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12. - 31. Aug
01. - 24. Sep
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Refektorium)
Forum & dialog, Installation, Music, Teentalitarismus, Film, Performance
Das Kunstdorf "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" wird vor der Jahrhunderthalle Bochum zum Festivalzentrum mit Bar und eigenem Programm mit Musik, Kunst, Performances, Filmen u.v.m.
Music theatre
Christoph Willibald Gluck, René Jacobs, Johan Simons
King Admetos is dying. The gods promise to cure him if someone will sacrifice themselves in his place. Who is willing to do this? A European myth in an uncompromising opera.
Music theatre
Heinrich Schütz, Nikolaus Brass, Paul Verrept, ChorWerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath, Wouter Van Looy, Wim Catrysse
Should we cry, scream or just accept it? Mankind is confronted by an earth which is exhausted. Choral music old and new in literature and on film.
Theatre
Björn Bicker, Malte Jelden, ChorWerk Ruhr
Six religions, six venues in the Ruhr region: Who we are. What we believe. Where we live. Where we do fit in. Where we don’t fit in. So what do you believe?
Theatre
Wunderbaum, Arnon Grünberg
Sexual liberation is a myth. Though we’ll never be able to free the prisoner inside us, maybe we can give it a breath of fresh air.
Theatre
Émile Zola, Luk Perceval
Paris is caught up in feverish whirl of glittering department stores, the flourishing stock market and scandalous theatres. And in the centre of it all is the ambitious prostitute Nana.
Theatre
Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg, Birgit Minichmayr
Medea destroys what she has given birth to – thereby completing life’s bloody cycle. The ancient world enters the digital age in a ritual of theatre and installation.
Theatre
Between heaven and hell: the theatremakers of tomorrow in a single night in Mülheim, Essen and Bochum.
Music
Moderat, Peaches, Oneohtrix Point Never, raster-noton Showcase, Âme Live, Ben UFO, Lena Willikens, Ahmet Sisman, Quartier Midi
Electronic music from highbrow to lowbrow, from sub-culture, club culture and pop culture, from overground to underground.
Music
Emptyset, Holly Herndon, Het Collectief, Eric Sleichim, Anton Batagov
Emptyset, BL!NDMAN, Holly Herndon, Anton Batagov, Het Collectief, Ensemble Musikfabrik Every Monday during the festival: concerts on the threshold between body and spirit, between time and eternity.
Music
Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell, Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, Vitaly Polonsky, MusicAeterna
Both legendary and modern: the opera choir from Perm in Russia combines 40 part a capella Renaissance music with baroque and contemporary pieces.
Music
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bochumer Symphoniker, ChorWerk Ruhr
Surrounded by four choirs and four orchestras, the audience experiences the powerful shifts of sound in this rarely-performed avant-garde work.
Music
When the dark drones of these doom metal legends throb through the ether, they turn music into a physical experience.
Music
Mauricio Kagel, Reinbert de Leeuw, Asko|Schönberg
Imagination, originality and humour are hallmarks of the work of Ligeti and Kagel. A concert with Reinbert de Leeuw, whom both regarded as one of the most passionate interpreters of their music.
Music
Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent
Bach’s great work sung by one of the world’s best choirs.
Music
Pierre Boulez, Matthias Pintscher, Ensemble intercontemporain, Ircam
In this masterpiece of electronic music, acoustic instruments are combined with electronic sounds. An overwhelming concert of spatial music which will be performed twice in immediate succession.
Music
Tindersticks
Eleven pieces, eleven short films. The British cult band’s unmistakable groove offers a live audiovisual trip.
Music
The shaman of techno’s new band project lends electronic pop music a transcendental dimension.
Dance
Richard Siegal
Ritual cleansing and cathartic cabaret. Contemporary dance becomes a multimedia purgatory.
Dance
Meg Stuart, Damaged Goods
A playful series of choreographic sketches, imaginative transformations and intimate actions.
Dance
Alain Platel, Steven Prengels, Berlinde De Bruyckere, les ballets C de la B
Europe in a state of upheaval: the feverish continent at the beginning of the 20th century. And it all starts with the music of Gustav Mahler.
Dance
Eleanor Bauer, Chris Peck, Ictus Ensemble
A new kind of song cycle whose fictional characters reflect on emotions in a digital future.
Dance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Rosas
An evening which brings together Brian Eno’s legendary album ‘Another Green World’ and Shakespeare’s comedy of gender confusion ‘As You Like It’.
Installation
Follow the light and show us where you live and love and what you spend your money on. Emerging photographers look at the Ruhr in master courses with Daniel Josefsohn and Julian Röder.
Installation
Atelier Van Lieshout
The wait is over. The crazy art village is back. Six weeks of art for free!
Installation
Mit Ohne Alles, Mammalian Diving Reflex
This is their territory. These are their rules. They are in Power. Nervous?
Installation
Rimini Protokoll
An auditorium moving though Duisburg. Seven moments of everyday life and art create a road movie viewed from a truck.
Installation
Julian Rosefeldt, Cate Blanchett
She’s a speculator, a housewife, a reporter, a punk, a homeless person, a teacher, a newsreader ... the Australian film icon recites a series of artistic manifestos.
Installation
osa_office for subversive architecture
An undiscovered section of the city. At its centre the people who will use it. An open invitation to everyone to negotiate everyday urban life together.
Forum & dialog
Carolin Emcke
The speech to open the Ruhrtriennale 2016 will be given by Carolin Emcke. In “On Translation” she will speak in German on the value of equality. Entry is free of charge.
Forum & dialog
Come and join us to celebrate the premieres of Ruhrtriennale 2016. Music, conversation, food and drink – here is your buffet voucher.
Forum & dialog
Möchten Sie richtig gutes soul-food essen? Wollen Sie eine neue Geschmackswelt erleben, alles im Stile unserer Musiktheater-Produktion "Die Fremden"?
Forum & dialog
Freedom has been gambled and fear has won - How Europe is destroying itself with the refugee question. Speaker: Esra Küçük.