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The Goethe-Institut Washington, in partnership with the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) and the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics of Georgetown University (
The Lab), invites you to a public meet-and-greet discussion with prominent creators in the European theater scenes. These special guests will share their personal experiences within the field of communal theater-making, and address urgent social and political issues in their work. Together with Derek Goldman, co-director of The Lab and artistic director of the project, they will discuss how their different approaches to theater and the relationship between performers and audiences in their work interact with other social and political questions.
CrossCurrents is a city-wide theater festival that focuses on innovative artists from around the world who use the power of performance to humanize global politics. During the CrossCurrents Festival, The Lab will bring together more than 200 visionary artists from more than 40 countries between May 8 and May 11, 2019. EUNIC Washington, the network of national cultural institutes of the European Union, has, together with The Lab and as part of the festival, developed a project for a European theater residence involving theater professionals from seven European countries. In collaboration with cultural institutes and embassies in Washington, DC, The Lab welcomes these artists to a multi-day cultural and artistic exchange on the campus of Georgetown University. The invited artists are:
Anna Dora Dorno (Italy)
Philip Ehmann (Austria)
Alexander Karschnia (Germany)
Natálie Kocábová (Czech Republic)
Ana Margineau (Romania)
Mersiha Mesihovic (Bosnia / Sweden)
Lucia Miranda (Spain)
The Goethe-Institut Washington has invited Alexander Karschnia. Karschnia is a theater-maker and theater-scientist, performer, lyricist, theorist, and co-founder of
andcompany&Co theater collective. He writes about and for theater, in particular Brecht, Müller, Schlingensief, Pollesch, and Rimini Protokoll. Among the "sins of his youth" are the invention of the Frankfurt NachtTanzDemos (night.dance.demo) party, and the takeover of Schlingensief’s political party CHANCE 2000. Part of his work on the edge of science and art includes lecture performances or curating conferences such as "As a Pass Time" or "NA(AR) HET THEATER – after theater?" fort he Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in 2006 (both led to publications). He has been living and working in Berlin since 2007.
The theater collective andcompany&Co was established in 2003 in Frankfurt am Main. It was founded by Alexander Karschnia; theater-maker, author and performer Nicola Nord; and musician, performer, and composer Sascha Sulimma. In the spirit of its founding ideas, they create their work collaboratively with all members co-directing, co-writing, and co-producing the pieces. National and international artists from various disciplines that andcompany&Co regularly collaborate with also become equal co-combatants in the projects they are involved with. Now based at the HAU in Berlin, the collective’s creative network is therefore continually growing. This includes Flemish director and author Joachim Robbrecht, visual artists Noah Fischer and Jan Brokof, musicians Reinier van Houdt and Simon Lenski, among many others.
The discussion will be followed by a reception, sponsored by EUNIC.
Doors open at 6:00 pm; event starts at 6:30 pm.
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About EUNIC
EUNIC - European Union National Institutes for Culture - is Europe’s network of national cultural institutes, with 36 members from all 28 EU member states. EUNIC members join together in over 100 clusters worldwide to collaborate on common projects. EUNIC’s mission is to build trust and understanding between the peoples of Europe and the rest of the world through culture. The EUNIC Cluster Washington exists since 2012 and has 15 full and 2 associated members. Its vision is to act as European cultural ambassadors in the US, in particular the DC Metro area, promote Europe`s cultural diversity and provide space for transnational dialogue and exchange through cultural means.
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