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TWR030 - On Dialogue (with Brenno K. Russo)

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Simon Bronikowski
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Marije Nie
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Brenno Kaschner Russo

(recorded and streamed on 3 May, 2021)

„Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven’t really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.“
David Bohm, On Dialogue

In this special episode Brenno invites us to talk about and practice Dialogue in the tradition of David Bohm. We also invoke Martin Buber and his tales of the chassidim. We touch a lot of not strictly theatrical topics, that nevertheless maybe connect to theatre and arts.

Brenno co-founded dialogues.one – “a community and open source method for listening and speaking to each other for drafting future scenarios”

The cover image is of course Bruegel’s Tower of Babel – just upside down!

Books:
David Bohm, On Dialogue
Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim


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TWR028 - Playtime (with Futur3)

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Simon Bronikowski
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Marije Nie
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André Erlen
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Stefan Kraft

(recorded and streamed on 19 April, 2021)

In TWR006 we spoke with André about his professional history and the work of Futur3: https://whiteroom-pod.com/twr006-future-experiments/

After one year we meet again with theatre group Futur3 (Cologne, DE), i.e. with the Artistic Directors Stefan Kraft and André Erlen.

After introducing the podcast, we’re resurrecting the category “Secret Word of Today”. We speak about how we are, strategies against the Machine and strategies for Hybrid Forms; we talk Zoom performances.
We touch the topic of how to treat each other in work, and the open wounds in the history of independent theatre.
In the end we speak about Theatre & Games, which according to André, is his only hope for continuity (cum grano salis).

Conclusions: In theatre, it’s never what it is.

We also have some spiritual aide by Jean-Claude Carriére and Frank Zappa.

The title and the cover image of course pay homage to the sublime Jacques Tati!


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TWR027 - Cheers for Fears (with Sina Schneller & Jascha Sommer)

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Simon Bronikowski
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Marije Nie
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Sina Schneller
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Jascha Sommer

the white room – conversations on theatre #27
(recorded and streamed on 5 April, 2021)

In the 27th episode we speak with Sina and Jascha, founders of the network Cheers for Fears. After Simon spills some water into the wine of the concept “SARS-Cov-2-testing for events” we speak about infectious networks, cold and warm, virtual villages, loneliness, vulnerability and magic, about the risk of encounter; and more.

“Say it aloud / I’m lost and proud / You’re welcome here / Cheers for Fears!”
CHEERS FOR FEARS is an initiative launched in 2013 with the aim of intensifying the exchange between young artists in North Rhine-Westphalia and their academies and stimulating artistic collaborations. The founding impulse of the initiative resulted from the desire to exchange work strategies, aesthetics and perspectives across academies and disciplines.

Show notes
CHEERS FOR FEARS – http://www.cheersforfears.de/
Peter H. Diamandis – A false sense of security… – https://www.diamandis.com/blog/false-sense-security (Simon)
Cheryl Giles, radical care – https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/11/cheryl-giles/ (Marije)

Cover photo (c) Sven Neidig, 2016

Books

Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble
Morgan Scott Peck – The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace (Marije)
Eugenio Barba – Theatre: Solitude, Craft, Revolt (Marije)


From now on we will gather in the white room fortnightly on Mondays at 20:00 (CET). Join us live: https://whiteroom-pod.com/live

We are happy to receive any (constructive) feedback and criticism, corrections, comments, questions and notes: whiteroom (at) whiteroom-pod.com. You can also comment below. We will try to reflect on this input in the podcast.

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