The 34th Potsdam National Competition of German-speaking Acting Students ended on June 25 with the selection of the prize winners. The "Ensemble Prize Austria" in the amount of 10,000 euros went to the 4th year acting class of the Thomas Bernhard Institute and their production of "Tartuffe".
The author and musician PeterLicht has taken on Molière's scandalous play from 1664, "atomised and pulverised" it to make it readable in its satirical quality for our present. Director Nele Rosetz works out a common reading of the material with drama students. How does a group shape the behaviour of individuals? And what actually happens when an established context is shaken up by the emergence of a new character?
More than 330 years after the premiere of the only complete opera by Henry Purcell, the French composer Henry Fourès composes a musical setting for Dido and Aeneas and calls it Elissa. A conversation with Rector Elisabeth Gutjahr, who wrote the libretto for it.
The production of an "animal trilogy" including Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals" is already the second major cooperation between the Mozarteum University and the Marionette Theatre. On the violin: Benjamin Schmid.
The young officers Ferrando and Guilelmo* do not want to let their fatherly friend Don Alfonso get away with it - after all, he doubts the fidelity of their fiancée! But instead of the demanded duel, they accept his proposal of a wager and thus become handmaidens in the work of destroying their love relationships.
Open Call 2023: "Circle of life - How can we get into the circle of life again? Kunsthilfe Salzburg encourages young artists up to 30 years of age with their main residence in Austria to deal with the most essential issues of our time: Climate, nature and the environment combined with the values of being human.
Elfriede Jelinek's "Am Königsweg" is an examination of right-wing populism, Donald Trump's disastrous political practice and the helplessness of a society that cannot find an answer to the explosive spread of contempt for democracy and violence.
Pleasure Space is a tactile installation and theatrical play on sexuality education. Anna Szepes' master project in MA Applied Theatre aims to create safe and playful performative spaces for intergenerational exchange and creative knowledge production around sexuality. In Pleasure Space we use research, interviews, play design, writing, somatic exercises and sound to realise a correspondence between adults and teenagers that is now open to you.
On January 20 and 21, the Thomas Bernhard Institute, in cooperation with the Department of Scenography of the Mozarteum University, presented Philoktet by Heiner Müller, Gaia in a version by Till Ernecke and The Bacchae by Euripides, three directorial works on the theme of classical music at the Theater im KunstQuartier.
Could Dionysus be a queer trans* deity? What if their companions simply do not conform to any norm and are not mad at all? Cat Jugravu's performance DIONYSOS. MADNESS POURS UPON MY LOVELY FACE invites us to reinterpret the myth as a manifesto for otherness and queerness. With the Maenads - the dissident entourage of Dyonisos - the audience tries to approach a life without the norm in ritual, dance and rave.
X participants, X directors on X dates with X theater ideas, people interested in theater, theater enthusiasts, theater novices meet students of the Applied Theatre - artistic theater practice & society program. Everyone tries out together, some in playing, others in directing.
A tour through eight temporary individual works by MA Applied Theatre students on the theme of theatricality and the theatricalization of places and spaces.
Inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan and his approaches of appropriation and transformation, nine artistic-explorative teams of two from the Mozarteum University were on the road in South Africa, the US, Mexico, Europe and Latin America during the first half of 2022. The results are nine art projects that will be premiered on October 14 and 15 as part of Jazz & The City, accompanied by a symposium "Inspired by ... commemorating 60 Years of Bob Dylan.".
With the Moz-Art-Zone, the Mozarteum University will offer an expanded music and art education program starting in the winter semester of 2022/23 with an interdisciplinary offering that aims to awaken enthusiasm and interest in students and opens the doors of the university wide for this purpose.
How do we change perspectives when things and people become strangers to us? The performance OUBLIEZ - WHO(N) WE FORGET focuses on the 'in-between spaces' where communication takes place - between those affected, care staff and relatives - and tries to capture what happens to people who "disappear without being lost".
How much time do we give life in life? Pelican or raven? How much role modeling can we tolerate? Where do we put our anger? Do you wash your hands often enough? And do you like to eat bread? Yes, and who actually asks mum? Lievito Madre invites you to take time to listen, ask yourself questions and take a closer look at the roles of mothers.
Jonas Baur, Master's student Applied Theatre invites all men (all bodies, queer-friendly, trans* inclusive) to come together to seek and find answers to what it can mean to make masculinity diverse and caring. The invitation is open to anyone who is curious, interested in sharing about gender roles, wants to see themselves as men in their own way, or wants to prevent discrimination.
At the Federal Competition of German-Speaking Acting Students 2022, held in Ludwigsburg from June 19 to 25, 2022, the 4th year acting class was able to bring an ensemble prize back to Salzburg for the production ¡Los Bernarrrdá's!.
The Applied Theatre project digs for stories hidden in the Rainberg. By overlaying the different uses in different periods of time, contrasts but also commonalities become visible: "Dance until we die" examines how temporary communities function, according to which criteria they are created, which rules they are subject to.
