{"id":454,"date":"2004-04-29T22:05:13","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T22:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heikealbrecht.net\/ha\/?p=454"},"modified":"2021-12-15T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:46:12","slug":"deutsch-westend-04-maybe-the-sky-is-green-and-we-are-just-colorblind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heikealbrecht.net\/ha\/2004\/04\/29\/deutsch-westend-04-maybe-the-sky-is-green-and-we-are-just-colorblind\/","title":{"rendered":"Westend 04 Maybe the sky is green and we are just colourblind"},"content":{"rendered":"

29.4. – 9.5.2004<\/strong>
\nLeipzig – Plagwitz, LOFFT, Schaub\u00fchne Lindenfels<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2004, the festival “Westend” took place for the second time, a collaboration between the venues LOFFT and Schaub\u00fchne Lindenfels, both located in the western districts of Leipzig. “Westend 04” was curated as a dense platform for numerous forms of performing arts in order to open up the concept of dance with a view to art history and to understand the work on a dance festival also as a socio-political debate. In addition to the theatres, the festival also included the structurally, socially and aesthetically difficult neighbourhood of Leipzig’s Westend: Plagwitz – Lindenau. Here, theatre took place as a process that thematised the surroundings and reanimated the decayed urbanity through artistic approaches.<\/p>\n

With the eleven invited productions, “Westend 04” was an encounter of the Leipzig dance scene around Heike Hennig and Steffen Fuchs with a dance discourse, as can be experienced and discussed in the work of Marten Spangberg, Oleg Solimenko or the frankfurter k\u00fcche (leipzig). In addition, an extensive programme of site-specific work, video installations and discussions, as well as a dance film series and workshops, have been organised. A special focus was the film retrospective of the choreographer and experimental filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Within this presentation, the German premiere of the documentation of Yvonne Rainer’s work “TRIO A” from 1978 was made possible in cooperation with the Tanzarchiv Leipzig. With the new networking of the Institute for Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig, the Tanzarchiv Leipzig e. V. and the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts, the festival was able to correspond to a discursive anchoring and place the “Westend 04” initiative in the larger context of contemporary performance practices and structures of cultural work.<\/p>\n

With the quote Maybe the sky is green and we are just colourblind<\/em>, the festival referred to the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Johan Grimonprez, one of the most important films that exposes the spectacular in our disaster culture.
\n“Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y” mixes photographic, electronic and digital images and interlocks reportage with pieces from science fiction films, existing footage and reconstructed scenes shot by the artist himself. The fiction makes it possible for heterogeneous elements to flow into this montage, so that critical perspectives mix with private stories. This work, which denounces the media spectacle, attempts to expose the influence of images on our feelings, our knowledge and our memory. (Paul Sztulman, short guide to documenta X)<\/p>\n

Artists
\nJim Avignon (Berlin) Concert
\nPhilipp Bu\u00dfmann (Frankfurt\/M.) NEGATION (AnAntigone8x8)<\/em>
\nCocoonDance (Bonn) Silent running<\/em>
\nCook\u00e9 \/ L.E. Alive \/ Corina Ries u.a. (Leipzig) MOVE IT YOUR WAY!
\nTom Fletcher (Berlin) I doubble in tap<\/em>
\nfrankfurter k\u00fcche (Leipzig) directory
\nSteffen Fuchs (Leipzig) Serail<\/em>
\nHeike Hennig (Leipzig) Esther Quartett<\/em>
\nDaniel Hofmann (Leipzig) Animal Motion<\/em>
\nKosit Juntaratip (Bangkok) When Kosit went to the death<\/em>
\nSveinn Fannar Johannsson (Rekjavik) L.U.N. – The movie<\/em>
\nSilke Koch (Leipzig) Coming soon<\/em>
\nSven Mundt (Berlin) Faces LE<\/em>
\nHenriette Pedersen (Oslo) Is the queen getting bigger?<\/em>
\nFriederike Plafki (Berlin) Cooling cow genesis<\/em>
\nBenny Nemrofsky Ramsay (Toronto) I`m a boy band | Life to tell<\/em>
\nMarkus Schinwald \/ Oleg Soulimenko (Vienna) A Stage Matrix<\/em>
\nM\u00e5rten Sp\u00e5ngberg (Stockholm) Powered by Emotions<\/em>
\nStorm (Berlin) HIP HOP Workshop
\nPaula E. Paul \/ Ralf Krause \/ Petra Bogdahn (Potsdam\/Berlin) Planta del pie<\/em>
\nMartine Pisani (Paris) sans<\/em>
\nLynn Pook (Strasbourg) A fleur de peau<\/em>
\nMargaret Tedesco (San Francisco) I want you to have my support<\/em>
\nHenry Wilt \/ Antonia Beahr (Berlin) Un apr\u00e9s-midi #6<\/em> for 4 performers – Leipzig version
\nFilm and discussion forum
\nYvonne Rainer – Film Works Show. Introduction Barbara B\u00fcscher (Leipzig\/Cologne) First Person Political<\/em>
\nJohan Grimonprez Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.<\/em> Introduction Dieter Daniels (HGB Leipzig)
\nPhilipp Bu\u00dfmann (Frankfurt\/M.) NEGATION (AnAntigone8x8) Introduction G\u00fcnter Heeg, Veronika Darian (Theatre Studies Leipzig)
\nFranz Anton Cramer (Dance Archive Leipzig) Structures in Dance Discussion with Ulrike Melzwig (Dramaturg Berlin), Petra Roggel (Kaaitheater Brussels), Robert Schubert Leipziger Tanztheater), Christoph Winkler (Choreographer Berlin)
\nTeam
\nArtistic director \/ production budget Heike Albrecht
\nManagement Susanne Beyer, Martin Heering
\nProduction Management Barbara Greiner
\nAssistance Frauke Niemann
\nCollaboration Film Programme Michael Ludwig
\nPress Christine Richter
\nTechnical Direction Andrej Schwabe
\nGraphics Gabriele Altevers
\nWestend 04 \u00a9 Gabi Altevers
\nWestend 04 Programme \u00a9 Gabi Altevers<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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