8. 12., 22: 00 @ SC Gallery 10. 12., 21:00 @ &TD big hall Rehearsing Attention is inviting spectators to watch performances with special viewing tasks. We will articulate ways of noting this experience collectively during separate discussion sessions. Tasks are often used in performance-making to generate material. Inverting this logic and making it a principle of watching enhances our engagement as spectators and (re)opens the question of the labour of the spectator, a question that seems all that relevant in the contemporary performing arts. Rehearsing Attention is inviting spectators to watch performances with special viewing tasks and reflect this experience during separate discussion sessions. The performances we will be watching with tasks in Ganz festival are No Title by Mette Edvardsen and Compass by Petra Hrašćanec, Saša Božić and Simone Aughterlony. Inge Gappmaier is a choreographer, dancer, dance-pedagog and -researcher based in Vienna. Nina Gojić is a dramaturge based in Zagreb, mostly working in contemporary dance, devised theatre and interdisciplinary projects. She writes essays, screenplays and performance texts. Diana Meheik works as a dramaturge at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. She has also written and adapted plays for stage (Rose of Jericho, Mania, Chronicles of Travnik). They started this research project during Tanzplattform Deutschland in Frankfurt/Main, 2016 as part of the working group At Work. Curious about the labour of the spectator, they continued their research by developing tasks for spectators in order to examine different ways of watching performances and structuring...

7. 12., 16-19:30, Galerija SC, lecture and talk In conversation moderated by Nataša Rajković, Matthias Lilienthal will share his rich experience, inspirations, references, motivations for work, curatorial strategies and production models. Matthias Lilienthal was a chief dramaturge in the German theatre Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz under the leadership of Frank Castrofor from 1992 to 1999. There, he started a collaboration with Christoph Marthaler and Christoph Schlingensief. He was the artistic director of the prestige Theater der Welt festival in 2002 in Bonn, Düsseldorf, Köln, Duisburg and in Mannheim in 2014. In 2002., he developed the project X Wohnungen, a format that has since toured different Belin neighborhoods, and adapted for Caracas, Istanbul, São Paulo, Warsaw, Johannesburg and other world cities. From 2003 to 2012, he was the artistic director of HAU (Hebbel am Ufer) in Berlin. Since September 2012, Lilienthal was a guest professor of Home Workspace Program in Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. In 2015, Matthias Lilienthal has become the director of MünchnerKammerspiele. Within apap-Performing Europe 2020 project, Student Centre Zagreb, in collaboration with the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU. Supported by Goethe-Institut...