EDITION 2012
OFFenes BERLIN
INFORMATION
OFFENES BERLIN means "open/off Berlin" and aims to present what is en vogue in the imaginative and full of humour capital city of the contemporary independent art. The audience of Szczecin no longer needs to travel to Berlin to see the best young artists, the winners of the annual artistic festival 100Grad - now they will come to Szczecin!
In May 2012 we hosted dance performance Fire Is Raging in Your Hair by Anna Nowicka, later this month the space of the Center and its surroundings were taken over by Mica-Moca artists. In September we presented Leyla Postalcioglu's performance roof, October saw theatre installation es glaubt, es rauscht (it thinks, it rustless) by a multidisciplinary group Musiktheater bruit!, and in November we hosted Analog Avatar by Johanny Castell.
HEBBEL AM UFER (HAU) is a major theatre space of Kreuzberg - an artistic district of Berlin - made up of three scenes (HAU1, HAU2 and HAU3) located in the same neighborhood. The space hosts several hundred events a year: among them are both acknowledged theatres as well as theatre explorations from Germany and from around the world, scientific symposiums, festivals ('Polish Express', dance festival 'Contexts', among others), concerts, exhibitions and cutting edge projects (X-Wohnungen (Apartments-X)). Productions hosted by HAU scenes, rather than fitting into the traditional theatre or dance frames, are supposed to be a search for new formats and new discourses.
100GRAD FESTIVAL (100 degrees) independent theatre festival has been taking place since 2003, in two art-spaces: Hebbel am Ufer and Sophiensaele. During 4 days of theatrical marathon, known as 'the hottest festival in town', altogether about 130 theatre and performance groups chosen from among 360 candidates (according to 2011 numbers) perform in hourly intervals. Five jury teams choose one winner each - the awarded performers constitute contemporary avant-garde, who with no restraint and no unnecessary seriousness explore the fringes of performing arts. Filled up-to-the-top program is accompanied every day by festival newspaper 100 words (100 being the number of words per a review), discussions (both among experts and the audience) as well as dance parties that last till the morning.
