It’s one week away from the premiere of FAUST [working title] at the Dutch National Opera. I am working in the production as dramaturgical adviser. A key concept that the artistic team will be integrating into this work is the notion of the body and performative repertoire as a cultural… Continue reading
Catch the online performances of this year’s Mannheimer Sommer Festival, running this week. On Friday, 17 July 2020, I will be giving the keynote lecture, “Opera and the Exotic in Us”. This will be followed by an online discussion moderated by NTM diversity officer Sophie Kara, the designated director of… Continue reading
Dearest friends, the Berlin Senate, last week, decided to extend the theatre closure due to the Corona pandemic until July 31, 2020. Because of this regulation, there will be no events at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse until the end of summer break. This means the restaging of »sonus — the sound… Continue reading
Tomorrow would have been the re-opening of »Echoing Europe: Postcolonial Reverberations« at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. However, this week, the gramophone, the shellacs, the reel-tapes, and radios shall remain silent, and the stage dark, until we could gather again as a community in the theatre. The Berlin Senator for Culture and Europe,… Continue reading
Elisa Erkelenz came to Ballhaus Naunynstrasse to see Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations last December, and we talked about sound, music, performance, and archives. Thanks, Elisa for including our conversation on the latest edition of VAN Outernational Magazine. “yamomos Soundperformance im Ballhaus Naunynstrasse ist eine vielschichtige Überlagerung verschiedener Zeiten und Bewertungssysteme. Der Saal… Continue reading