NXTSTP, The Second Generation
The Culture Programme of the European Union renews its support for NXTSTP by attributing a second term 5 year funding to NXTSTP, The Second Generation

NXTSTP is a network European performing arts festivals that came into being in 2007 to provide an extra shot of energy to the co-production and circulation of the performing arts in Europe. Over a period of four years, NXTSTP supported 31 projects from 27 companies of individual artists from 12 European countries, representing hundreds of performance dates. In 2012, the first term of NXTSTP concludes, but another is already under construction.

NXTSTP, the Second Generation was awarded a 5 year funding (2012-2016) under the Strand 1.1 'Multi-annual cooperation projects' from the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Partners: alkantara festival (Lisbon), Baltoscandal Festival (Rakvere), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, Noorderzon (Groningen), Dublin Theatre Festival, steirischer herbst festival (Graz), Théâtre National de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (project leader)

Eszter Salamon Budapest / Berlin

TALES OF THE BODILESS

How can you get off your body? Can you leave it for a while? How long can you stay out of yourself …without losing it all together.

TALES OF THE BODILESS explore a condition that is hard to imagine before you experience it: a world without human bodies. Four stories unfold four situations in which humans are a past, and hence, no longer central. In this fiction without science, bodies turn into 'foam' or become one with the landscape until they transform into colorful dust. Humans evaporate in the memory of the species that outlives them.

Eszter Salamon’s daring new piece takes you on a journey through regions whose main property is a certain tangible sensation. Each place composes a movement of voices, sound, light, and space: from sinking to dissolution, from urge to aggression, from joy to explosion. In order for your body to enter a bodiless world, this theater had to send its body - the stage – on vacation. There is not much to see on the stage. The habitual hierarchy of senses is unsettled: listening overthrows vision and sight. The body of the spectators becomes the battleground of sensations; invoking them evolves in time, and prevents everything from being given all at once.

NXTSTP partners: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), steirischer herbst festival (Graz)

www.eszter-salamon.com

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