Retrospect – Kids Days

During PACT's ›KIDS DAYS‹ the whole house transformed into a swirling playground for our youngest visitors and their families: Rotating circles, colorful lights, music, and juggling combined to create a diverse program that evoked both intense emotions and moments of serenity.

Retrospective: Peer to Peer – A Month of Media Art in NRW

Marco Donnarumma on ›I Am Your Body‹

»Since being diagnosed, ten years ago, with a degenerative condition that is making me increasingly deaf, I've been reflecting intensively on the inescapable multiplicity of one's perception, embodiment, identity. I pondered, of course, also about how my artistic work could respond to such a earthly, factual matter as a drastic bodily change and the inevitability of everything that comes with it.«

Ends of Worlds

How can we say something about the future through the lens of the past? Michiel
Vandevelde examines the recent history of western modern and contemporary dance,
from Isadora Duncan to Anna Halprin. Their dances and choreographies are read as
codes and signs from the past that infiltrate the future. Which ideological remains are
reflected through these dances? What if the traces of these dances are to survive
humankind as we know it? How would they be interpreted in the future?

Tim Etchells im Interview zu ›Under Bright Light‹

Forced Entertainment’s ›Under Bright Light‹ is a Sisyphean slapstick, a warehouse somewhere in a cartoon hell, a brash video game on a broken loop. In conversation with PACT, Tim Etchells talks about the rocky road leading up to the creation of the piece.

Mette Ingvartsen on ›The Dancing Public‹

Evoking collective moments of dancing manias from the past, Mette Ingvartsen explores movement ecstasy within a social gathering in the aftermath of a pandemic. Her solo explodes the solitary confinement of 2020 with an intense mixture of unstoppable movements, incessant music and high-paced rhythms of words and chanting. A dance feast, a concert of spoken word poetry or a physical frenzy until exhaustion, this shape-shifting piece incites questions: Can a dance hijack and reshuffle the social corpus of the public? What is the need for excess and movement we might feel in our bodies today? Are we ready to be high on life again?

Meg Stuart on the making of her piece ›CASCADE‹

In August 2020, Meg Stuart was working at PACT on her new creation ›CASCADE‹ which would have premiered at the Ruhrtriennale 2020. In September 21 it can be seen on stage at PACT as part of the Ruhrtriennale 2021.

KateMcIntosh on ›To Speak Light Pours Out‹

Starting from the bodily pleasure of beats and the energy of voices, ›To Speak Light Pours Out‹ is a collaboration between several composers, writers and performers to create a space that vibrates with anger, celebration and joy and calls out to the lust for transformation, resistance, and new shapes of being. 

fieldworks portrait - Documentary

fieldworks portrait (documentary) is a film by Belgian film maker Klaas Boelen. It was shot during the preparations and happenings of fieldworks portrait, a three-day performative exhibition devoted to the work of Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki that was held at PACT in June 2018.

Michiel Vandevelde: ›Ends of Worlds‹

In his work ›Ends of Worlds‹, which Vandevelde would have shown at PACT in May, the choreographer looks into a distant and yet uncomfortably near future. For #PACTconnected, he has now made a video in which he revisits the epilogue of the performance.

›Ends of Worlds‹ takes place in the year 2300. The date marks year zero for reproduced homo sapiens informed by the algorithmic memories and patterns of the past. Their dances and choreographies bring to mind fragments that have survived the past - moments of historical catastrophes, collective traumas as well as the legacies of choreographers from the recent history of western modern and contemporary dance

Flora Détraz: On ›Muyte Maker‹

In her video, choreographer Flora Détraz offers us a closer, more intimate insight into her work ›Muyte Maker‹, which she would have presented at PACT during our Spring Festival 2020: She shares her influences and sketches, designs for both the choreography and singing, as well as models in art history that inspired her production’s fulminant setting. 

Alexandra Bachzetsis: Chasing a Ghost

›Chasing a Ghost‹, the latest work by artist and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis, questions the choreographic archetype of the duet in a succession of doubles und doublings of bodies, sounds, spaces and images staged in a spectrum of violence and desire. The performance was due to celebrate its German premiere on the 03.04. at PACT. In the meantime, Alexandra has put together a short film featuring footage from the world premiere of ›Chasing a Ghost‹ at the Art Institute of Chicago.