Berlin Volksbühne: Chris Dercon presents five-member team of artists for … – Augsburger Allgemeine

The new head of the Berlin Volksbühne presents itself for the first time. Chris Dercon was in the Red City Hall known, with whom he will work together in the future.

Chris Dercon, designated director of the Berlin Volksbühne, gets a five-member international team of artists at the theater. These include the French dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz, film director Romuald Karmakar (“The Deathmaker”) and filmmaker and media scientist Alexander Kluge. Also present: The German theater director Susanne Kennedy and the Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen. This was announced by Dercon and Berlin’s mayor and Culture Senator Michael Müller (SPD) said on Friday.

The Belgian Culture Manager Dercon, currently head of London’s Tate Modern museum, Frank Castorf will replace the Volksbühne boss in summer 2017. As program director Dercon convened the dramaturge Marietta Piek Brock. The theater will continue to be a house with solid ensemble productions and repertoire, Dercon said. “The Volksbühne will be no different, they will continue to evolve,” he announced.

 

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Berliner Volksbühne gets offshoot – and a digital stage

But getting the theater, “volksbühne berlin” called Dercon in a written concept programmatically several offshoots: Several weeks to months in the year should be recorded in a hangar Tempelhof disused airport. The previous Volksbühne Venue Prater in Prenzlauer Berg is maintained. Partner of the new interdisciplinary working people’s theaters teams will be the Babylon cinema. In addition, there will be a new “digital platform”, called Terminal Plus. Performing artists to record their productions created for this purpose in the studio theater of the Volksbühne and send live.

In recent months, he got a “crash course in opinions”, Dercon said, alluding to the fierce skepticism that was shown him as a cultural manager of many theater-makers, as the first word spread about his appointment. The Volksbühne should in future “theater, dance, performance, concert, theater, visual arts and cultures of the Digital” gather under one roof at the will of Dercon. AZ / dpa

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