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Curriculum

Curriculum

The Summer Theater Intensive aims to foster creative engagement between students and a wide variety of multidisciplinary artists working in theater and performance in Berlin. This rigorous four-week program explores techniques in the devising and creating of original theater works, and immerses students in the city’s theater and performance culture through regular outings to performances, museums, galleries, and other cultural venues; visits to artistic and historical landmarks; and meetings with artists.

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Coursework

Students study a variety of “methods” of creation with Berlin-based artists and, under their guidance, create original theater works. Students also explore the historical and contemporary richness of Berlin’s theatrical culture with faculty from Bard College Berlin.

Program Directors
Jonathan Rosenberg, Bard College
Dawn Akemi Saito, Fordham University

  • Course Themes

    Course Themes


    The work in the studio is organized around a series of distinct themes:

    1. Space
    2. Text and Composition
    3. Body and Movement/Choreography
    4. Sound and Image

    The program provides 20 hours a week of instruction, master classes/workshops, and lectures. In addition, there are guided rehearsals, showings, and feedback time each week. The students attend theater and other performances three to five times weekly, as well as other cultural offerings such as visits to museums and galleries and architectural and historical walking tours of the city.
  • Past Performance Videos

    Past Performance Videos


    The 2019 live performances can be viewed on Youtube:
    • Zeitgrenzen
    • Do you Miss Me, Major Tom
    • 3 X 3
    • 3 X 1
  • Faculty List

    Faculty List


    Florian Becker, Managing Director and Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Bard College Berlin
    Marco Brosolo, Composer and Sound Designer
    Eva Burghardt, Dancer and Choreographer
    Julia Hart, Director
    Helgard Haug, Rimini Protokoll
    Stephan Kaegi, Rimini Protokoll
    Yuko Kaseki, Butoh Performer and Choreographer
    Wojtek Klemm, Director
    Anna Kohler, Senior Lecturer Theater Arts, MIT
    Henrik Kuhlmann, Dramaturg
    Peggy Maedler, She She Pop
    Maria Milisavljevic, Playwright
    Robyn Orlin, Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance
    Sean Patten, Gob Squad
    Judith Sánchez Ruiz, Dancer and Choreographer
    Aya Soika, Professor of Art History, Bard College Berlin
    Sharon Smith, Gob Squad
    Nina Tecklenburg, Interrobang, Gob Squad, She She Pop
    Sarah Thom, Gob Squad
    Bastian Trost, Gob Squad
    Daniel Wetzel, Rimini Protokoll
    Christina Wheeler, Singer, composer and sound artist
    Simon Will, Gob Squad
Cultural Program

Cultural Program

The Summer Theater Intensive also provides a cultural and intellectual context for the work being done in the studio, in the process making the city of Berlin a subject and creative force for the program and not simply its location. 

Cultural Program

The cultural program takes three forms:

Performances
Students make frequent (several times a week) visits to Berlin’s rich performance offerings. These range from the large city theaters (Volksbühne, Schaubühne, Deutsches Theater) to the alternative spaces of the “Freie Szene,” or Free Scene (HAU, Sophiensaele, Dock 11). In some cases students will have the opportunity to meet with the artists after the performance to discuss their work and creative process.

Talks
Practitioners and theorists lecture on topics relating to the arts and performance in Germany.

Berlin
Once a week the students explore some aspect of Berlin’s artistic and historical identity—for example, an architectural walking tour of Berlin led by BCB art historian Aya Soika. In some cases these explorations will provide the genesis for pieces the students are creating.

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