Opera classic to rock music it was one outdoor celebration after the other. It seems 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 less amusing topics with his name and a building in the festivals go on the world by a boy its the day against 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 and countrysides looking for enjoyment and whatever enlightenments 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 gala was. Hellbound as dancers and acrobats show their stuff. Ladies and gentlemen to see stands for singular extreme actions. The. Show. And see is more than just a group of dancers there are 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 that weird finger. But i never had an injury that made me not before. Work involves risk it can be downright dangerous but the delight in pushing the limits prevails. Human body has so much potential that i 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. My father not cheap im hearing is from zimbabwe 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 mohamed ali is her hero and she sees the boxing ring as a space of freedom. It is 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. Triple mirror deploy stereotypes and cliches to critique western notions of africa and black men. People into the room to see their work with. Baggage already they come into the room with the expectation of what is the way of what is africa and so the work is also in many ways trying to untangle and destroy some of those expectations. Brylin his hopes to gloss of experimental dance over the years in this festival and audiences just laughed. 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. 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 morale from spain had its german premiere at the festival. The protagonists in this piece are lost and confused in their world. Across the last calls out in the name of progress of wanting to comfortable life with all the resources we are destroying with the things that have been given to was 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. For. Its in a monolithic vision in which technology destroys humanity. Of course they got out of i guess 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 under that as it moves beyond physical and artistic bound. Next from berlin to by 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. 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 since fantastical comes to me a body all just couple nailed down and rivers in the way. They explained their inspiration at an impromptu press conference. Was. The idea for the set came to me when i saw plates of delft porcelain. The rest of all thats this goes if you feel that evoked all these images just below zero the blue that dominates the stage and so if you look at that sixty. Is lohengrin has been a guest in my studio for six years it was not playing all the time looked at but it certainly dominated the acoustic airspace and of course it inspired me. It sucked so i see those things periods kneel down hes 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 to handle pressure so they thought of the us and 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 wagner directly in the paintings it was more of a subtle subconscious influence as well as i flatten it or. Does his letters dont do this well you sometimes will find people in costumes in my pics. Like you see in this production. Here. There are also allusions to all of the logical motifs to. Feed off feathers and cups with beaks. And then there is the cosmos of months. Old 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 fire sharon who took over the production only after the main features of the staging had been decided on. The fugazi when i first saw the wings in the sketches i thought the society we see here is not entirely human but position somewhere between man and man as at first station mention martin you can be back on that bizarre and interesting and he could research and we decided to leave it open for the audience to interpret and to see 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 time but has seen no fewer than Ten Productions here in by void since eighty ninety four. There was a symbolist one by gets fried fish in one nine hundred seventy nine. Twenty years later keith warner has was apocalyptic. The last production five hundred snow in fairness dates from twenty ten. He dressed the chorus up as rats and told the story of noah in prison and elsa as an experiment about love and trust in a while devoid of emotion. The premier match with lots of booze but the production has since become a bit of a cult. To you for showing 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 help someone will swing by and save the. Can ill be biting hexham yeah its like a witch hunt. Thats psych i gotta mean and this is key because this is side he has to be transformed because that shaft most. Else not being not one i think that perhaps lohengrin is going to be the one to save not just but society as a whole as a son of the guns of his own shaft and from that right from the start nail and rose 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 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. Server laundry and it is now in there like trisha in blue overalls whos 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 milan yeah backed out but challenged jumped at the opportunity looked at the wagner leave for wagners eversley this is meant to limp as best you can say no i think this very seriously and give my oh my best and i certainly hope we dont have a power failure house. Oh i was going to contract to punish chinas powerful known green electrified the audience. Much to his blue future in my village. And we have lots more to show you on facebook check it out. Its no secret anymore the young euro classic festival is the place to discover tomorrow stars a classical scene reporter my linen list and was inspired by all the Young Musicians meeting up to share their passion. Every some of the average age of musicians and the concert Hall Saturday lewis its when the best you are casters from around the world come here to bet and to present the scope behind me and the concept house we wonder what motivates them and do they bring their that best politics into the orchestra. Ah. We meet up with two members of a South African orchestra. Or music is a great investment. I have no public up interested in the paper the new age music is easily im going to come from cape town and i thank me as you know. Well i think. You know the most beautiful thing about i was a child of brings together people that youve never actually been with and theyd be. 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. Me 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 in our present day there are many social differences that we experience because of the past weve had. And now you know moving forward and i find that playing in this orchestra. All of that it goes away because in the 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 mandelas vision into reality its literally his vision come true. Euro as the European UnionYouth Orchestra under trying to move from playing to a new Member States unite according to your pm tradition and make music during a critical time in the year. And im french and im playing cello. And getting to and from the netherlands and. Im forever meyer and im from the netherlands and miles im from the u. K. And i play the trumpet. Sounded in one thousand nine hundred fifty six the e. U. You thought. Istra 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 that is coming out is something you talk about in the orchestra as a brits i feel very affected by this as that 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 will be able to apply for the orchestra and in. Many members of the ensemble are studying across europe it is unclear what changes will bring but their music doesnt know borders. Thing its a fact you could learn from a quest for a lie you can always find the solution even though there are so many people with different opinions how it should be but theres one boss was for us is the conductor then and people can agree on. 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 hero classic festival has been held here every year since two thousand its not a stuffy as some Classical Music events younger audiences dont feel out of place. Gendron a sedar conducted the orchestra in a performance of czech cost his fifth symphony. Yes. 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 obvious talent and why do the stars even bother we wanted to find out. The mandolin is a small delicate instrument. This man has brought a back to the world stage and is performing at the mozart festival israeli virtual so obviously tile in a small 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 to 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 to votes berg every summer. The name vote going on a day as mozart always draws in a crowd the concert venue is an Historic Sites or 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. As you know to really shines Additional Market close the festival market is very different some festivals run at the same time and the number of people who go to classical festivals is relatively limited here of course we have this impressive imperial hall at the cheapest frescoes and the budget has a new man architecture. You know 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 new vidmar 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 is to mozart festival is that musicians meet up here build networks and then come back you. Know would perform. Third of all one more role for the man with the next five. Even some experts are not familiar with mozarts compositions for them and. When they got this invitation from the months of face 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 to present this through a little like candies to little pieces by mozart and so the result is that its very rarely performed around the world so it was i thought it was a great opportunity. I relaxed already and some world 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 around. And that was it well almost weve got one more for you and this ones got energy to say the least how about it instead of the school this 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 headbanging and black an open air if youve had enough of high culture this is for you eighty five pounds of metal and hard rock disciples and a week of music partying and beer. Can 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. Layout a cheesiness just turned twenty and the other maker has given a sports car a facelift for his Birthday Well take the new t. G. As our first. To see this growing strong to the Third Generation of the model is rolling off the Assembly Line so whats changed to a try to. Limit the w. 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The tax the carbon its released into the atmosphere its one of the ways of trying to slow down the use of the fossil fuels and encourage people to move to the other fields moving to other fuels actually creates jobs it actually creates an entirely new industry. This is deja news coming to you live from but in separated by war reunited after decades of possible emotional reunions for north and South Koreans who never call this day would come to look at why they able to meet now and what it means for the people of the divided pregnancy also coming up call for us creates once again showed in tunisia killing at least a dozen people to the families unleashed fresh panic in the region hit just two weeks ago by deadly trades