EXTENDED COOPERATION Vol. II
There was no text. There was no topic. We didn’t know each other. But it is time to take risks and trust that from coming together and from the encounter something will grow. It is time to put aside differences and self-distinctions and trust that we will find commonalities. Let’s take the risk!
At Ballhaus Naunynstraße, around forty theater-makers of color and Black artists gathered to think about theater, experiment, and produce in two groups. Contributors such as director, author, and lecturer Adewale Teodros Adebisi, lighting designer Emilio Cordero Checa, sound designer Sky Deep, screenwriter, director, and actor Toks Körner, artist, architect, set and costume designer Jaq Lisboa, opera singer, actor, and director Nino Sandow, stage and costume designer Sarah Seini, and dramaturg Jasco Viefhues shared their knowledge. Texts were written, staging images dreamed, acting constellations tested, many things discarded, new things attempted, and now: Showing! We share with the audience what we have!
For the second time, as there was already a first successful workshop showing in May, of Extended Cooperation Vol. I. Because this workshop is - at a time when societal hierarchies and exclusions are being politically pursued and implemented with new violence, a necessity: It is important to come together and collaboratively design, work, shape, and find our own rhythms for the bodies, the speech, and self-assertion.
In 2023, Ballhaus Naunynstraße was honored with the main prize of the Federal Theater Award: As the birthplace of post-migrant theater and - so the jury's reasoning - because Ballhaus Naunynstraße, as a "singular framework," enables new practices of theater making. The prize money was used for the implementation of this workshop, of Extended Cooperation Vol. I and Vol. II.
A production by Kultursprünge in Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. Realized with funds from the THEATERPREIS DES BUNDES. With kind support from Naunynritze.
Photo: Zé de Paiva
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