NORDWIND Platform and Festival
Nordwind Platform and Festival is an international festival for performance, dance, theatre, music and visual art.[1] It was founded in Berlin in 2006 and from 2007 it has taken place every two years. Since 2016, Nordwind Platform has also organised projects that run outside the festival programme throughout the entire year.
The festival has partners in Berlin and Hamburg including the Volksbühne Berlin, the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art and the Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik.[2]
History[edit]
The festival was founded in 2006 in Berlin by Ricarda Ciontos, who has been the artistic director ever since.[3]
After the first small edition of the festival in 2006, which had one performance venue and an audience of around 450 people, the second edition took place in 2007 across seven locations in Berlin and had 3000 visitors. In 2009, the festival took place for the duration of eight festival days in the Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) and counted more than 4000 attendees.[4]
In 2011, Nordwind took place in two cities for the first time. First in Berlin for ten days in Dock 11, Radialsystem V and the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, and subsequently the productions were presented at Kampnagel in Hamburg for one week.[5] A total of 120 artists from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia presented their productions at more than 70 events, attended by more than 7500 people.
Thematic Focus[edit]
The thematic focus of the sixth edition of the festival in 2015, was the relationship between Europe and Russia.[6]
With Songs of a Melting Iceberg – Displaced without Moving (7 November – 18 December 2017), NORDWIND Festival explored a multi-layered, innovative and contemporary definition of identity by bringing together Arctic, Nordic and African art and performance positions.[7]
From 1 to 7 December 2017, the "Museum of Martyrs" project took place in Studio 1 of the Kunstquartier Bethanien, controversially discussed by the public and the media.[8][9]
From 8 to 11 February 2018, NORDWIND was focusing once more on Russian Art with the Russian-German talk and performance series Nowy Mir at Kampnagel Hamburg. The Russian-German talk show NOWY MIR (НОВЫЙ МИР) aims to connect representatives of both countries to discuss the controversial and multi-layered relationship between Russia and Germany.
Funding[edit]
NORDWIND was funded over the years by several national and international funding bodies such as the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Nordic embassies and many more.
References[edit]
- ↑ "NORDWIND Platform and Festival - EFFE". www.effe.eu.
- ↑ Hamburg, Theater Kampnagel. "Nordwind".
- ↑ Enache, Irina. "Nordic Arts in Berlin – from concept to cultural management" In: ArtClue. 14th March 2012. Retrieved on 14th March 2018
- ↑ NORDWIND "About Us" Retrieved on 14 March 2018
- ↑ Kästner, Irmela "Dem Biest auf der Spur" In Die Welt 4 December 2011, Retrieved on 14th March 2018 (German)
- ↑ Hindahl, Philipp. "Laut, lustig, unverschämt" In Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben, 18th December 2015. Retrieved on 14th March 2018. (German)
- ↑ Schlagenwerth, Michaela. „Verdichtete Tanzelite“, in Berliner Zeitung 2 November 2017
- ↑ "Berliner Ausstellung feiert Bataclan-Attentäter als „Märtyrer“ in Focus (German magazine) 4th December 2017. Retrieved on 15th March 2018 (German)
- ↑ Reber, Simone. "Theatralischer Grusel im "Märtyrermuseum" on Deutschlandfunk 29 November 2017. Retrieved on 15th March 2018. (German)
External links[edit]
- Nordwind Platform and Festival Website
- Northern wilds: Nordwind Festival in EXBERLINER, 10.11.2015
- Nordic Arts in Berlin – from concept to cultural management in ArtClue Eastern Europe Art Magazine, 14.03.2012
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