Successful festival season 2018

Dear audience,

The first Ruhrtriennale under the artistic direction of Stefanie Carp will end on Sunday, September 23, with the concert Aufbruch by the Cuban-European Youth Academy in the Grand Hall Zollverein in Essen. The artistic director of the years 2018 - 2020 drew a preliminary summary of her first festival year at a press conference in Bochum today.

Stefanie Carp: "I think we have had some great artistic success in this Ruhrtriennale, which I am very happy about and for which I am very grateful to all who have been involved. Among others, The Head and the Load by William Kentridge, Universe, Incomplete by Christoph Marthaler, Diamante by Mariano Pensotti and Exodos by Sasha Waltz & Guests have become outstanding events. But also Kirina by Serge Aimé Coulibaly has once again received a very great quality in the Maschinenhalle Zweckel, which the production in Marseille had not yet achieved."

With productions such as Schorsch Kamerun's Nordstadt Phantasien, the long-term project of the Junge Triennale #nofear, the discourse event Training for the Future by Jonas Staal, and the free program in the festival center, a new, young audience has been reached, he said. "The Ruhrtriennale audience is the best of all," Carp said.

Under the leitmotif "Zwischenzeit," the 2018 Ruhrtriennale addressed the fundamental upheavals and departures of our society. The themes of migration and displacement significantly shaped the program with acclaimed productions such as William Kentridge's The Head and the Load, Serge Aimé Coulibaly's Kirina or the very impressive and touching world premiere of the play The Factory by Mohammad Al Attar and Omar Abusaada. The festival narrative of the interim period will continue programmatically in 2019 and 2020.