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Festival Stories

Behind the Scenes

  • A person stands on a staircase in a dark room while being filmed and illuminated by several cameras and lights.

    Behind the scenes of “Deutscher Herbst”

  • Ivo Van Hove at the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum

    Ivo Van Hove's favorite David Bowie songs

    • Rebel Rebel
  • Marina Abramović sits motionless at a table facing a visitor while an audience watches in the museum. The performance “The Artist Is Present” is based on silent encounter and presence.

    The Art of Walking Through Walls

    • Balkan Erotic Epic
  • The women’s choir Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares lined up on stage in front of an applauding audience.

    Wind, Electricity and Song

    The concert programme at Turbinenhalle Bochum

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Impressions

  • On a stage with red and grey wall surfaces, a person stands in the foreground with arms outstretched. Several chairs are arranged in the space, with focused lighting illuminating the scene.

    “How do you end a tragedy?”

    • Europa

  • Graphic Novel

    • Waste Me
  • A person sits at a table speaking into a smartphone mounted on a tripod, hands raised. Behind them, a large-scale video projection shows the same person.

    Europa – a parable of our time

    Notes from Warsaw

  • Stage scene with several performers among large piles of clothing, household items, and mattresses; in the foreground, a person wearing a costume made of a bundle of stuffed animals.

    Dystopia in your shopping cart

    Visiting the performance “Waste Me”

  • Scene from the participatory performance UNIVERS: Children explore the space beneath floating illuminated objects as performers guide movement and sound.

    It’s just a tiny step from Earth to the universe

    Visiting the performance “UNIVERS” in London

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Interview

  • The three lead actors in the production Rebel Rebel, together with artistic director Ivo Van Hove.

    “We can create ourselves”

    • Rebel Rebel
  • Portrait of Lisaboa Houbrechts sitting at a river and looking into the camera.

    Siddhartha Reimagined

    Interview with Lisaboa Houbrechts

    • SIDDHARTHA
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Video

  • Joyce DiDonato is sitting at a desk in a white dress, with her back to the camera.

    They shut me up in Prose

    from „Emily – No Prisoner Be“

  • Anna Schöttl talking to Marina Abramović

    Interview with Anna Schöttl

    On the creation of the set design for Balkan Erotic Epic

    • Balkan Erotic Epic
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Essay

  • A black-and-white photograph of Joyce DiDonato, surrounded by the three musicians from Time for Three, who are playing their string instruments.

    Emily Dickinson’s poetry becomes sound

    • Emily - No Prisoner Be
  • Black and white photography of three young soldiders

    LISTENING AGAINST OBLIVION

    • Erased Music
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