Festival
Stage TOTAL
11 – 15 September 2019
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
March 1929 on the stage of Volksbühne Berlin: Wearing a metal mask, a silvery shining suit and metal balls at her hands, the dancer Karla Grosch moved between two bent, polished metal plates. However, she did not dance in this “Dance in Metal”. She rather modelled reflections, light and shadow effects. The “Bauhaus Dances” were experimental arrangements. In the Bauhaus stage workshop, the students should not become theatre makers, actors or dancers but strengthen their sensibility in the handling of material and space by motion exercises. Contemporary physical exercises for designers are shown in the Festival Stage Total.
The Festival:
The Bauhäusler claimed to think theatre “in total” to translate the speed and complexity of modern life in new innovative stage events. The boundaries between audience and actors should be dissolved, and new design media incorporated, e.g. light, film and mechanical appliances. One hundred years after the foundation of the Bauhaus, the Festival Stage Total invites to Dessauto jointly plunge in the experimental arrangement Bauhaus Stage.
International performers, choreographs and artists, but also architects and designers, make suggestions by installations and stagings and in performances and workshops. The visitors decide themselves which role, which distance, which depth of experience they want to obtain: By their autonomous movements through time and space, they directly define their own course of the festival.
In addition to the Open Stage in the foyer of the Bauhaus Museum, showing performances, each of the festival venues emphasizes its specific features. In the Bauhaus Building, in the Masters‘ Houses and in the Anhaltisches Theater, the visitors will experience a festival of motion, space and experiments with pinnacle formats, great performances and many amusements.
Programme
Detailed programme
11 September 2019
12 September 2019
13 September 2019
14 September 2019
15 September 2019
Online Tickets
chargeable events
F u n d i n g
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is a non-profit foundation under public law. It is institutionally funded by the German Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the State of Saxony-Anhalt, and the City of Dessau-Roßlau. The Festival Stage Total is generously funded by:
D o n a t o r s
café-bistro im Bauhaus
Designshop im Bauhaus
Heima Menü
Karl-Heinz Heise Stiftung
MCS Sachsen-Anhalt
Karl-Heinz Heise Stiftung
Dormero Hotel
DVV – Stadtwerke Dessau
Hotel 7 Säulen
SOEX Processing Germany GmbH, Bitterfeld-Wolfen
P a r t n e r s
Anhaltisches Theater Dessau
Arte Deutschland
Atemzug e.V.
BAG Spiel & Theater
Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Hellerau
Filmtank
Interactive Media Foundation
Hedwig Dances
Landesmusikrat Sachsen-Anhalt
Museum August Kestner Hannover
Musikschule Kurt Weill
Nico and the Navigators
Stadt Dessau Roßlau
Theater ANU
tristan Production | Management | Event Dresden
Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.
P a r t n e r u n i v e r s i t i e s
Bauhausuniversität Weimar, Bauformenlehre
Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
China Design Museum, Hangzhou
Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork Institute of Technology
Codart Rotterdam
DIE ETAGE – Schule für darstellende und Bildende Künste e.V.
DOCH School of Dance and Circus, Stockholm University of the Arts
Hedwig Dancers
Hochschule Anhalt
Hochschule Hannover
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Hochschule für Schauspielkunst „Ernst Busch“
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology
Kuwasawa Design School
Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden
Technische Universität Dresden
weißensee kunsthochschule Berlin
P a r t n e r S c h o o l s
of the Bauhaus Agenten Programme
Grundschule Ziebigk
Evangelische Grundschule
Grundschule am Luisium
Sekundarschule Kreuzberge
Friedensschule
Gymnasium Philanthropinum
Liborius-Gymnasium
funded by:
