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Can we talk about this?
Currently the Britain located DV8 Physical Theater is on tour with their latest piece ‘Can we talk about this?’. It is a dance piece, which builds heavily on the actual theme of Islamophobia with specific accentuation on the British situation and thus luckily also recruits its dancers from a multicultural background. For me personally …
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small theater-great result: merlin or the wasteland
There is not that much I find about Tankred Dorst’s Merlin or the Wasteland in English sources, and I have to admit that I myself wasn’t aware of this work, which now caught me and my attention, as a piece itself and as the specific piece I saw enacted by nine young students at …
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… so worth to see: NELISIWE XABA
In the context of the ‘Border Border Express’ event at the HAU in Berlin I was so lucky to see two fantastic pieces by Nelisiwe Xaba with 2 pieces: They look at me and that’s all they think & Sarkozy Says ‘Non’ To The Venus
Both pieces refer to the story of Sara Baartman, ...
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The Offside Rules
‘The Offside Rules’ is the last production form the dancegroup around Constanza Macras, which was commissioned by the Goethe Institut for the 2010 football World Cup. In this coproduction of the Goethe-Institut South Africa, the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and Constanza Macras/Dorky Park, three performers from Macras’ company teamed up with dancers from Johannesburg, who …
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taxi to the dark side
arte TV takes its 20th birthday to show a special program, which also includes re-airings of important films or series of the last years. Tonight the main program (will be repeated twice in november) was ‘Taxi to the Darkside’ by Alex Gibney, a disturbing and important film, exploring the torture methods the world’s biggest …
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Aghet – Demons of the Past
Sometimes it might seem that this blog is side-stepping, even to myself, but then I recall the ‘gap’ is also always been about the gap in general and any meaning and as well especially about media.
One could now wonder why especially Germany produced and aired an ambitious TV-documentary about the Armenian genocide. Though seeing …
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‘an eye for an eye ….’
.. but may be I’ll take two – hope you don’t mind ….
.... that at least is the impression I got, when I finally had the chance to see Avi Mograbi’s documentary Z32. Nevertheless by the filmmaker’s doubts, which have been mixed into the film as questioning songs, it all together might – ...