Editorial
Kampnagel – Winter Programme
After all of the Christmas and New Year celebrations, Kampnagel is getting straight back to work in early January. As usual, we will be back with a fulminant mixture of theatre, dance, music and theory. January finally sees the return of Sasha Waltz with the Elbe Philharmonic, presenting HUNTS AND SHAPES with the Modern Ensemble in Hamburg, a work that continues to set the standard.
From the other side of the world, Jecko Siompo and his fantastic company are flying in from West-Papua to give us wild dance theatre, portraying both their jungle roots and their lives in the megacity of Jakarta. And the wait is over for fans of the unpredictable, as Deichkind’s first musical theatre production takes to the stage. A discourse operetta on the cult of celebrity and the power of production with guaranteed fun factor: DEICHKIND IN THE RUBBISH. Maria Magdalena Ludewig is starting the new year with two productions: STARS UNITED concerns many young people’s dream to become a star and brings it to the stage. In DREAMDOLLS, prostitutes give an insight into their lives at Uebel & Gefährlich. This production has been brought back from last year owing to popular demand. Rimini Protokoll offers us a new evening of theatre: In BLACK TIE Helgard Haug and
Daniel Wetzel take on the topic of adopted children and consider the black hole in their heritage. It makes for a touching evening – and not just for parents of adopted children. We then have documentary fiction with a work presentation by the Danish company Das Beckwerk, that stages the attempt of the individual to engage with the world in long term performances. And so that the discourse is not cut too short, we have the second instalment of the lecture series CULTURES OF METROPOLES, that deals with metropoles as the living spaces of the future. Furthermore, January will see us present the book PARCITYPATE: ART AND URBAN SPACE, published as a result of the 2007 Kampnagel symposium of the same name. And Armin Chodzinski is putting on a Lecture Performance on the phenomenon of the business hymn: WE CALL IT CORPORATE SONG.
Plus, of course, we have a great music programme ranging from the avant garde through to pop, kicked off by klub katarakt’s Festival for New Music. Meanwhile, the Baroque Lounge is in its sixth year, Jazz Today presents Ulita Knaus and Julian Lage and the NDR symphony orchestra invites you on a round trip of Latin America: NIGHT OF THE MAYAS. Here’s to cosy winter evenings at Kampnagel!
Yours, Amelie Deuflhard
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After all of the Christmas and New Year celebrations, Kampnagel is getting straight back to work in early January. As usual, we will be back with a fulminant mixture of theatre, dance, music and theory. January finally sees the return of Sasha Waltz with the Elbe Philharmonic, presenting HUNTS AND SHAPES with the Modern Ensemble in Hamburg, a work that continues to set the standard.
From the other side of the world, Jecko Siompo and his fantastic company are flying in from West-Papua to give us wild dance theatre, portraying both their jungle roots and their lives in the megacity of Jakarta. And the wait is over for fans of the unpredictable, as Deichkind’s first musical theatre production takes to the stage. A discourse operetta on the cult of celebrity and the power of production with guaranteed fun factor: DEICHKIND IN THE RUBBISH. Maria Magdalena Ludewig is starting the new year with two productions: STARS UNITED concerns many young people’s dream to become a star and brings it to the stage. In DREAMDOLLS, prostitutes give an insight into their lives at Uebel & Gefährlich. This production has been brought back from last year owing to popular demand. Rimini Protokoll offers us a new evening of theatre: In BLACK TIE Helgard Haug and
Daniel Wetzel take on the topic of adopted children and consider the black hole in their heritage. It makes for a touching evening – and not just for parents of adopted children. We then have documentary fiction with a work presentation by the Danish company Das Beckwerk, that stages the attempt of the individual to engage with the world in long term performances. And so that the discourse is not cut too short, we have the second instalment of the lecture series CULTURES OF METROPOLES, that deals with metropoles as the living spaces of the future. Furthermore, January will see us present the book PARCITYPATE: ART AND URBAN SPACE, published as a result of the 2007 Kampnagel symposium of the same name. And Armin Chodzinski is putting on a Lecture Performance on the phenomenon of the business hymn: WE CALL IT CORPORATE SONG.
Plus, of course, we have a great music programme ranging from the avant garde through to pop, kicked off by klub katarakt’s Festival for New Music. Meanwhile, the Baroque Lounge is in its sixth year, Jazz Today presents Ulita Knaus and Julian Lage and the NDR symphony orchestra invites you on a round trip of Latin America: NIGHT OF THE MAYAS. Here’s to cosy winter evenings at Kampnagel!
Yours, Amelie Deuflhard
