Sustainable collaboration and resilience in the independent performing arts
With Hannah Saar and representatives of the independent performing arts community
As part of the RODEO Festival 2024
"Practice what you preach" is the major goal of many independent performing artists. In their work, they often negotiate possible models of a future society. And with every new production, there is another opportunity to negotiate what is being negotiated on stage as a team. This is not only about new, better forms of presentation, but also about collaboration. It is not always easy to create a good, inclusive and sustainable workflow and an appreciative working atmosphere under precarious conditions and with changing teams. This is exactly what we will take time for on this workshop day and address the question together: "How do we want to work together?". To this end, we have invited Hannah Saar, dramaturge and systemic coach, to provide input and various representatives of the independent performing arts community will then share their experiences and approaches with us.
Hannah Saar - A systemic view of theatre practice
in German spoken language
Hannah Saar has worked as a freelance artistic production manager at HAU Hebbel am Ufer and in the independent theatre scene in Munich, among others with Alexander Giesche, Damian Rebgetz, Anta-Helena Recke, HAUPTAKTION, The Agency. Since 2018, she has been working as a permanent dramaturge at the Stadttheater, first at the Oberhausen Theatre, then at Schauspiel Dortmund and since the 2024/25 season at the Münchner Kammerspiele, where she will take over the artistic direction of the Werk*raum from this season. She co-founded the INITIATIVE FOR SOLIDARITY IN THEATRE and is committed to a theatre space free of fear. In her keynote speech, Hannah Saar takes a systemic look at theatre practice and shares aha-insights from her training in systemic coaching and change management at the INEKO Institute at the University of Cologne. How can processes be designed productively, how can conflicts be dealt with in an appreciative way?
After Hannah Saar's input, the group will split into three small groups between 2 and 4 pm. The following three workshops are available:
Playground - Artist Run Spaces
in English spoken language
What are the characteristics and potentials of an artist-run space? How can artistic research lead to practices and discourses, and how do we want to communicate them? The Playground Team will present some of their tools for this process and show how they develop trainings, scores and formats. It is about finding translations, creating different contexts and platforms for sharing and exchange, practising welcoming and creating connections.
www.playground-nomadicground.com
Dream Machine Inc - working collectively
in German spoken language
Flour, water, salt, oil - how does collective working work? How can different ingredients be turned into a delicious pasta dish?
The theatre collective Traummaschine Inc. has no ready-made answers, but has been asking itself for more than a decade how this can be done.
In the workshop, we all make enchantingly colourful noodles together and get talking: about creative and organisational decision-making processes, about communication and trust, taste and content, about gossip and fun.
At the end, we eat it all together. Mjam!
Callie Arnold - Embodying Empowerment
in English spoken language
Since 2020, Callie Arnold has been exploring practices of empowerment and disengagement from racialisation in the choreographic process. In her workshop she aims to provide inspiration and empowerment for:
- how nature and embodiment support practices of empowerment, specifically the decoupling of structures and processes of racialisation
- a spectrum of existing and evolving anti-racism and empowerment approaches
- what long-term exchange and collaboration can feel like and how they enrich the work.
http://callie-arnold.squarespace.com
Saturday, October 12, 2024 | 13:00 - 17:00 Uhr
13:00 - 14:00 Input Hanna Saar
14:00 - 16:00 Individual workshops
16:00 - 17:00 Pasta dinner & exchange
Studio 2, Labor Ateliers, Dachauer Straße 112d, 80636 München
In German spoken language
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