Self-Organizing Systems, Stickiness and Mental Resistance…

An interview with Mette Ingvartsen on Moving in Concert (2019)

Bojana Cvejić

interview 31.08.2020

Listening in detail – Alma Söderberg

Theatres remain closed, so instead of publishing reviews of new pieces, Etcetera asked artists to share a virtual contribution: a peek inside their studio, an insight in their research or work in progress. 

Alma Söderberg

multimedia 15.05.2020

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Milo Rau was to receive an honorary doctorate from the Ugent in March. Corona decided differently, but Etcetera decided to go ahead and publish the essay Rau wrote for this occasion.

Milo Rau

essay 15.04.2020

The Crisis Stage

In times of crisis we see just how closely reality and fiction really are. What seemed like a world dominated by a single scenario of endless growth and movement, turns out to be capable of drastic change from one day to the next. Lara Staal analyzes the COVID-19 crisis and gives words to the script that is unfolding around us.

Lara Staal

column 14.04.2020

De lege zaal: Broken Shapes – Rimah Jabr & Dareen Abbas / Moussem

The coronavirus empties streets and theatres. Because we prefer virtual theatre to none at all, we give the stage to some of the artists whose premieres got cancelled. How does corona impact their practices and lives?

Rimah Jabr

article 25.03.2020

Die Überwindung des Individuums als Chance

Susanne Kennedy feiert den Posthumanismus und entwirft das Theater immer wieder neu

Für Susanne Kennedy ist das Theater ein Ritual, wobei sie selbst als Regisseurin in die Rolle einer Schamanin gerät. Das klingt geheimnisvoll und ist es auch.

Shirin Sojitrawalla

essay 23.03.2020

Dancing with a deer, a jaguar or a snake

A diptych on the re-appearance of other-than-Human movements, with Amanda Piña and Rolando Vázquez

Choreographer and performer Amanda Piña is steadily building an embodied praxis that aligns itself with the re-emergence of endangered ancestral movements, dance forms and worlds at large. In a context of accelerated extraction of natural resources, plundering of land and life, she is slowly developing a grounded body of subversive work. One of her collaborators, decolonial thinker Rolando Vázquez acknowledges that, while dancing otherwise, Piña fundamentally unsettles the coloniality of sensing and knowing proper to the fields of performing arts and inspires the imagination of ‘a world in which many worlds fit’. A diptych about an ever moving praxis, challenging the colonial boundaries of our very being, revitalizing deeper relations and vibrant cosmologies, breathing life back in the center of our concerns.

Joachim Ben Yakoub

conversation 17.02.2020