The Crossing Lines Project

The Crossing Lines Project - the full name is Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project - is the title of an intercultural and Europe-wide dance theater that was developed from 2015 to 2018 under the direction of the Freiburg action theater Panoptikum and performed in public by young adults. The cultural funding of the European Union contributed to the financing of the project.

Conception

The definition of hip-hop music with the typical spoken word rap as a form of expression was made at the beginning of the project. According to Matthias Rettner , who was responsible for the overall management of the project, both the participants and the audience from different walks of life are interested in this artistic combination, so that the lines of social and ethnic origin hardly play a role. The overall concept, which was divided into two phases, was shaped by Sigrun Fritsch from Aktionstheater Panoptikum and rapper Robin Haefs from Berlin: The first phase involved advertising for three people from ten European partner cities. This group of thirty young adults developed the dance theater The Crossing Lines Project in Freiburg in the summer of 2017 . In the second phase, following the premiere on the Stühlinger Kirchplatz in Freiburg on July 28, 2017, from August 2017 to summer 2018 , the piece was performed a total of nine times in public space.

Performances

All performances of the Crossing Lines production were carried out in public spaces. These stagings also had the aim of visualizing the results of anonymous surveys of the respective audience:

July 28, 2017: Premiere in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
July 29, 2017: Second performance in Freiburg im Breisgau
August 5, 2017: Helsingor , Denmark
August 12, 2017: Newbury , England
April 27, 2018: Murmansk , Russia
May 19, 2018: Bytom , Poland
June 2, 2018: Rastatt , Germany
June 9th 2018: Folkestone , England
June 15, 2018: Sibiu , Romania
June 30, 2018: Görlitz , Germany
July 21, 2018: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain

literature

Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. German and English. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95749-137-4 .
Zygmunt Bauman : The fear of others. An essay on migration and scaremongering. Translated from English by Michael Bischoff . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-07258-5 .
Béatrice Hecht-El Minshawi , Jürgen Engel: Living in cultural diversity. Managing Cultural Diversity. Going other ways - discovering new things. Foreword by Hans Koschnick . Kellner, Bremen / Boston 2006, ISBN 3-927155-51-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Sabine Bornemann: Do theater with the EU in eight countries. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 8–10.
^ Matthias Rettner: Foreword. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 14–16.
^ Sigrun Fritsch, Michael Kaiser: Now for Europe. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 20–41.
^ Robin Haefs: Rap in the theater. For stage art without clichés. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 74–77.
↑ Christoph Maurer, Peter Zizka : Generative head theater with democratic design? An attempt to explain. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, p. 107f.
↑ Jens Frimann Hansen: A new era. Passage Festival in Helsingør – Helsingborg. In: In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 168–177.
↑ Simon Chatterton: Fighting Dark Clouds. Corn Exchange / 101 in Newbury. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 202–209.
↑ Dagmara Gumkowska: (Re) discovery of the power of diversity and the importance of crossing borders. Centrum Kultury in Bytom. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 236–241.
↑ Alastair Upton: a formative experience. Creative Foundation Folkstone. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 190–192.
↑ Lucian Pană: Beauty of Diversity. The Sibui International Theater Festival. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 224–227.
^ Christiane Hoffmann: From the border region to Europe. ViaThea Görlitz / Zgorzelec. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, p. 180f.
↑ Marisol Garcia Abraham: Intercultural exchange as a creative and vital engine. Temudas Festival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 212–214.

[1] Sabine Bornemann: Do theater with the EU in eight countries. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 8–10.

[2] Matthias Rettner: Foreword. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 14–16.

[3] Sigrun Fritsch, Michael Kaiser: Now for Europe. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 20–41.

[4] Robin Haefs: Rap in the theater. For stage art without clichés. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 74–77.

[5] Christoph Maurer, Peter Zizka : Generative head theater with democratic design? An attempt to explain. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, p. 107f.

[6] Jens Frimann Hansen: A new era. Passage Festival in Helsingør – Helsingborg. In: In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 168–177.

[7] Simon Chatterton: Fighting Dark Clouds. Corn Exchange / 101 in Newbury. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 202–209.

[8] Dagmara Gumkowska: (Re) discovery of the power of diversity and the importance of crossing borders. Centrum Kultury in Bytom. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 236–241.

[9] Alastair Upton: a formative experience. Creative Foundation Folkstone. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 190–192.

[10] Lucian Pană: Beauty of Diversity. The Sibui International Theater Festival. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 224–227.

[11] Christiane Hoffmann: From the border region to Europe. ViaThea Görlitz / Zgorzelec. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, p. 180f.

[12] Marisol Garcia Abraham: Intercultural exchange as a creative and vital engine. Temudas Festival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In: Matthias Rettner (Ed.): Power of Diversity. The Crossing Lines Project. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, pp. 212–214.