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Overview, May – July 2013

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Overview, May – July 2013

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May

Giovanni Battista Bracelli – Bizarrie di varie figure

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Unusual Symptoms (DE) / Samir Akika (FR/DE) / Johannes Fundermann (DE)
Young & Furious

Martin Nachbar (DE)
The Walk

Henrietta Horn (DE)
Rotlicht

Ben J. Riepe Kompanie (DE)
The WHITE VOID_SERIES

Tänzer des Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Kate McIntosh (NZ/BE)
Creation 2013

Meg Stuart (US/BE) / Damaged Goods (BE) / Münchner Kammerspiele (DE)
Built to Last

PACT Sommerfest 2013

Kate McIntosh (NZ/BE)
Worktable

Albert Quesada (BE)
Slow Sports

Jonathan Burrows (GB) / Matteo Fargion (IT/GB)
Counting To One Hundred & One Flute Note

Naoka Tanaka (JP)
Absolute Helligkeit

Pieter Ampe & Jakob Ampe / CAMPO (BE)
Jake & Pete’s Big Reconciliation Attempt for the Disputes from the Past

Extraschicht

Kurt Jooss Prize Award Ceremony 2013

Ben J. Riepe

SYMPOSIUM EPISODE 1

Symposium Episode 1

Symposium Episode 1

Symposium Episode 1

Symposium Episode 1

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Exchange I

Exchange I

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Upcoming events

FRI 12. OCTOBER 2012

FRI 12. November 2010 PHILIPPE QUESNE (FR)

FRI 13.11.09 ROMEO CASTELLUCCI (I)

SUN 02.11.08

STATION HOUSE OPERA (GB) Lose your mind

MON, 05.11.07

FORCED ENTERTAINMENT (GB) ›Some of The Ways: a Forced Entertainment workshop‹

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PACT Sommerfest 2013

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PACT Sommerfest 2013

FRI 12. November 2010
PHILIPPE QUESNE (FR)

FRI 13.11.09
ROMEO CASTELLUCCI (I)

STATION HOUSE OPERA (GB)
Lose your mind

FORCED ENTERTAINMENT (GB)
›Some of The Ways: a Forced Entertainment workshop‹

About us
- About us
  - Since it was founded in 2002, PACT Zollverein has clearly positioned itself as an initiator, catalyst and venue for seminal developments in the fields of dance, performance, theatre, media and fine arts.
- The House
  - Housed in the former shower facilities of the largest colliery in the Ruhr District, PACT Zollverein remains closely linked with the history of the building and the whole Zollverein complex.
- Background
  - Zollverein XII is the largest preserved colliery in the Ruhrgebiet and as such embraces the whole world of mining work, production and life.
- Team
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- Residencies
  - PACT Zollverein has been supporting residencies for the development of artistic projects and productions since 2002. The Residency Programme is open to professional artists from home and abroad who work in the areas of dance, performance, media arts or sound art. The recipients are offered a work space and local accommodation, and according to individual need, they can take advantage of various kinds of production support, such as dramaturgy, technical assistance, project management as well as press and publicity.
- Residencies Application
- Atelier
  - Since it was founded PACT Zollverein has, in the framework of the ATELIER series, offered emerging and established choreographers, dancers, performers, fine artists and musicians a chance to present their work to the general public during a shared evening length programme.
- Praxis
  - PACT Zollverein’s working field ›Praxis‹ invites artists, practitioners, teachers and theoreticians working in different disciplines to hold workshops and concentrated practical study periods in PACT’s studios.
- Choreographic Dialogues
  - Initiated by Thomas Lehmen and PACT Zollverein in 2009, the next edition of ›Choreographic Dialogues‹ in summer 2011 invites regional and international artists to participate in an intensive several day artistic exchange of practice.
- Contact Improvisation Jam
  - Contact Improvisation is a form of dance improvisation in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploring weight transfer, counter balance, momentum, gravity and suspension. It is about freeing the body from habitual movement patterns and concepts, trusting intuition and spontaneous interaction in movement and exploiting the rich possibilities of the present moment.
- Affiliated Artist 2013
  - Ben J. Riepe
    
    In 2013 PACT Zollverein is embarking on a new form of collaboration with a local North Rhine-Westphalia artist: Dusseldorf choreographer Ben J. Riepe and his 15 strong team will be holding regular research and development phases in PACT’s studios. During the festival tanz nrw 2013, the company will also present their current production ›The White Void_Series‹ at PACT Zollverein.
Platforms
- Platforms
  - PACT Zollverein’s research and development formats offer students, artists, researchers, practitioners and academics from different disciplines diverse chances to involve themselves in temporary working and learning communities and situations.
- IMPACT
  - IMPACT12 Undercover
    - SYMPOSIUM EPISODE 1
      
      FRI 12. OCTOBER 2012
  - IMPACT11 Me and my glocal
  - IMPACT10 Einfach da sein
    - Symposium Episode 1
      
      FRI 12. November 2010
      PHILIPPE QUESNE (FR)
  - IMPACT09 Von Cowboys, Helden und Spurensuchern
    - Symposium Episode 1
      
      FRI 13.11.09
      ROMEO CASTELLUCCI (I)
  - IMPACT08 How to belong to…
    - Symposium Episode 1
      
      SUN 02.11.08
      
      STATION HOUSE OPERA (GB)
      Lose your mind
      
      »One of the most important performance groups anywhere. Station House Opera possess that rarest of all things, a unique vision articulated through a genuinely theatrical language.« (Performance Magazine)
  - IMPACT07 Alles nur Tarnung – Nothing but disguise
    - Symposium Episode 1
      
      MON, 05.11.07
      
      FORCED ENTERTAINMENT (GB)
      ›Some of The Ways: a Forced Entertainment workshop‹
      
      »Forced Entertainment sind furchtlose Vertreter des subversiven Theaters.« (The Guardian)
  - IMPACT05 Tracing translation
    - IDEa
      
      IMPACT05 invited four outstanding artists: Xavier Le Roy (F/D), Antoni Muntadas (ES/US), Miranda Pennell & John Smith (GB) to jointly ›trace translations‹ in contemporary artistic production in the fields of dance, theatre, film, and New Media. Taking different approaches, the artists not only addressed subtle shifts in the relationship between public and private spheres but were also concerned with investigating artistic translation strategies between the fields of documentary and fiction.
  - IMPACT04 Strategies and scope of theatrical practices
    - IDEa
      
      IMPACT04 considers strategies, methodologies and tools used in theatre practices today. Taking part are three leading groups all of whose work explores the extents, confines and possibilities of theatre and theatrical spaces. BLAST THEORY (GB), BALLETT FRANKFURT (D) und RIMINI PROTOKOLL (D) offer an insight into their working practices, ideas and projects.
- Feldstärke
  - AGORA 2010 / Feldstärke International
    - Exchange I
  - Feldstärke International 2009
    - Exchange I
  - Feldstärke 2008
    - PARTICIPANTS
      
      50 students from the
  - Feldstärke 2007
    - PARTICIPANTS
      
      52 students from the
  - Feldstärke 2006
    - PARTICIPANTS
      
      50 students from the
  - Feldstärke 2005
    - PARTICIPANTS
      
      50 students from the
- Borderline
  - The second part of Borderline, a PACT research project that deals with the latest practice and concepts at the point where art and the economy connect, gives rise to a film installation entitled ›Choreography of Organising‹. In the film cultural scientist Eva Kiefer and scenographer Katleen Arthen go looking for the essential constants of dance – space, movement and rhythm – within industrial production methods employed by companies based in and around Essen. A book is to be published that documents the film installation as well as the symposium that took place last winter.
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- Tickets
  - Tickets can be booked through TuP by phone, fax or email and posted to you on receipt of payment (plus postal cover charge). Paid tickets can also be collected from the evening box office.
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    - GASTRONOMY
      
      Drinks and light meals are served in the foyer at PACT Zollverein before and after performances.
      
      The foyer opens one hour before performance begin (7.00pm)
      
      WHEEL CHAIR ACCESS
      
      The building is fully accessible to wheelchair users (Ground level entrance, elevator, disabled access WC). Please contact us in advance of your visit so we can plan assistance accordingly.
  - Hotels & Accommodation
    - Hotels
      
      Maritim-Gelsenkirchen
      
      Am Stadtgarten 1
      45879 Gelsenkirchen
      Fon +49 (0)209.176 0
      Fax +49 (0)209.176 20 91
      www.maritim.de
      Our recommended partner Hotel
      18 mins by tram number 107,
      10 mins by car
- Getting here
  - Getting here by train
    
    PACT Zollverein is situated in the north east of Essen at the Zeche Zollverein complex between the suburbs of Stoppenberg and Katernberg.
    Postal Address: PACT Zollverein | Bullmannaue 20a | 45327 Essen-Katernberg
    
    Getting here by train and tram
    from Essen central station (HBf): tram U-107, direction: Gelsenkirchen HBf / Hanielstraße
    to stop: Abzweig Katernberg (20 mins.)
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  - PACT Zollverein's two Stages, two Studios on the ground floor and the foyer are all periodically available to rent.
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Exhibition

One of only two editions of its kind worldwide, the fifty etching-engravings in the series ›Bizzarrie di divarie figure‹ (Oddities of various figures) by Giovanni Battista Bracelli from the celebrated Werner Nekes collection will be exhibited at PACT Zollverein during the first half of 2013. Dating from 1624 and dedicated to Don Pietro de Medici, the etchings make use of allegory and Emblem to allude to evident and hidden meaning. more ...

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Sat 04.05.13 - Sat 04.05.13

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Thu 02.05.13 20:00 h

Dance / Performance

›Young & Furious‹ marks the first collaboration between two unconventional theatre makers: The multi award-winning Algerian choreographer Samir Akika, who last appeared at PACT Zollverein in 2011 with his production ›Me and my Mum‹ and Münster director Johannes Fundermann, team up with eight young people from Belgium and Germany. Together they share their different perspectives on the society we live in. more ...

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Sat 04.05.13 17:00 h

Sat 04.05.13 18:30 h

Performance

In his most recent piece ›The Walk‹ dancer and choreographer Martin Nachbar, who last appeared at PACT Zollverein in 2011 with his production ›nach Hause‹, invites the audience to accompany him and his four collaborators on foot once around the block of the former pit head bath building which today houses PACT Zollverein. Walking, running, or moving backwards together as a crowd, the participants become protagonists in a performance which interacts with the striking backdrop of the Zollverein complex and in which the journey itself is the goal. more ...

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Sat 04.05.13 19:00 h

Performance

›ROTLICHT‹ is an artistic encounter between choreographer, dancer and long-term former director of the Folkwang Tanzstudio Company, Henrietta Horn, and composer, musician and publisher, Dorothée Hahne. Created in part during a residency at PACT Zollverein, the result of their collaboration is a powerfully immediate multi-part interdisciplinary performance combining choreography, music, live electronics and improvisation. more ...

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Sat 04.05.13 20:30 h

Dance / Performance

THE WHITE VOID_SERIES is not a performance in the conventional sense but rather a performative installation which invites the audience over a period of two hours to look and to listen, to linger or come and go as they please. more ...

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Thu 16.05.13 19:00 h

Fri 17.05.13 19:00 h

present their own works at PACT Zollverein

From its very beginning, PACT Zollverein has enjoyed close links to the Wuppertaler Tanztheater in a variety of contexts: Ensemble members have taught classes and workshops here and, in 2004 and again in 2008, PACT Zollverein was a partner venue to the International Dance Festival (ITF) under the direction of Pina Bausch. Now 12 dancers from the current ensemble are bringing their own first short choreographies to PACT’s stage. more ...

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Fri 24.05.13 20:00 h

Sat 25.05.13 20:00 h

Performance

Following on from ›Untried Untested‹ and ›Dark Matter‹ presented at PACT Zollverein in 2010 and 2012 respectively, Kate McIntosh returns this year with the premiere of her new creation ›All Ears‹ in which she sets up the stage as an improvised adhoc laboratory for a series of unusual recordings and acoustic experiments. Using everyday objects and materials, sounds are gathered, recorded and played back – the action of one part of the performance providing soundtrack, background or atmosphere for another. more ...

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Fri 07.06.13 20:00 h

Sat 08.06.13 20:00 h

Dance / Performance

In her latest work ›Built to Last‹ multiple award winning choreographer, Meg Stuart, confronts five performers with overwhelming works of classical and contemporary music which have virtually all significantly influenced the history of music in terms of both technique and content. more ...

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Fri 21.06.13 - Sun 23.06.13

PACT Zollverein invites you to its third Summer Festival in and around the former pithead baths at the Zollverein World Heritage site! more ...

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Fri 21.06.13 19:00 h

Sat 22.06.13 19:00 h

Sun 23.06.13 15:30 h

Live-Installation

How much creative potential lies in destruction? Does manipulation offer an insight into the true nature of things? In her live installation ›Worktable‹, open for several days in a series of rooms at PACT Zollverein, performer and choreographer Kate Mcintosh invites visitors to engage in a complicit task of dismantling and reassembling: Once inside you are given instructions, equipment and safety goggles so you can get to work - it's up to you to decide how things come apart, and how they come back together… more ...

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Fri 21.06.13 20:00 h

Performance

There is something in the pure physicality of sports that we find uniquely attractive and fascinating. From the Games of Ancient Greece, to the frenzied crowds of modern stadiums, sporting competition has produced a powerful form of communal rapture. In ›Slow Sports‹, choreographer Albert Quesada brings the total experience of sport into the theatre. He places the audience on a grandstand and provides five dancers with the rules of the game in an attempt to understand how sports are experienced, and why they hold such a fascination for us. more ...

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Sat 22.06.13 20:00 h

Performance in English

»(...) a challenging meditation on form and memory, but performed with such droll tension that it's also a deliciously entertaining kind of dance theatre.« Former Royal Ballet soloist Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion describe what they do as ›handmade and human- scale‹. They build with simple, non-spectacular elements but arrive often at a deceptive virtuosity, radiating delight even as it makes the audience think. more ...

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Sat 22.06.13 21:30 h

Sun 23.06.13 16:30 h

Installation / Performance

Following ›Die Scheinwerferin‹, presented at PACT Zollverein in 2011, Naoko Tanaka assumes a less prominent role in the second part of her Shadow Trilogy. The main protagonist in ›Absolute Helligkeit‹ is a single source of light which appears like an autonomous eye. In astronomy, the concept of ›absolute magnitude‹ (German ›Absolute Helligkeit‹, literally ‘absolute brightness’) is a measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness. more ...

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Sun 23.06.13 18:00 h

Performance in English

»a humorous, many-layered performance. The Ampes make use of the simplest of means to create an unforgettable performance about very recognisable mechanisms.« ›Jake & Pete’s Big Reconciliation Attempt for the Disputes from the Past‹ was created by brothers Pieter and Jakob Ampe under the mentorship of Alain Platel within the framework of CONNECT CONNECT project initiated by the international theatre festival SPIELART München. more ...

Sat 06.07.13 18:00 h

Setting the entire Metropolis Ruhr alight, Extraschicht (Night of Industrial Culture) is a special programme of cultural events put on once a year at former industrial landmarks. As one of 50 participating locations in 2013, PACT Zollverein plays host to the Dortmund indie band ›Sisterkingkong‹ and the funky rap crossover group ›Schneider Hip Hop Band‹. more ...

Sat 13.07.13 20:00 h

The Kurt Jooss Prize was established as a prize for young choreographers in 2001 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Kurt Jooss, creator of the anti-war dance drama, 'The Green Table', co-founder of the Folkwang Academy and founder of the Folkwang Dance Studio. Carrying an endowment of 6.000 Euro, the prize is sponsored by the Anna and Hermann Markard Foundation Amsterdam and the City of Essen and is awarded every three years. It is open to choreographers of all ages who are not yet fully established in the profession. There are no style restrictions. more ...

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Fri 24.05.13 20:00 h
Sat 25.05.13 20:00 h

Kate McIntosh (NZ/BE)
Creation 2013

Performance

Following on from ›Untried Untested‹ and ›Dark Matter‹ presented at PACT Zollverein in 2010 and 2012 respectively, Kate McIntosh returns this year with the premiere of her new creation ›All Ears‹ in which she sets up the stage as an improvised adhoc laboratory for a series of unusual recordings and acoustic experiments. Using everyday objects and materials, sounds are gathered, recorded and played back – the action of one part of the performance providing soundtrack, background or atmosphere for another. more ...

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Fri 24.05.13 20:00 h
Sat 25.05.13 20:00 h

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Fri 24.05.13 20:00 h
Sat 25.05.13 20:00 h

Kate McIntosh (NZ/BE)
Creation 2013

Performance

Following on from ›Untried Untested‹ and ›Dark Matter‹ presented at PACT Zollverein in 2010 and 2012 respectively, Kate McIntosh returns this year with the premiere of her new creation ›All Ears‹ in which she sets up the stage as an improvised adhoc laboratory for a series of unusual recordings and acoustic experiments. Using everyday objects and materials, sounds are gathered, recorded and played back – the action of one part of the performance providing soundtrack, background or atmosphere for another. more ...

Tickets for this event:
Fri 24.05.13 20:00 h
Sat 25.05.13 20:00 h