2011/12 season

Leverkusen/Berlin cultural axis

Info

Zoom image

Last year’s premiere of Troilus and Cressida, directed by Veit Schubert, which was a coproduction between Bayer Arts & Culture and the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch” Berlin, was enthusiastically received by the public and press, and also caught the attention of Rainer Wiertz, the director of the Neuss Shakespeare Festival. Following the Leverkusen premiere, he spontaneously invited the students to give a guest performance at his festival in Neuss.

This is precisely how the projects of the Leverkusen/Berlin cultural axis – in this case also linked to our stART project – are intended to work: a production supported by Bayer Arts & Culture spawns further opportunities for the young actors from Berlin to gain experience at other theatres or festivals.

The Labor Berlin (Berlin laboratory) art exhibitions staged jointly with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the premieres held as part of the Leverkusen/Berlin cultural axis are now an established part of Bayer Arts & Culture’s offer. Our work benefits tremendously from the high artistic standing of all our partners in Berlin. And at the same time the name of Bayer Arts & Culture gains greater exposure and is now well known in the city’s cultural scene. One of the many successful cooperation projects carried out so far was the performance by a specially formed choir from a Leverkusen primary school with roc berlin (Berlin radio orchestra and choirs) in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and over 1,000 other guests in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

The second Labor Berlin exhibition developed jointly with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt will open on September 4, 2011, a week before the festive opening of the 2011/12 season. It will feature works by Züli Aladağ and Reynold Reynolds, who each tackle the season’s theme in their own particular way. For example, prejudice as a specific form of “not knowing” is the subject of Züli Aladağ’s video installation The Others, in which he exposes the contradictory nature of everyday racism.

Milla Koistinen’s choreography No one escapes the spectacle of happiness, our third coproduction with the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch”, will be premiered in the Bayer Kulturhaus on November 14, 2011 and will then move to the Uferstudios, Berlin’s new centre for contemporary dance which opened just last year. These studios, as a focal point for production, information and training, were the obvious location for the new Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz (HZT, inter-university centre for dance), which Berlin’s cultural politicians are hoping will develop into a major venue for the international dance scene. What’s more, it is only a stone’s throw from the premises of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, opening up a whole range of new possibilities for cooperation with this important Bayer site.

Thanks to their outstanding quality, the coproductions with our partners in Berlin have become a regular feature in our programme and a cornerstone of Bayer Arts & Culture’s overall artistic concept, which is based on sustainability and internationality.

Bayer Arts & Culture’s partners in Berlin
http://www.roc-berlin.de/
http://www.hkw.de/
http://www.renaissance-theater.de/
http://www.gropiusbau.de/
http://www.hfs-berlin.de/

Events

» Archive 11/12

Could not find any events.