FUTURE NOISE - Marta Górnicka & Studierende der Szenischen Forschung (RUB)

Future Noise

Talking about the power of shared experience, about a WE, in the theater also means giving the chorus back the political explosive power it already had in ancient theater. Hardly anyone has reinterpreted this form as radically as Marta Górnicka. The Polish director is one of the most influential voices of political theater in Europe - and her impressive choral works have been a powerful voice on our stage for many years.

As part of the Christoph Schlingensief Professorship, which she currently holds at the Ruhr University Bochum, she created the performance Future Noise with a group of young students of scenic research in Bochum. In addition to influences from Piscator's proletarian theater, Brecht's didactic plays and Meyerhold's biomechanics, the exceptional artist draws her inspiration not least from the biographies of the young performers. They ask: How can individual and collective resistance still be organized today in order to defend endangered democratic values?

An intense and powerful spoken word performance that sometimes reacts to the current news situation and looks at the world from the perspective of young people. What does it mean to be young today? Is the future still conceivable today? Or do we first have to radically reimagine the world?

The noise that announces the future in this performance becomes an unmistakable statement by the choir, whose collective force no one can easily escape.

The choir speaks - loudly, precisely and unmistakably: If noise is what democracy sounds like: Bring the future noise!

It is no coincidence that Future Noise opens our season on the 30th anniversary of the "Schuppen": many years ago, a cooperation with the Ruhr University Bochum on a choir project in theater studies marked an important initiation moment for the independent scene in NRW. Numerous groups emerged from this collaboration - such as kainkollektiv or Anna Kpok - which found their artistic home in the Ringlokschuppen in the following years.

This programmatic combination of artistic research, political aspirations and collective practice still characterizes the Ringlokschuppen today. The collaboration between an advanced, internationally successful artist and young performers is an exemplary reflection of how we understand our theater program - as a dialogue between young, up & coming and established, contemporary, relevant positions in the performing arts.

With Future Noise, the 30th anniversary brings us full circle to the beginning of the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr's time as an impulse-giving theater in the Ruhr area.

by and with: Smilla Ann, Anjali Bröcker, Ayla Buchholz, Katharina Frölich, Cosmo Glanc, Judith Grytzka, Lukas Huber, Agnetha Jaunich, Jan Kollenbach, Lisa Schäfer, Camila Scholtbach, Lioba Sombetzki and Johanna Sowka

Christoph Schlingensief Guest Professorship: Marta Górnicka

The Christoph Schlingensief Guest Professorship was initiated in 2015 by the Kunststiftung NRW for the Master's degree course in Scenic Research at the Ruhr University Bochum. It is awarded annually to internationally recognized artists from the fields of theater and performance. The aim of the artistic professorship is to impart experiential knowledge and working methods to students from an applied perspective.