28 min listen
with Samara Hersch (Theatre maker, Australia)
with Samara Hersch (Theatre maker, Australia)
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Mar 19, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Kira Kirsch speaks with Australian theatre maker Samara Hersch, whose interactive online performance celebrated it's Austrian premiere at brut's imagetanz festival 2021. Body of Knowledge at Home is invited to Impulse Festival 2021.
Samara Hersch is a theatre maker, director and teaching artist whose practice explores the intersection of contemporary performance and community engagement.She recently completed her Masters at Das Theatre in Amsterdam. She is interested in cross-generational discourses and non-hierarchical forms of knowledge exchange. Her works toured internationally among others at Auawirleben Festival Bern and Münchner Kammerspiele and have received several awards: for example the Jury Prize and the audience award at the Züricher Theaterspektakel. Body of Knowledge was realized in the framework oft he European Network; Be SpectACTive!.
www.samarahersch.com
About Body of Knowledge at Home:
With Body of Knowledge – At Home the theater comes into your home: Connected with spectators and teenagers from Australia, a performance about the big and small questions of life and how the future unfolds. How much closeness is possible between people who live faraway from each other, who do not know each other, who are separated by continents, cultures and generations? What happens when adults in Vienna talk over the phone to teenagers in Australia about vital and intimate topics such as sexuality, shame, sorrow, age, death and the future of the planet? And how does theatre work in the absence of physical presence?
The performance, Body of Knowledge, in which spectators inside the theatre room were connected via telephones with teenagers from all over the world and in the process built a stage set themselves, toured successfully on stages in Australia and Europe in 2019. Now, Australian artist Samara Hersch has created a version of her work in which viewers can connect with the young international cast from the comfort of their own homes: The spectators are digitally connected with each other via their own laptops.
Samara Hersch is a theatre maker, director and teaching artist whose practice explores the intersection of contemporary performance and community engagement.She recently completed her Masters at Das Theatre in Amsterdam. She is interested in cross-generational discourses and non-hierarchical forms of knowledge exchange. Her works toured internationally among others at Auawirleben Festival Bern and Münchner Kammerspiele and have received several awards: for example the Jury Prize and the audience award at the Züricher Theaterspektakel. Body of Knowledge was realized in the framework oft he European Network; Be SpectACTive!.
www.samarahersch.com
About Body of Knowledge at Home:
With Body of Knowledge – At Home the theater comes into your home: Connected with spectators and teenagers from Australia, a performance about the big and small questions of life and how the future unfolds. How much closeness is possible between people who live faraway from each other, who do not know each other, who are separated by continents, cultures and generations? What happens when adults in Vienna talk over the phone to teenagers in Australia about vital and intimate topics such as sexuality, shame, sorrow, age, death and the future of the planet? And how does theatre work in the absence of physical presence?
The performance, Body of Knowledge, in which spectators inside the theatre room were connected via telephones with teenagers from all over the world and in the process built a stage set themselves, toured successfully on stages in Australia and Europe in 2019. Now, Australian artist Samara Hersch has created a version of her work in which viewers can connect with the young international cast from the comfort of their own homes: The spectators are digitally connected with each other via their own laptops.
Released:
Mar 19, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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with Samara Hersch (Theatre maker, Australia): Kira Kirsch speaks with Australian theatre maker Samara Hersch, whose interactive online performance celebrated it's Austrian premiere at brut's imagetanz festival 2021. Body of Knowledge at Home is invited to Impulse Festival 2021. Samara Hersch is... by New Art on Air – Der Podcast von brut Wien