Opera classic to rock music it was one outdoor celebration after the other. It seemed that even politicians were hopeful that a bit of glitz and glamour from the abundant cultural events might rub off diverting the attention from other lesson music topics at a busy little building in the festivals go on zat spoke about why its been a dance the big names are all their songs plenty of smaller ones that have joined the ranks tens of thousands of pleasure seekers trek to the cities in countryside looking for enjoyment and whatever enlightenment they may discover we take a look at this never ending summers cultural highlights in our festival special. For starters the dancing in august festival in the german capital. Our reporter elisabetta galaga. Spellbound as dancers and acrobats showed their stuff. Lieutenant in the. Singular extreme actions. The show. And see is more than just a group of dancers there accomplished fearless acrobats. The breathtaking performances of these action heroes are choreographed by elizabeth streb. She has been working with extreme and experimental dance and performance since the mid one nine hundred seventy s. She founded her company streb extreme action in new york in one nine hundred eighty five for many years she took part herself i broke my nose eleven times i have a weird finger. But i never had an injury that made me not perform. Work involves risk it can be downright dangerous but the delight in pushing the limits prevails. In the body has so much potential you know you have hands you have the side you have the side so we try to use everything that we have you know to just see what else we can do you know theres Something Else we can do besides walk our two feet. They want to fly and that means learning to fall in fact fall hard and in spectacular fashion. Strips heroes are not the only extremists at the festival. Dance in august is celebrating its thirtieth year with events across the city. Our reporter is off to see another aesthetic radical at a rehearsal of her work portrait of myself. As my father norma chip omeara is from zimbabwe and lives in new york this is her first time in berlin. This is life the totality of life everything you think of as life. Thats what dance is. From politics to economy to culture and that includes boxing the sport fascinates chip mohammad ali is our hero and she sees the boxing ring as a space of freedom. A place where black men can be themselves and be able to dominate perhaps systematic oppression. The work is about her father who disappeared from her life when she was five it explores masculinity and the african man from various perspectives. The big the big is the. Triple mirror deploy stereotypes and cliches to critique western notions of africa and black men. People come into the room to see their work with. Baggage already they come into the room with the expectation of what is them by way of what is africa and so the work is also in many ways trying to untangle and destroy some of those expectations. When his hopes to gloss of experimental dance over the years in this festival and audiences just. Theres a lot going on in modern dance. Because talent. To find the right key to open that box the contemporary what is happening now in the world that key seems to have been found the program is amazing with a wide range of performances some of the best the world has to offer. How soon are you by marcus no route from spain had its german premiere at the festival. The protagonists in this piece are lost and confused in their world. Across glasgows have in the name of progress of wanting a comfortable life with all the resources we are destroying with the things that have been given to us the ability to understand and communicate and share with each other and these are things we now have to try and relearn and reformulate because they have stopped functioning and theyre out of uniform. Its in among political vision in which technology destroys humanity. The first think of progress is necessary but where we actually heading. Around posthuman is put on in theory but gripping show in fact the entire festival is gripping and occasionally undeserving as it moves beyond physical and artistic ballet. Next from berlin to buy light. Are you a wagner fan then you need to go to the bio Light Festival to explore his legacy like our reporter who is celebrating a kind of anniversary hands class a fun book has been coming here for. Or thirty years now this time for an innovative and blue shield rendition of lohengrin was i. Was. Known greens well just being in melancholy believe. It or sad centrum testicle comes to me a body all just a couple nailed down and rivers and the way. They explained their inspiration at an impromptu press conference. Was. Just the idea for the set came to me when i saw plates of delft porcelain. On. The rest of all thats. It evoked all these images just below zero the blue of it dominates the stage business up to. Six yards is lohengrin has been a guest in my studio for six years it was not playing all the time looked at it but it certainly dominated the acoustic airspace and of course it inspired me. Its up to me so i suppose in spirit you. Know how it is a superstar among german contemporary painters often associated with a New Life School his work sell for a fortune worldwide this is the first time he and his wife have tried their hand at opera. Its been our first direct hands on experience though of course weve seen many operas here and we listen to wagner and the studio but there we werent engaging with directly in the paintings it was more of a subtle subconscious influence as well as i floss and or. Does this letter stands with as well including you sometimes will find people in costumes and. Pictures like you see in this production. Called. Theyre also allusions to on a theological motifs. Fetal feathers and caps with beaks. And then theres the cosmos of months. Put in solitary all thinking the strange obscure creatures gather in this mysterious fantasy realm. It may well have been a bit confusing for the directed to the american you for sharon who took over the production only after the main features of the staging had been decided on. Deity fugazi when i first saw the wings in the sketches i thought this is site he received here is not entirely human but position somewhere between man and man as at first sufficient mannish when martin is going to be back on that bizarre and interesting and he can research and we decided to leave it open for the audience to interpret and listen off after just to become. And audiences are used to puzzling over the meaning of each new interpretation of wagners lohengrin it premiered in a scene fifty in fine but has seen no fewer than Ten Productions hearing by voight since eighty ninety four. There was a symbolist one by guts retreat in one nine hundred seventy nine. Twenty years later keith warners most apocalyptic. Was. The last production by hans no interest dates from twenty ten. He dressed the chorus up as rats and told the story of no incremental such as an experiment about love and trust in a world devoid of emotion. The premier met with lots of blues but the production has since become a bit of a cult. For you for sure on the opera is about the emancipation of a strong woman in a crude and rude mans world. Israel is about to be burnt at the stake wrongly condemned for killing her brother. She helps someone will swing by and save her. Can now be by in hexham yeah its like a witch hunt i just psych i got to me and this is key because this is cya he has to be transformative is that most overblown and. Not truly him thats not being an act one i think that perhaps lohengrin is going to be the one to say. Not just but society as a whole is a sum of the guns it has as shaft from that right from the start nail and rolls i had placed an electricity pylon in the middle of the seventeenth century setting. This is my thought was we see here a society that once had electricity or energy and has lost it and im lost its drive yet and handed it over to some god. And now is waiting for that energy to return to the world in the very its a common view of. London is now and then a tradition in blue overalls is going to restore the power supply. This is the Forest Retreat where people should have been prepared for the real he took it on at the last moment after Roberto Alagna backed out but challenged jumped at the opportunity looked at the wagner leave for wagner lovers this is mental impulse but you cant say no i think this very seriously and give my oh my best this and i certainly hope we dont have a power failure health. Was on the contrary the parish tennis power from the lingering electrified the audience. Looked like to his blue future embodied light. And we have lots more to show you on facebook check it out. Its no secret anymore the young euro classics festival is the place to discover tomorrow stars its a classical singing reporter Molina Luskin was inspired by all the Young Musicians meeting up to share their passion. Every summer the average age of musicians and the concert hall suddenly louis its when the best you from around the world come here to balance resent the scope behind me and the concept house we wonder what motivates them and do they bring their that best politics into the orchestra. We meet up with two members of a South African orchestra. Or music is a great investment. No public open transfer to the people the jews will get easily hi im going eight oclock im from cape town and take me as you go. But i think. You know the most beautiful thing about i was just a sort of brings together people that never actually. And the. Comes in because you know all of a sudden. Youre sitting next to somebody. You know two thousand case away from you that you would have never met. And she started out offering musical workshops for young people across all ethnic and social boundaries the orchestra emerged out of that and its now touring europe. And even in our present day there are many social differences that we experience because of the past. And now you know moving forward and i find that playing in this orchestra. All of that it goes away because music becomes the most important thing. Is celebrating the hundredth birthday of Nelson Mandela he dreamed of a society in which all people would have their place regardless of background race or color if you didnt mind the last vision into reality its literally vision come true our little. Know orchestra as the European UnionYouth Orchestra under twenty musicians from twenty eighty new Member States unite according to your opinion tradition and make music during a critical time in the year. And im french and im playing cello. And you think im from the netherlands and if. Im forever. And im from the netherlands im caitlin miles im from the u. K. And i play the trumpet. Sounded in one nine hundred seventy six the e. U. You thought. Destroy has been a cultural ambassador for the European Union for more than four decades but its facing changes. I think what i wish for europe is that its keeping its unity how do you feel about the move from london to ferrero because the headquarter is moving back sort of coming out is this something you talk about in the orchestra as a brit i feel very affected by this as to all of the other musicians in the orchestra from the quay. And not only for us thinking that at some point we were in the next couple years we were able to apply for the orchestra anymore. Many members of the ensemble are studying across europe it isnt clear what changes grex it will bring but their music doesnt know borders. Thing its a fact it could learn from a quest for why you can always find a solution even though there are so many people with different opinions how it should be but theres one boss waits for us is the conductor then and people can agree on its. The European Union might be facing lots of problems but the orchestra is doing fine it embodies International Cooperation its musicians are excellent and it attracts great conductors orchestra members often go on to professional careers for many its a stepping stone to success the young euro classic festival has been held here every year since two thousand its not as stuffy as some Classical Music events younger audiences dont feel out of place. Gendron a sedar conducted the orchestra in a performance of czech kosky is fifth symphony. The world may be seeing troubled times but the festival is one small reason for hope twelve hundred gifted youngsters from all over the globe come together to perform beautiful music in peace and harmony. Classical music stars in typical tourist sites a formula that seems to work not just for the mozart festival invertible but how do these many summer festivals and tie someone as prominent as avi at a time and why did the stars even bother we wanted to find out. The mandolin was a small delicate instrument. This man has brought a back to the world stage and is performing at the months out festival israeli virtual so obviously tile in a small Village Church inverts book. A regular player the worlds greatest orchestras his concert invites bird sells out immediately. The season of summer festival is always a joy because. For several reasons the press the reason of course you get to performing gorgeous places. Play could be hands are wonderful whether i think the audience is a big difference the audience the comfort summer festivals everything doubtless for is a bit more lunacy to be you know that the audience comes through really experience something that is festive very special that is out of the ordinary. Since one thousand twenty two the mozart festival has been drawing Classical Music fans diverts burge every summer. The name vote going on today as mozart always draws in a crowd the concert venues and Historic Sites are a popular attraction even without the music. There are over three hundred festivals like this in germany when the season is over for a concert in opera houses the summer festival bandwagon gets rolling. As a key source of revenue for many musicians and provides welcome publicity. Facing such competition the organizers of the festivals have a major challenge in hiring big names no easy task. To english i dont see additional costs the festival market is very dense its some fast of its run at the same time and the number of people who get a classical festivals is relatively limited here of course we have this impressive imperial hall at the cheapest frescoes and the budget has a new mine architecture. Theyre old jim switch attracting audiences but we still have to fill the venue is a dismissed and if. Its a struggle to attract both stars and visitors the mozart festival is trying to build up a loyal audience. In twenty fourteen year old victim and was the socalled artist a twelve the star artist of the festival. As a clarinet player composer and conductor he was involved in creating the program this year hes here with the Irish Chamber orchestra one strategy of the mozart festival is that musicians meet up here build networks and then come back you. Know would perform. Third of all one more roll for them and in the next five and. Even some experts are not familiar with mozarts compositions for the mandolin. When they got this invitation from the motes of fest they were thinking how can we can make a connection with mozart ten and that was the linker in those three little pieces. That i very rarely played because obviously when i make concerts even with voice its not never its never the right setting for your present is to live a lie can be these two little pieces by mozart and so the result is it is very rarely performed around the world so it was i thought it was a great opportunity. A relaxed audience and will stars who are not afraid to attempt something. Unusual thats the Great Attraction of the summer festivals. Its clearly a successful business idea too so a win win situation all round. And that was it well almost weve got one more for you and this ones got energy to say the least how about bucket instead of books the small village in northern germany with a population of about two thousand turns into a heavy metal paradise once a year its the biggest one of its kind worldwide a mecca for metal heads head banging at buck an open air if youve had enough of high culture than this is for you eighty five thousand metal and hard rock disciples and a week at music partying and beer. And might have a reputation for being the muddiest festival worldwide but this time it was anything goes to keep cool. See you next time on arts twenty one. Iran ones and insulated theocracy now a major power in the middle east. Durands fluence continues to grow politically economically and above all militarily. Does iran truly want the countrys opponents have their doubts iran from theocracy to regional superpower fifteen minutes on. 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