An edition of Why theatre?
(2020)
Why theatre?
by Kaatje de Geest, Carmen Hornbostel, Milo Rau, and Gregory Ball
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"[A]fter months of cultural lockdown, when live arts were in a state of emergency and the whole institution rethought their priorities, NTGent asked more than 100 of the most influential artists and intellectuals in the world the question: Why theatre? Why is this art form so unique, so beautiful, so indispensable? From classical theatre to performance art and dance, from activism to political theatre and the performativity of everyday life, authors of all continents and generations delivered short essays, memories, manifestos, letters. Moments of aesthetic epiphany meet strong emotion, critical insights into the problems of representation and populism compete with utopian texts about the theatre of the future: more than 100 voices about the state of performing arts in 2020."--Page 2.
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Table of Contents
Editorial
A constant journey of doubt and experimentation -- Mohammad Al Attar
Things I would miss -- Lola Arias
Theatre as a spiritual path -- Hector Aristizábal
The lion king -- Back to Back Theatre
The Think Tank Theatre -- Yael Bartana
The same air -- Vincent Baudriller
Saving the world -- Jérôme Bel
Theatre humain -- Chokri Ben Chikha (Action Zoo Humain)
Why oh why? -- Bread and Puppet Theatre
Art is not about producing, it's about implementing
Tania Bruguera --
Suspension of disbelief -- Luanda Casella
The art of those who dare -- Nora Chipaumire
On vulgar acting -- Benny Claessens
About wild capitalism & its patriarchal performance in our lives -- Colectivo LASTESIS
Home -- Kelly Copper (Nature Theatre of Oklahoma)
A letter to dance -- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
I was theatre, but theatre was never me -- Mihaela Drǎgan
"All the world's a stage," (really?) -- Radha D'Souza
Re: Theatre does not entertain me -- Tania El Khoury
Dinner is served -- Nicoleta Esinencu
Not even the dead will be safe if the enemy wins -- Douglas Estevam (MST)
One day we will all be free -- Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment)
Sustaining the sky -- Cibele Forjaz
On theatre, absence, disappearance and bodies -- Oliver Frljić
You know you want it! -- Gob Squad
It has eaten up all the others -- Julien Gosselin
Together in the dark -- Sébastien Hendrickx (Extinction Rebellion)
For a life in action -- Florentina Holzinger
Living in theatre -- Hsin-Chien Huang
Need I say more? -- Isabelle Huppert
Wet dreams -- Manuela Infante
When we still do not know what theatre is -- Christiane Jatahy
Whatever you do is theatre -- Jojo & Joyee (House of Muchness)
Stop pretending -- John Jordan
Because -- Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
A is not. Any more than B. -- Alexander Karschnia (andcompany&Co.)
The infinite game of becoming -- Susanne Kennedy
The less good idea -- William Kentridge
Never becoming the concrete answer -- Amir Reza Koohestani
Our opera is a body, is a vessel, is a village -- Aino Laberenz
Born from the inside out -- Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Embodiment -- Ursina Lardi
I need company -- Jan Lauwers (Needcompany)
Let us be invaded -- Marco Layera
Theatre belongs in a museum -- James Leadbitter (The Vacuum Cleaner)
Why sea stars? -- Frie Leysen
About the ineffable: the mystical conception -- Angélica Liddell
Laboratories of the future -- Matthias Lilienthal
The suspension of freedom -- Édouard Louis
Theatre as assembly -- Florian Malzacher
Creating a climate of change -- Katie Mitchell
Forever changes -- Sanja Mitrović
A sort of genesis -- Ariane Mnouchkine
Technicians of Dionysus -- Ermanna Montanari & Marco Martinelli (Teatro Delle Albe)
Excursus -- Maia Morgenstern
The role of theatre in the struggle against neoliberal hegemony -- Chantal Mouffe
There will always be theatre -- Yolanda Mpelé
Between here and here -- Rabih Mroué
Exile and territory -- Kornel Mundruzcó
Why as a responsibility to awe -- Ogutu Muraya
Second exit after the soul -- Nganji Mutiri
Theatre, because freedom -- Jeton Neziraj
Hello darkness -- Daniela Nicolò & Enrico Casagrande (MOTUS)
Theatre of vulnerability -- Boris Nikitin
Why water -- Mamela Nyamza
Dear grandma, -- Markus Öhrn
Fiction coming to life and intercontextualisation -- Toshiki Okada
We sit as an audience in the now -- Suzanne Osten
States of emergency -- Thomas Ostermeier
Like breathing -- Bouchra Ouizguen
The grass is greener on the stage -- Lies Pauwels
For God's sake why? -- Luk Perceval
Nurture the audacity -- Alain Platel
This is a recording -- René Pollesch
Thinking of the end of the world in costume by the sea -- Philippe Quesne
Indispensable ritual -- Mokhallad Rasem
Theatre is a place of truth -- Milo Rau
Put on another show -- Falk Richter
To stay in life -- Tiago Rodrigues
The curtain should rise on the right side -- Kathrin Röggla
Piece of evidence -- Pia Maria Roll & Hanan Benammar
Believing before seeing -- Didier Ruiz
Creating a new world -- Amir Sabra (Stereo48)
Why art, why now, why ever? -- Farah Saleh
In closed spaces -- Fabian Scheidler
Why, honey? -- Dennis Seidel
Antibodies against lies -- Kirill Serebrennikov
Slowly getting high -- She She Pop
For as long as I can remember, I've been performing -- Buhlebezwe Siwani
Lack of guarantee -- Mårten Spångberg
Half world -- Veit Sprenger (Showcase Beat Le Mot)
Towards emancipatory performance -- Lara & Jonas Staal
Ghost choirs -- Botho Strauß
We got it all wrong -- Tea Tupajić
Some call it universe, I call it theatre -- Carole Umulinga Karemera
Confusionists -- Igor Vamos (Yes Men)
Art is a human right -- Ivo van Hove
A world that needs ceaseless reconstruction -- Gisèle Vienne
The condition of community -- Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat)
The fifth wall -- Marc-Antoine Vumilia
Everything is open -- Sasha Waltz
Why not -- Miet Warlop
Tough love -- Joanna Warsza
Incomprehensibility -- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Escalation! -- Zentrum für politische Schönheit
The art of unmasking -- Dominique Ziegler.
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