Schwabinggrad Ballet
The Schwabinggrad Ballet is a Hamburg agitprop collective from the Butt Club environment , which moves in the broad field of political action, action art, performance, dance and music. In addition to their work in music and performance projects, the group also takes part as a “mobile task force” at demos , border camps, anti-Olympic events and other forms of political action.
history
The Schwabinggrad Ballet was founded in 2000 at the NoBorder Camp . Initially only as a group for subversive political actions at demonstrations, economic summits, border camps and the like. thought, artistic formats increasingly developed that took place both in public space and in theater contexts. This is how two records have already been made, which were released on the Berlin Staubgold label and the Hamburg label Buback .
The current line-up includes performers, artists and activists such as Ted Gaier ( Goldene Zitronen ), Charalambos Ganotis , Silvy Kretzschmar , Peter Ott , Heike Nöth, Christine Schulz, Margarita Tsomou , Liz Rech and Christoph Twickel . Previous members have included Bernadette La Hengst , Frank John, Petra Barz, Elmar Günther, Heiko Marn, Tina Petersen, Christoph Schäfer and Knarf Rellöm .
Since 2014 the Schwabinggrad Ballet has been working with activists from the “Lampedusa in Hamburg” group, which later became the Arrivati collective.
This resulted in the performances We are evidence of war ( Wiener Festwochen 2014), Platz der Untilligenlösungen II ( Park Fiction Hamburg 2014), Choirs of the Coming (Live Art Festival, Kampnagel 2015) and Choirs of the Arrived ( HAU , Berlin 2017).
Surname
According to the group, the name "Schwabinggrad Ballett" is composed of the name of the Munich district of Schwabing , where the first bohemist street musician riots in the Federal Republic took place, and the name of the city of Stalingrad , the site of the greatest defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II . together.
Discography
- Schwabinggrad Ballet (Staubgold, 2005)
- Arrivati / Schwabinggrad Ballet: Beyond Welcome (Buback, 2016)