poesiefestival berlin: three D poetry combines words, music and dance
28.03.2017
Music and contemporary dance meet poetry: the new three D poetry format brings more than forty artists together who work with dance, music and poetry, to develop concert performances, choreographies and mini operas together. These include the production ‘n/achtfüssig’ (n/e/ight-footed) by writer Herta Müller, composer Hubert Machnik and choreographer Anna Huber. The première of three D poetry will be on 17 June 2017 at the 18th poesiefestival berlin: Europe_ Fata Morgana in the Academy of Arts in Hanseatenweg. There will be a total of twelve productions of three-dimensional poetry in Berlin in 2017 and 2018.
Artists working with dance and music have chosen poets from around the world living in Berlin to work with them on the cross-genre three D poetry. Poetry has always inspired artists in other media to enter into an aesthetic dialogue with it. One famous example is Franz Schubert, who set poems by Wilhelm Müller to music in the ‘Winter Journey’.
In three D poetry the artists will be sounding out artistic positions on the topic of exile, meaning geographical exile as well as alienation vis-à-vis a social environment, and acquaintances, even friends.
Première of three D poetry at the 18th poesiefestival berlin
Saturday, 17 June, 8 pm
Repeat: Sunday, 18 June, 3 pm, followed by a discussion with the artists Daniel Falb, Maya M. Caroll and Hubert Machnik
Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
‘Ingesture’ by Maya M. Carroll, dance (ISR), Roy Carroll, music (IRE), Christian Hawkey, poetry (USA).
‘n/achtfüssig’ by Anna Huber, dance (CHE), Hubert Machnik, music (DEU), Herta Müller, poetry (ROU/ DEU).
‘Schulter von α und anderen, fernen Ländern’ (Shoulders of α and other distant countries) by Shang-Chi Sun, dance (TWN), Markus Pesonen, music (FIN), Daniel Falb, poetry (DEU) and featuring the KNM Quartett (DEU).
18th poesiefestival berlin: Europe_ Fata Morgana
16-24 June 2017
Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
The poesiefestival berlin is a project by the Haus für Poesie in co-operation with the Academy of Arts and gratefully acknowledges the support of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
The project three D poetry will be creating a space for a continuous dialogue between the three genres of words, music and dance. In 2017 and 2018 twelve new productions will be created which will be performed in the Academy of Arts and in the Uferstudios Berlin. The project has been initiated by the Haus für Poesie in close co-operation with the Ensemble KNM Berlin, the Ensemble KomboÏ, dance-aarts-cie. and the Uferstudios Berlin, curated by Anja Weber (dance) and Thomas Bruns (music). Project leader is Silvia Bohner.
Poets at three D poetry (not yet finalised): Herta Müller (ROU/DEU), Anne Duden (DEU), Michael Lentz (DEU), Érica Zíngano (ITA/BRA), Kinga Tóth (HUN), Christian Hawkey (USA), Daniel Falb (DEU)
Composers at three D poetry: Ana Maria Rodriguez (ARG), Wojtek Blecharz (POL), Hubert Machnik (DEU), Martin Hiendl (DEU), Donna Maya (DEU), Hui-Chun Lin (TWN), TianRotteveel (NLD), Gabriel Santander (ESP), Stratofyzika/Lenka Kocisova (CZE), Eiko Tsukamoto (JPN), Juan Felipe Waller (MEX/NLD), Roy Carroll (IRE), Markus Pesonen (FIN)
Choreographers/dancers at three D poetry: Anna Huber (CHE), Jagna Anderson (POL), Liz Erber (USA), Katharina Greimel (AUT), Billie Hanne (BEL), Jenny Haack (DEU), Annapaola Leso (ITA), Ana Laura Lozza (ARG), Lee Meir (ISR), Tabea Xenia Magyar (CHE), Tomi Paasonen (FIN), Sven Seeger (DEU), Stratofyzika/Hen Lovely Bird (USA), Julian Weber (DEU), Anja Weber (DEU), Maya M. Carroll (ISR), Shang-Chi Sun (TWN)
Renowned ensembles, musicians and singers including the Ensemble KNM Berlin, the KNM Quartett, the Ensemble KomboÏ, Anna Clementi and Irene Kurka have been engaged for the realisation of the productions.
three D poetry is funded with financial support from the Land Berlin, Senate Administration for Culture and Europe.