Playgrounds

A playground is a site for creation and playful exchange with no or basic tools in one’s hands. Thus, simplicity and imagination are needed. A playground is a gathering of those who don’t necessarily work on the same idea but share the same procedures, of those who don’t necessarily know what they are working on but feel the need to try out and have instant insight. Playgrounders need grounds to play; they are in need of sites and of motivation alike. Where and what are these grounds? In the course of the week, we will look at different places where we supposedly find these grounds, both in terms of space and concept. Thus, Peter, Silke, and Sybrig will prepare multiple approaches that will revolve around the notions of (methodological) simplicity and (artistic) imagination in order to create an environment for joint creation, site-specific try outs, and shared feedback.

Peter Stamer works as a free-lance theatre director, performer, dramaturge, mentor, and curator in the field of performance, dance, and urban environments. His recent projects comprise the TV project Drama Queens (Vienna 2009/2010), the documentary and performance project The Path of Money (Beijing, Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg 2008- 2010), and the urban project La Caja Negra (Gijon 2009/2010). At the moment, he is conceiving the performance project For Your Eyes Only, the methodology of which will be integrated in Playgrounds.

Silke Bake is a Berlin-based dramaturge and curator. She collaborates with choreographers and directors in different projects and contexts; among other with Milli Bitterli, Reinhild Hoffmann, deufert +plischke. She also develops and works on programmes at different venues, such as Tanzquartier Wien, Akademie der Künste Berlin, and Kanuti Gildi Saal Tallinn. In 2008 and 2009, she was responsible, together with the curator André Lepecki, for the performing arts festival IN TRANSIT at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. In 2010, she curated an interdisciplinary programme The Presence of Elsewhere - here an now about postcolonialism and theatre at the festival Theaterformen in Braunschweig.

Sybrig Dokter identifies herself as a dance maker. However, recently her work has branched out in different media, such as installation and film. In dance, she works with instant composition techniques in the creative process as well as during performance in various contexts. She received her dance education during the late seventies in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), London, and New York. She worked as a dancer in New York and Canada before moving back to Europe. Sybrig has performed work by other choreographers as well as created her own work. Her teaching and performing has taken her, amongst others, to the Baltic countries, Moldova, Bulgaria, Russia, Scandinavia, and Great Britain.

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