Radio ballet

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The term radio ballet in 2002 by Evelyn Doerr in connection with their satirical applied Charlie Chaplin -Stück The man in the moon. A radio ballet with Charlie Chaplin used, which was originally broadcast by WDR on December 25, 2002 , and which was published in an expanded version in 2008 in the Edition Akustische Bühne. The term there describes the stage arrangement as a specifically choreographic-acoustic interaction of language, music and gesture.

The Hamburg artist collective Ligna already used the term a good six months earlier for an action that took place on May 5, 2002 in Hamburg Central Station: This includes features of the direct action , the smart mob and the protest theater and is, as it is in the self-portrayal of the Performance group from 2009 is called an “Exercise in Abandoning Not Intended”. LIGNA names the increasing privatization of public space and the associated sanctioning of deviant behavior as the trigger for its protest actions . There were protests organized by LIGNA in different cities, each in cooperation with free radio stations , and anyone can participate; The prerequisite is a mobile radio that can receive suggestions for behavior. Via the radio broadcast, for example, actions are tried out that are permitted or prohibited according to the prevailing house rules (greeting - shaking hands: permitted; begging - holding hands: prohibited). There is no temptation to participate; the radio voice always indicates that nobody should join in something they do not want. The exercises are interrupted by information, theory and reflection blocks.

The first protest of this kind took place on May 5, 2002 in Hamburg Central Station . For an hour and a half, behaviors and gestures that had been repressed along with the typical fringe groups (foreigners, beggars, dealers, homeless people, punks, smokers, etc.) The second radio ballet, with around 500 participants, took place on June 22, 2003 as part of the festival Entsicherung: A Theatrical Interference in Public Space at Leipzig Central Station . LIGNAS protest actions are not necessarily tied to officially privatized rooms. As part of the project A Question (After) the Gesture , realized by the Academy of Graphics and Book Art in the Leipzig Opera , Ligna invited to a radio ballet in the city center under the title Standardized Spaces - Deviating Gestures . The campaign not only had an effect on the participants themselves, but also on the large numbers of visitors to the Christmas market.

The form of the radio ballet was picked up and used several times by other actors. On October 26, 2004, for example, anarchist groups in Vienna held a radio ballet against the national holiday celebrations, and on May 9, 2005, a radio ballet also took place in the Munich pedestrian zone on the occasion of the annual Munich security conference. The form of action enjoyed particular popularity among the trade union youth, who organized a large number of radio ballets.

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Müller-Lobeck: Collective waving . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 6, 2002, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 22 ( taz.de [accessed April 7, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Ligna radio ballet
  3. ↑ ak 475: collective dispersion. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Youtube video of the radio ballet at Leipzig Central Station on June 22, 2003, from 4:00 a.m. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Kulturstiftung des Bundes - Entsicherung, Leipzig. February 21, 2013, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  6. ^ Project A question (about) the gesture
  7. ↑ Youtube video radio ballet on the "National Holiday" 2004 Vienna. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ cf. Youtube-Video: Radio against the NATO Security Conference
  9. ^ DGB district Berlin-Brandenburg: radio ballet for the "election campaign start" of the DGB youth. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .

Web links