a documentary theatre workshop
At the beginning of every public change there is a coming out. Whether it is about sexuality, faith, illness, a dissident political conviction, the desire to die, the showing of a work of art or the expression of a stupid thought.
People go out, to come out. They cross the boundary of shame. Expose themselves, give themselves a voice, be it spoken, written, whispered, ruffled or with a deliberate silence. Exhibit their body. Make themselves visible, criticizable, attackable - in short: vulnerable.
But that vulnerability also undergoes a re-evaluation through this act of sharing. It suddenly turns from a supposed deficiency into an ability: Vulner-ability! The ability to be vulnerable, attackable and mortal.
During the two- and half-day workshop we will examine the interrelation between the act of coming-out, documentarism and vulnerability. How is it related to reality and the structural as well as legal violence that it is constituted by? Nikitin will share his theatre work, and participants will be encouraged to share their vulner-abilities. Rather than a top-down approach, the workshop will be a discursive one, where through dialogue we will collectively discuss the idea of sharing our "truth" in public.
The workshop is open to all— Non-actors, activists, artists, lawyers, researchers, filmmakers, scientists, students, academics, photographers, for example.
The second international Documentary Theatre workshop from our series Starting Realities, presented by Drama Queen in collaboration with Point of View
Workshop facilitator: Boris Nikitin
Starting Realities curated by Anuja Ghosalkar & Kai Tuchmann
Suggested Participant Contribution: Rs.1000/-
To Register call or email: info@pointofview.org or drama0912queen@gmail.com
PH: 9920340476, 9886741331
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About Boris Nikitin
The theatre director, author and essayist Boris Nikitin, born in Basel and a son of Ukrainian-Slovakian-French-Jewish immigrants, writes and directs in the international independent theatre scene as well as in established city theatres. He is the initiator and artistic director of the festival “It’s The Real Thing” that takes place biennially in Basel/Switzerland. For the last ten years his theatre works and festival have been reflecting the representation and production of reality and identity in politics, economy, religion, personal stories and in the arts. Nikitin’s pieces, texts and programs always look for the dazzling boundary between performance and illusion-theatre highlighting the ambiguous and the potential in which individuality and the capacity to act become thinkable in new ways.
In 2017 Nikitin was given the J. M. R. Lenz-dramatist award by the city of Jena. In his citation Professor Nikolaus Müller-Schöll writes: “It is the hidden possibilities, a potentiality that stays in the realm of the possible, around which Nikitin assembles his experimental setups. His theatre invites us to think within the existing and its negation about what there is to come: other then we expect, critical in every sense, without cause, maybe strange, definitely beyond the known.” His production of HAMLET (2015) has toured successfully across Europe and he is currently (2018-19) the Christoph Schlingensief Visiting Professor at University Bochum.
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