Director Johan Simons returns this year with his farewell. He sees the humanistic, enlightened view of the world pain full out of the question. Art is Central to time feel issues and also to develop a vision for the future.
With the title “joy, beautiful spark of the gods” highlights this year’s Ruhrtriennale your focus of the utopias and visions: 700 artists from 30 countries from the age of 18. August your pieces at the “Festival of the arts” in the Ruhr area. The program includes the areas of music, music theater, drama, dance and Installation. It is the last program under the direction of the Dutchman Johan Simons, take over from 2018, the artistic Director of the Schauspielhaus Bochum. The 70-Year-old spoke at the presentation of the programme very sceptical about the state of the world: “Our understanding of ourselves gets cracks. Our European, humanist-enlightened view of the world is not the only conceivable. We are faced with aggressive counter-drafts.” The moral question is, “how long are we in this absurd luxury can life”. The joy will to the pain of the other. Against this Background, it is important to tell in the art to visionary way of the future, set to music, and to illustrate, said Simons.
A program on the pulse of the time
The experimental Festival will open with Claude Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” in the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum. In this “Opera of the Modern” go to real current experiences such as loneliness, fear and abandonment, explained Simons. With his last season the festival’s artistic Director, is bringing his three-year projects, such as the Emile-Zola-trilogy by Luk Perceval and the Dante-trilogy of the choreographer Richard Siegal graphs.
Johan Simons will build in his new job as a theater Director in Bochum is a multi-cultural Ensemble
22 of the 41 productions are world premieres. 25. August comes, the music theatre piece “No light” by the French composer Philippe Manoury, with a Text by the Austrian Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek on the stage. The piece from the year 2011, takes place in a world after a Super-Gau and settles with the manageability of the technology. Jellinek has supplemented 2017 with an Episode of the US presidents, Donald Trump, and his nuclear and climate policy.
The Ruhr triennial in 2017 should be a “Festival of the common experience” on which to “live and live together” talk, emphasized Simons. Be recorded 14 places in the whole Ruhr area. Including, among other things, the Blower house in the landscape Park Duisburg-Nord, the Zollern colliery in Dortmund and the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr are in addition to the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum.
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