Down to Earth – A Festival As Experiment

In July 2020, DOWN TO EARTH took place for the first time. Due to the measures taken to contain the Covid19 pandemic, the project was not implemented as a festival but as a research lab for the artists and curators and as a public showing.

The participants used the time of crisis and pause to deepen the ideas behind the original festival concept - sustainability, possibilities of a hopeful future, solidarity - and to adapt them to the current crisis. This also implied a reflection on their own working methods and the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on the performative arts. With the Research Lab, we tried to work sustainably for what will come in the future and to counter the current tendency of (over)production of virtual content. Our work within the Lab was documented in the form of texts, videos and photos. The Research Lab is to be the basis for the next and larger edition of DOWN TO EARTH.

In the frame of the public showing, our main topics were discussed with the audience and the first artistic works resulting from the cooperation were shown:

 Curators:: Juan Gabriel Harcha, Elisabeth Leopold, Felicitas Zeeden.

A detailed review of Time to Meet can be found here:  Tanzschreiber - A Proposal for Change