NORDWIND Festival 2013
NORDWIND ANNOUNCES THE FIRST PRODUCTIONS/ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL
Around 250 artists, a whole 23 days, in three cities. The NORDWIND Festival takes place this year for the fifth time and once again shows how diverse it is with an array of artistic genres combining in a very rich festival programme. So that you don’t have to wait until the end of November, here is something to whet your appetite with the first Nordic and Baltic artists.
The festival opens in Dresden on 22 November with the renowned Latvian director Alvis Hermanis and his celebrated production Long Life – humane and unsparing but with heartfelt insights into a subject that awaits us all - growing old. In Stalker, the Norwegian theatre company Verk takes us to a place in which the normal laws of physics no longer apply, and the project Ljodahått presents traditional Norwegian poetry, blending elements of rock, folk, jazz and pop, bound together with deep intensity. In addition, in Entertainment Island, the international performance group Oblivia from Helsinki reflects the dazzling heights and the murky depths of the entertainment industry. In his solo performance Executed Stories the Finn Juha Valkeapää invites us to a ‘Last Meal’ while in Ten journeys to a place where nothing happens he contemplates the fundamental questions of life with the musician Taito Hoffrén. In his exhibition Eraser & Ruler the Icelandic artist Egill Sæbjörnsson combines an array of media: sound, music, sculpture and video in curious ways. Meanwhile the Lithuanian director Oskaras Korsunovas proves that the explosive themes in Maxim Gorky‘s Nachtasyl (The Lower Depths) have lost none of their currency, while in TRAVAIL by the Swedish choreograph and performer Alma Söderberg sound, movement and speech combine in a fascinating manner.
