SEDIMENTS emerge when substances are mixed. SEDIMENTS is an international, student-organized dramaturgy festival. Master’s students from Frankfurt, Gießen, Paris, Brussels, Helsinki and Oslo come together to share their artistic works and dramaturgical practices and discuss yesterday's, today’s and tomorrow’s theatre.

SEDIMENTS show similarities and differences. The festival aims for collaboration and dissent; reflecting diverse dramaturgical concepts from different environments. From each partner university, we invited one artistic work in progress to be shown publicly. Each performance will be discussed, alongside other topics concerning dramaturgy and the dramaturge’s role. Together, we want to explore theoretical and practical questions through the concept of sediment: sediments represent things that have happened and shaped us, often unseen yet influential. How can we examine the layers of a work and build upon them? What do the different programs and their ecosystems have in common? How can we combine our methods and think ahead?

SEDIMENTS form a ground, a fertile soil. An additional workshop-program will build on what has sedimented before and discover what remains afterwards. Open spaces will allow students to discuss research questions spontaneously, test ideas and share methods.

Have a look at the program and join us for a rich exchange of ideas and collaborative creation!

PROGRAMM:
Works in Progress:
Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders: hold on to your clumsiness
Valentine Muller: Decadence, Transcendence
Odile Malet: My body is not my home
Ville Vuorikoski: Zero Point
Birgitte Maaike Feddersen: Unpopular Opinions
After each show there will be an aftertalk by one of the festival team members and the invited artists.

Reflections:
Hannah Launikovich: Resurrect your Darlings: Workshop on Recycled Dramaturgy
Anne Prea: Unsettling Sediment
Katja Luukanen: The Importance of Non-Dramaturgy Studies for a Dramaturg

Festival Team:
Nora Frizzi Auerbach, Charlotte Birkner-Behlen, Ben Denke, Katerina Kalantranaki, Caroline Lee-Jeong, Charlotte Pfingsten, Paula Sasse, Anton Svoboda, Nuria Zechlin, Antonia Zeich, Clemens Zoller

In cooperation with students from HTA, JLU Gießen, ULB Brussels, Paris Nanterre University, UniArts Helsinki and KHiO Oslo.
The festival could not have been possible without the help of other students, among them: Leon Post, Christina Schulte, Barabás Szigeti, Nika Warias.

We want to give thanks to the HTA, the Frankfurt LAB, Goethe University and all the CDPR-partner universities for their great support in realizing SEDIMENTS.