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Nina Tecklenburg: New Narratives. How and Why to Tell Stories in Theater Today

MA 19.02.2018, klo 10-12
KLO 10:00 Reprum

Collecting objects, reading traces, retelling performances, tailoring identities, game narratives: artists in contemporary performance and theater have developed a whole range of new narrative techniques such as interdisciplinary theater installations, autobiographical storytelling performances, participatory role-playing games, or audio walks.

This lecture takes a close look at various theatrical narrative practices and their purposes, functions, effects and impacts: How does theater tell stories today? What does it mean to tell stories in non-literary theater? Why (still) tell stories in the 21st century?

Nina Tecklenburg is a performance maker, theatre theorist and a current guest professor at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and founding member of Interrobang. Since 2002, as a performer, co-director and dramaturge, she has realized a host of projects with very diverse artists and performance groups: Interrobang (of which she is a founding member), She She Pop, Gob Squad, Lone Twin Theatre, Baktruppen, Rabih Mroué, Reckless Sleepers amongst others. She writes on theatre and performance (The Drama Review, Theatre Research International, Performance Research), and teaches at Bard College Berlin, University of Hildesheim, Bern University of the Arts and Free University Berlin. Her book on new narrative practices in contemporary theatre and performance “Performing Stories” was published by transcript and is forthcoming in 2017 in an English translation edited by Richard Schechner and published by Seagull Books.

The Autonomous Actor is arranged with support by Svenska Kulturfonden. The lecture is supported by Goethe-Institut Finnland.