NORDWIND platform and festival
The Nordwind Festival is a festival for performance , dance , theater , music and visual arts from the Nordic and Baltic countries. It was founded in Berlin in 2006 and has taken place every two years since 2007. The 2013 festival took place in the Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin, on Kampnagel in Hamburg and in the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden. In 2015 the Sophiensæle and the Dampfzentrale Bern were added.
The festival has partners in Berlin and Hamburg, including the Volksbühne Berlin, KW and Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik.
history
The festival was founded in Berlin in 2006 by Ricarda Ciontos, who has been the artistic director ever since. The idea for the festival came about during a German-Swedish co-production based on Ingmar Bergman's “ Herbstsonate ” , in which Ciontos was involved as an actress. After a few guest appearances in Germany, the piece should be performed again in Berlin. In addition, other artists with their latest productions from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark were invited and so the first festival came about.
After the first, still small festival edition in 2006 with one venue and around 450 spectators, the second edition took place in 2007 in seven locations in Berlin and had 3000 visitors. In 2009, the festival played at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) on eight festival days and had over 4,000 spectators. In 2011, Nordwind took place in two cities for the first time: In Berlin, Dock 11 , Radialsystem V and the Freie Volksbühne Berlin were played for ten days . Nordwind then presented the productions for a week at Kampnagel in Hamburg. A total of 120 artists from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia presented their productions in 70 events that were attended by over 7500 spectators.
The thematic focus of the sixth edition of the festival in 2015 was the relationship between Europe and Russia. Under the title “Balagan - Zones of Resistance.” The festival threw a glance at the eastern neighbors, Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
With "Songs of a melting iceberg - displaced without moving" from November 7 to December 18, 2017 in Berlin and Hamburg, Nordwind dedicated itself to a multi-layered, innovative and contemporary definition of identity through a merger of Arctic, Nordic and African art and performance positions.
From December 1 to 7, 2017, the Martyrs Museum discussed took place in Studio 1 of the Bethanien art district. From February 8 to 11, 18, Nordwind will once again focus on Russia with the German-Russian performance and talk series Nowy Mir .
Over the years, Nordwind has been supported by various national and international funding institutions as well as the Capital City Culture Fund, the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Nordic Council of Ministers , the Nordic embassies and many more.
Main topics
Songs of a melting iceberg - displaced without moving (2017/2018)
The project is dedicated to a multi-layered, innovative and contemporary definition of identity, through a merger of Arctic, Nordic and African art and performance positions that are located in the arc of tension between traditional and contemporary forms of expression.
Novy Mir (2017/2018)
The Russian-German talk series "Novy Mir / New World" has set itself the goal of reviving the tradition of utopian science fiction, in which stuck problems on planet earth can be negotiated between different interest groups from an imagined perspective far outside.
Balagan - Zones of Resistance (2015)
The thematic focus of the sixth edition of the festival in 2015 was the relationship between Europe and Russia. Under the title “Balagan - Zones of Resistance.” The festival threw a glance at the eastern neighbors, Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
Urban Species (2014)
12 groups of artists were invited to present their different approaches and positions on the topics of urbanity, modernity, technology versus nature, instinct and need in Berlin and Hamburg.
Ikearopa (2013)
Ikearopa - Critical Perspectives on European Identity is the title of a focal point at the interface of art, science and social politics, which was carried out in the context of the Norwinds Festival 2013 in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden.
North Wind 2011
In 2011 the programmatic focus was on the lively and diverse Finnish art and culture scene.
Reception and reviews
General
"The Nordwind audience, often young and multilingual, also appreciated that: not to be able to formulate results, but to attend the drafting of concepts and the search for where art could go." (Taz, December 7th); "The retrospective Figures of Silence by the Russian activist and performer Pjotr Pawlenski is particularly topical and not for the faint of heart" (Hamburger Abendblatt, November 25, 2015)
“Spectacular art action by Andrey Kuzkin in Hamburg” (Deutschlandfunk, November 29th); “Who will survive the apocalypse? Brilliant guest performance by the Iceland Dance Company at the Nordwind Festival in Bern ”(Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 30th) as well as for the“ BALAGAN !!! ”exhibition in Berlin:“ A desperate finding of reality, a look back at failed utopias, a puppet theater the mighty ... "(taz, November 23, 2015);
“In the retrospective of the Russian master of travesty Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, lust and chaos rule. Neither gender, gender, age or sexual identity are subject to any law. Everything flows into one another and makes the post-communist space appear as free, anti-authoritarian, unorthodox and full of humor as we otherwise never see it. "(Die Welt, 16.12.15)
Christine Wahl wrote in the newspaper "Der Tagesspiegel" about the 2013 North Wind Festival:
"Okay is never enough - the festival, which is bringing Northern European art - performance, music, painting - to Germany for the fifth time, is so successful that it will take place in 2013 for the first time not only in Berlin, but in two other cities. After the Dresden It will open on Wednesday at the HAU in Berlin and then move on to Hamburg. "
"Die Welt" wrote about the 2011 festival:
"In its fourth edition, Nordwind has developed from a small festival founded in Berlin in 2006 into the largest platform for exchange between Scandinavian, Baltic and German artists (...)"
Anne Peter writes in the "zitty" that the festival
“Doesn't see itself simply as a showcase for the theater in the Nordic countries. Rather, the artistic director Ricarda Ciontos always instinctively brings theater makers to Berlin who, because of their radicalism and consistency as well as the courage to be pathos, grab even the supposedly hardened cultural goers by the bowels. "
Contributing artist
2015
Berstad / Helgebostad / Wigdel, Ulu Braun, Stefano Corso, Ludwig Daae, Anna von Hausswolff, Arve Henriksen, Iceland Dance Company, Martyn Jacques, Damien Jalet, Olga Jitlina, Valdimar Jóhannson, Krasnaya Shpana, Andrey Kuzkin, Dario-Jacopo Laganá, Lisa Lie, Andreas Liebmann, Marcus Lindeen, Aloun Marchal, Mungo Park + Eventministeriet, Joanna Nordahl, Stina Nyberg, Mary Ocher, Tilman O'Donnell, Erna Ómarsdóttir, Michail Patlasow, Pjotr Pawlenski, Elina Pirinen, Roger Sala Reyner, Oleg Soulimenko, Andrej Sowlatschkow, Supersilent, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Simon Tanguy, Verdensteatret, Yxus Ensemble.
2014
Alpo Koivumäki, Boris Vormann, Club Real, Daniel AlmgrenRecén, deufert & plischke, Fiksdal / Langgård / Becker, Invisible Playground, Johan Forsman & Johan Rödström, Jule Flierl, Kalervo Palsa - Patrick Raddatz, Other Spaces Live Art Collective, Poste Restante, raumlaborberlin, Reich + Szyber, students at the HfbK, Tuija Kokkonen Maus & Orlovski
2013
A Rose is / Julian Klein, Ólafur Arnalds, Thomas Dybdahl, Charlotte Engelkes, Ingri Midgard Fiksdal, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Alvis Hermanis, Mette Ingvartsen, Eemil Karila, Mart Kangro, Sandra Kolstad, Oskaras Koršunovas, Monday, David Lagercrantz, Lj .Kodahåttjazz , Morten Nielsen, Oblivia, Agnes Obel, Erna Ómarsdóttir, Kalervo Palsa, Verk Produksjoner, Cabaret Rhizome, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Valters Silis, Alma Söderberg, The Nielsen Movement, Juha Valkeapää, Kris Verdonck
2011
Kjersti Skomsvold, Susanna Alakoski, Steinunn Sigurdadóttir, Trine Dyrholm, Daniel Proietto, Valdimar Johansson, Dakhabrakha, Elmer Bäck / Andreas Catjar, Peter Wivel, Nordic by Nature, ÖFA, TAIVEX, Jared Gradinger, Angela Schubot, Emelie Garmén, Eliisa Erävalo, Hallo Ólafsdóttir, Von Krahl Theater
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mandy Schielke: The people sauna at the Volksbühne. In: Deutschlandradio. November 28, 2011, accessed July 26, 2013 .
- ^ Irina Enache: Nordic Arts in Berlin - from concept to cultural management. In: ArtClue. March 14, 2012, accessed July 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Festival presence 2011. Accessed on July 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Schlagenwerth, Michaela. “Condensed dance elite”, in Berliner Zeitung , November 2, 2017.
- ^ "Theatrical horror in the" Märtyrermuseum " on Deutschlandfunk November 29, 2017. Accessed March 15, 2018.
- ↑ "Berlin exhibition celebrates Bataclan assassins as" martyrs " in focus December 4, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ↑ Profile. Retrieved March 22, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Comments on the NORDWIND Festival 2015. Accessed on March 28, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Comments on the NORDWIND Festival 2015. Accessed on March 28, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Comments on the NORDWIND Festival 2015. Accessed on March 28, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Okay is never enough . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on March 20, 2017]).
- ↑ Irmela Kästner: On the trail of the beast. In: The world. December 4, 2011, accessed July 29, 2013 .
- ↑ Anne Peter: On life and death. (No longer available online.) In: zitty. November 14, 2011, archived from the original on September 18, 2012 ; Retrieved July 30, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Artist AM. Retrieved March 22, 2017 (English).
- ^ Artist NZ. Retrieved March 22, 2017 (English).
- ↑ ARTIST'SQUEUE | Nordwind Festival - Festival for nordic performing, arts and music. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Kuenstler 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
- ↑ ARTIST'SQUEUE | NORDWIND FESTIVAL - Festival of Nordic and Baltic Arts. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
