On the Edge of the Cliff

Von |2025-09-19T09:18:20+01:0017. September, 2025|

Baro d’evels Falaise at the Ruhrtriennale 2025 On the Edge of the Cliff The premiere of Falaise on 11 September 2025 in the Kraftzentrale of Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord was not simply an evening of theatre. It was a return to poetry and attentiveness — for some, perhaps, even an initiation into another way of perceiving. [...]

WEARING THE MOURNING

Von |2025-09-19T09:19:14+01:0015. September, 2025|

Sharon Eyal’s deeply personal work – Delay the Sadness WEARING THE MOURNING Ruhrtriennale 2025 presents the world premiere of Sharon Eyal’s latest creation, Delay the Sadness, at the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum by Klaus Dilger In her previous choreographies Sharon Eyal has stood for a kind of collective ecstasy to which one could hardly resist. Her [...]

HE DID IT HIS WAY… AGAIN!

Von |2025-09-11T08:45:07+01:0025. August, 2025|

Ruhrtriennale 2025 Opens: HE DID IT HIS WAY… AGAIN! Ivo van Hove opens the Ruhrtriennale 2025 with the non-production I Did It My WayWhat went so thoroughly wrong? wonders the reviewer, looking back on the evening. by Klaus Dilger Last year, “Oscar-nominee” Sandra Hüller went in search of absolute beauty (I Want Absolute Beauty), [...]

Sinful light

Von |2024-05-01T20:21:55+01:0030. April, 2024|

The spectator gets no absolution… Sinful light Premiere of the Polish Dance Theatre and „Bodytalk“ with „24/7 New Sins“ in Poznan marks their fourth successful collaboration review by Barbara Kowalewska (Kultura u Podstaw portal) On 23 April 2024, the stage of the Polish Dance Theatre became for a moment a "theatrical pulpit" from which [...]

Gate to hell, gate to hope

Von |2024-03-28T08:40:15+01:0024. März, 2024|

Bielefeld Theatre presents Dunja Jocić's "The Gate". Powerful images create a sombre message: the abyss is within each of us. - By: Harff-Peter Schönherr You who enter here, abandon all hope! This is what is written on the gate to hell in Dante Alighieri's "Divina Commedia".

Gisèle Vienne’s world premiere of „EXTRA LIFE“

Von |2023-08-30T11:02:02+01:0017. August, 2023|

Gisèle Vienne's world premiere Better to be alien than used "Extra Life" as part of the Ruhrtriennale 2023 review by Melanie Suchy In the middle of the play, one wonders if it was conceived and rehearsed in the Corona era. Whether lockdown and spacing conditions led to only three people acting on a huge [...]

Sea of blood and brightness of hope

Von |2023-07-30T10:54:11+01:0030. Juli, 2023|

Sea of blood and brightness of hope The dance theatre company "Bodytalk" in Münster presents the "Westphalian Peace Ballet". Peace is kept within limits. The ballet too. By: Harff-Peter Schönherr Peace. This word is often heard in Münster these days. Inflationary often. The city celebrates the 375th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in [...]

Larsen C – CRAB WALK

Von |2022-11-10T12:15:11+01:0010. Oktober, 2022|

Larsen C CRAB WALK Greek choreographer and expert in vegan dramatics, Christos Papadopoulos, will be a guest at tanzhaus NRW on November 8 and 9. By Arnd Wesemann translated by Karoline Strys What a disaster. When a huge ice sheet broke off in Antarctica in July 2017, one-eighth of the Larsen C ice shelf, [...]

Wen Hui as Chinese Patti Smith at PACT Zollverein

Von |2022-09-07T06:24:39+01:006. September, 2022|

Ruhrtriennale 2022: Wen Hui as Chinese Patti Smith at PACT Zollverein People have the Power nightreview by Arnd Wesemann translated by Karoline Strys Corona put a spoke in her wheel. For months she had been commuting in Germany, in between Frankfurt and Essen, to Weimar, Munich and Berlin. She is like trapped, owning the [...]

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