THE MTTW RESIDENCY PROGRAMME - funded by Creative Europe
2023 to 2025 the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN are part of an extensive EU cultural project in cooperation with cultural organisations from four other European countries. Together with proto produciia (UKR), WithEast (EN), Wroclaw Institute of Culture (POL) and Fundatia Gabriela Tudor (RU), the project "What's next? Safe cultural multi-spaces for the multidisciplinary reflection of (post)war and (post)crisis European identity" was launched.
"What's next?"is a joint venture to create temporary working spaces for artists, cultural managers, activists and citizens in the participating European countries to reflect on and deal with current social challenges. Common to all activities and residencies is the aim to enable coming together, reflecting and collaborating in collective authorship processes.
As a festival for contemporary music theatre formats, MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN has a lively interest in the creation, development and commissioning of new works. The creation of such is preceded by a process of research and experimentation that takes time and focus. Artistic energy is the central force in this process, which is not primarily oriented towards delivery and performance dates.
Through a curated approach to the selection of participants for the residencies in Vienna, MTTW provides international artists with safe and undisturbed space to work on multidisciplinary music theatre projects without expectation of results. It is also important to us to give the artists the opportunity during their residency to gain an insight into the local contemporary music theatre scene and to develop a relevant artistic exchange with it in order to strengthen their networks in the long term and sustainably.
"What's next?" Residency Showings take place within the framework of the AMD 2024 instead.
📅 Friday, 27 September, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
📍Studio 1, Impulstanz-Studios, Rennweg 79-81, 1030 Vienna
The both music theatre collectives selected in 2024 develop their current projects on the subject of sustainability and ecology for premieres in 2025 (Plankton in Zurich, Turtle in Salzburg)
Plankton
direction and music: Léo Collin
Concept, direction and stage design: Kapitolina Tsvetkova
This music theatre performance explores the relationship between humans and nature, isolation and globalisation as well as the real and the imaginary. The starting point is anthropological studies by Nastassja Martin and Charles Stepanoff and behavioral patterns of plankton that produce bioluminescent light to protect themselves from predators.
Oblivia – Turn Turtle Turn 2 - the reality bang
Concept, devising, dramaturgy, texts: Oblivia
On stage, performance, voice and song: Timo Fredriksson (FI), Anna-Maija Terävä (D), Annika Tudeer (FI), Juha Valkeapää (FI). Percussion: Nagisa Shibata (JP/F))
Composer, live electronic: Yiran Zhao (CN/DE)
Outside eye: Alice Ferl (DE)
Light design, video design: Meri Ekola (B)
Costume design: Tua Helve (FI)
Production: Oblivia / Jenny Nordlund. Communication: Nassrah Denif (D)
In Turn Turtle Turn 2 - the reality bang, we look at the emotional landscapes behind today's precarious situation of climate change and political backlash. Focus is on emotions like loss, nostalgia, and catastrophe euphoria. Oblivia thinks that these emotions are crucial to understand in order for change for the better to happen. The performance explores with humour and lightness the effects of a change of the Anthropocene worldview that is based on the human perspective and looks at how it could be dissolved and reinterpreted.
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2 residencies in June
Angela Braun (performance), Charlotta Hench (design), Gina-Lisa Maiwald (acting), Julia Lwowski
(direction), Max Murray (tuba & composition), Roman Lemberg (piano & music direction)
Morten Schmidt, Mai Siedentopp
Residency period: 12 - 19 June 2023 in Vienna, Austria
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