The Bochum version of Bernadette La Hengst’s “Unconditional Base Warm-Up Singing” will be accompanied by two discussion events on the topic of growth, utopia, and democracy from an economic, cultural-philosophical, and feminist perspective. Group base warm-up singing will be led by the unconditional chorus director Bernadette La Hengst and alternating experts will disco/uss with one another and with the audience.

Diskotieren fürs Grundeinsingen
29. June 2013, 5:00pm
with: Ute Fischer (professor in social science) und Christian Siefkes (computer scientist and author)
and others
„Chez Icke“ Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr

Diskotieren fürs Grundeinsingen
05. July 2013, 5:00pm
with: Adrienne Goehler (curator and journalist) und Antje Schrupp (journalist and political scientist)
„Chez Icke“ Schauspielhaus Bochum

Artistic direction: Gesine Danckwart
Production management: Jörg Karrenbauer, Britta Hansen
Set: raumlabor berlin (Benjamin Förster-Baldenius with Florian Stirnemann)
Costumes: Lotte Sawatzki
Chatdevelopment / programming: Invisible Playground
Lighting design / technical direction: Sven Nichterlein
Conception interactive media: Can Elbasi
Videostreaming: 3Q Medien GmbH

Chez Icke at Impulse was developed for Impulse Theater Biennale 2013 in cooperation with Urbane Künste Ruhr.
A production by danckwart&hansen.film in coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Supported by Telekom, 25p *cinesupport, mdex, Orange Tec, Rheinfels, Sinalco and König Pilsener.

In former times, the sons, and sometimes the daughters of the nobility and the upper classes went on grand journeys. To cap off their education, they spent months or even years on a journey, they got to know other countries, other customs, and they came back more mature in character. This noble gesture might be lost – but extended backpack trips during semester breaks and cultural tourism are a reverberation of this tradition. But while discount airlines jet all over the world, the immediate surroundings often remain uncharted territory.
Impulse Theater Biennale 2013 is throwing itself into the fray, trying to fill the gap by connecting its performance cities on the Rhine and the Ruhr with its own educational journeys. Each of the four locations has a special day in the festival program – reachable by bus and combi-ticket.
Not only does this give you a condensed overview of what notable independent theater works have emerged in the last two years in the German-speaking world. But each bus also has its own tour guide: lectures, analyses, performative talks – about the role of migration
in NRW, about the question of German thought, about xenophobia, and also about the way that pop music contributes to the formation of identity.
Anyone who wants to hear has to travel – this time the festival’s theory program is taking place on the street.

28. June
From Bochum to Mülheim a.d. Ruhr
Departure: 5:30 PM
Schauspielhaus
with Dorothee Wenner (curator / documentary filmmaker)
to Theater HORA / Jerome Bel and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM)

From Düsseldorf to Mülheim a.d. Ruhr
Departure: 5:30 PM
Salon des Amateurs
with Branko Šimić (director) and Eva Maria Stüting (scientist in theatre studies / dramaturge)
to Theater HORA / Jérôme Bel and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM)

29. June
From Bochum to Cologne
Departure: 6:00 PM
Schauspielhaus
with Phil Collins (visual artist)
to andcompany&Co., Christian Garcia (and Chez Icke)
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and incl. Chez Icke 1:15 AM)

From Düsseldorf to Cologne
Departure: 4:30 PM
Salon des Amateurs
with Barbara Vinken (professor for literary studies)
to Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt / Matthias Meppelink, andcompany& Co. and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM)

05. July
From Cologne to Düsseldorf
Departure: 6:00 PM
studiobühneköln
with the Chez Icke Team
to Theater im Bahnhof, Tamer Yiğit / Branka Prlić (and Chez Icke)
(Return journey: 11:00 PM and incl. Chez Icke 1:00 AM)

06. July
From Cologne to Bochum
Departure: 6:00 PM
studiobühneköln
with Oliver Marchart (philosopher / politics- and art-theorist)
to She She Pop, Damian Rebgetz and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM und 1:15 AM)

From Mülheim a.d. Ruhr to Bochum
Departure: 4:00 PM
Ringlokschuppen
with Adrienne Goehler (curator and journalist / co-author of 1000€ für Jeden)
to Bernadette La Hengst, She She Pop and Chez Icke
(Return journey: 11:00 PM und 1:00 AM)

With: Martin Berg (Goethe-Institut), Ulrike Haß (Theaterwissenschaftlerin), Martin Heering (Bundesverband Freier Theater), Mieke Matzke (Theaterwissenschaftlerin und Mitglied von She She Pop), Kathrin Tiedemann (Künstlerische Leitung FFT), Thilo Wittenbecher (mime centrum)

Concept: She She Pop
By and with: Sebastian Bark, Johanna Freiburg, Barbara Gronau, Annett Gröschner, Fanni Halmburger, Alexandra Lachmann, Katharina Lorenz, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Peggy Mädler, Ilia Papatheodorou, Wenke Seemann, Berit Stumpf and Nina Tecklenburg
Dramaturgical assistance: Kaja Jakstat
Coordination / assistance: Veronika Steininger
Set design: Sandra Fox
Costumes: Lea Søvsø
Lighting design: Sven Nichterlein
Sound: Florian Fischer
Production / PR: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Tour management: Xenia Leydel
Management: Elke Weber
Graphic arts: Tobias Trost
Voluntary assistant director: Eilika Leibold, Anja Predeick

A coproduction by She She Pop with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, FFT Düsseldorf and brut Vienna.
Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs, the Behörde für Kultur, Sport und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Fonds Darstellende Künste and the Rudolf Augstein foundation.

This event is made possible by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK as part of their program supporting guest performances, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as well as the State Ministries for Arts and Culture.