Five of the productions featured in the festival have participated in this extraordinary project exploring perspectives on art.

Following the welcome speeches at Depot 2 of Schauspiel Köln:
Ben J. Riepe Kompanie "GEISTER - Fragment XL"
In “GEISTER – Fragment XL” (“GHOSTS – fragment XL”) Ben J. Riepe turns the performance space into a screen. Just as in the digital world, the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred, giving rise to realms of possibility between materiality and immateriality, spirit and flesh, human and machine. Riepe stages a psychedelic “trip” through intensely vivid and flamboyant labyrinthine spaces between the conscious and the subconscious, between digital and analogue reality. The work moves into different spaces, occupies new places and consequently develops further.

Afterwards reception