202508mayAll Day09Backstage Club Düsseldorf
Professionals’ Meet-up exploring multiplicity and strategies of togetherness. “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.” ― bell hooks
Professionals’ Meet-up exploring multiplicity and strategies of togetherness.
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.” ― bell hooks
Caring for Culture starts with a Culture of Care: for each one and one another. When facing challenging times, how do we strengthen our (collective) structures to develop a sustainable practice?
Over two days, the Backstage Club invites professionals to come together and reinforce the indispensable links in the artistic ecosystem of research, production, and presentation. The workshops and exchange sessions aim to:
> foster knowledge sharing by involving key experts in the field as facilitators,
> initiate collaborative thinking among the participants on the topics,
> improve awareness among cultural professionals and artists of international opportunities.
Join us if you are:
>> a professional of performing arts interested in being involved in (international) collaborations;
>> eager to network with peers from the region and abroad;
>> willing to explore means of togetherness and principles of solidarity.
Backstage Club is an international workshop series tackling key aspects of transnational collaborations. The event series is open to local and international artists and cultural professionals. Backstage Club is an initiative of NextStage, a Creative Europe funded program. NextStage offers an incubation program empowering a new generation of managers to consolidate sustainable career paths for emerging and mid-career artists.
Backstage Club in Düsseldorf is the third in a series of events, following an edition in Athens (Greece) in April 2024, and one in Budapest (Hungary) in March 2025.
Programme:
Thr. 08.05., 10:00 – 12:30, tanzhaus nrw/ Studio 1
EU grants and international cooperation projects
– workshop
Facilitators:
Lena Becker, consultant Creative Europe Desk KULTUR/ the national contact point for EU cultural funding
Brigitta Kovács, creative producer, EU projects’ coordinator for Workshop Foundation Budapest
Thr. 08.05., 14:00 – 16:00, tanzhaus nrw/ Studio 1
Partnering – embracing multiplicity
– movement lab*
Facilitator:
Bahar Gökten, dance artist grounding in urban dance culture
* For this session no specific equipment is required (come with your street clothes and shoes)
Fr. 09.05., 10:00 – 12:30, Freiraum
Producers’ regional networking meeting
– meet-up
Facilitator:
Sofie Luckhardt, coordination team produktionsbande
Fr. 09.05., 14:00 – 16:00, Freiraum
The network is your strength
– round table
Facilitators:
Shirin Mirachor, founder and managing director of the cultural institute (A)WAKE Rotterdam
Meghna Bhardwaj, dance artist and academic from New Delhi/ Dance Research NRW scholarship holder
The event is free of charge and we ask you to register. You can choose to join for one, more or all the sessions. For registration please use this online form:
The venues are wheelchair-accessible.
We will use the English spoken language.
For any questions drop us an email at post@komplizinnen.space
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2025.05.08. - 2025.05.09. (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
202420aprAll DaySimkó Beatrix – Grecsó Zoltán: #ORFEUSZ #EURÜDIKÉ
Zoltán Grecsó’s and Beatrix Simkó’s duo puts Orpheus’ and Eurydice’s mythos in today’s conditions, giving a special interpretation to this so many times presented love story.
Zoltán Grecsó’s and Beatrix Simkó’s duo puts Orpheus’ and Eurydice’s mythos in today’s conditions, giving a special interpretation to this so many times presented love story.
Now, Eurydice will be expelled to the hell of our present world. Of course, she will be followed by his lover, the famous singer of the Greek mythology, but even though Orpheus understands the language of the animals, this world is and remains unfamiliar to him, and suddenly he gets helpless and incapable – he has no vigor to confront the ethos of the 21st century.
He tries to adjust to Eurydice’s new lifestyle, but Orpheus is not able to alter himself: his internal rhythm, which is different and slower than that of the beloved woman’s, does not match the everyday of his changed lover. Their love, which was believed to be immortal, even to survive death itself, will be in danger. The happy, ageless slowness will be uninterpretable in the caducity and quickness of the present.
Once again, Orpheus enters the underworld to find his lover, but this time their relationship becomes hell.
The dancer duo presents the conflict between the world of myths and the realities of the present, but dramatically it offers even more, by demythologizing their heroes themselves. Orpheus and Eurydice do not have to fight gigantic adversaries, like death. Their inglorious but at the same time hard fight will be about the everyday, the change, and the different world views.
This is an exciting challenge, to code this momentary collision, presenting dissonance and diversity in the language of motions only. Dance allows to show the mainspring of human relationships, the internal forces generating unsolvable conflicts.
In their duo, Beatrix Simkó and Zoltán Grecsó accumulate their experience of years of working together, using Dániel Dömölky’s clear scenography construction, in the atmosphere created by sound designer Ábris Gryllus.
Choreography, dance: Simkó Beatrix, Grecsó Zoltán
Music: Gryllus Ábris
Set design: Dömölky Dániel
Costum: Földi Petra
Video: Dömölky Dániel
Production manager: Kovács Brigitta/ Vodál Anita
Producer: Pro Progressione
The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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2024.04.20. All Day(GMT+00:00)
+ audience discussion, moderator: Eke Angéla + afterparty Zoltán Grecsó’s and Beatrix Simkó’s duo puts Orpheus’ and Eurydice’s mythos in today’s conditions,
+ audience discussion, moderator: Eke Angéla
+ afterparty
Zoltán Grecsó’s and Beatrix Simkó’s duo puts Orpheus’ and Eurydice’s mythos in today’s conditions, giving a special interpretation to this so many times presented love story.
Now, Eurydice will be expelled to the hell of our present world. Of course, she will be followed by his lover, the famous singer of the Greek mythology, but even though Orpheus understands the language of the animals, this world is and remains unfamiliar to him, and suddenly he gets helpless and incapable – he has no vigor to confront the ethos of the 21st century.
He tries to adjust to Eurydice’s new lifestyle, but Orpheus is not able to alter himself: his internal rhythm, which is different and slower than that of the beloved woman’s, does not match the everyday of his changed lover. Their love, which was believed to be immortal, even to survive death itself, will be in danger. The happy, ageless slowness will be uninterpretable in the caducity and quickness of the present.
Once again, Orpheus enters the underworld to find his lover, but this time their relationship becomes hell.
The dancer duo presents the conflict between the world of myths and the realities of the present, but dramatically it offers even more, by demythologizing their heroes themselves. Orpheus and Eurydice do not have to fight gigantic adversaries, like death. Their inglorious but at the same time hard fight will be about the everyday, the change, and the different world views.
This is an exciting challenge, to code this momentary collision, presenting dissonance and diversity in the language of motions only. Dance allows to show the mainspring of human relationships, the internal forces generating unsolvable conflicts.
In their duo, Beatrix Simkó and Zoltán Grecsó accumulate their experience of years of working together, using Dániel Dömölky’s clear scenography construction, in the atmosphere created by sound designer Ábris Gryllus.
Choreography, dance: Simkó Beatrix, Grecsó Zoltán
Music: Gryllus Ábris
Set design: Dömölky Dániel
Costum: Földi Petra
Video: Dömölky Dániel
Production manager: Kovács Brigitta/ Vodál Anita
Producer: Pro Progressione
The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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2024.05.28. All Day(GMT+00:00)
202428sepAll DaySimkó Beatrix – Grecsó Zoltán: #ORFEUSZ #EURÜDIKÉ
Zoltán Grecsó’s and Beatrix Simkó’s duo puts Orpheus’ and Eurydice’s mythos in today’s conditions, giving a special interpretation to this so many times presented love story.
Zoltán Grecsó’s and Beatrix Simkó’s duo puts Orpheus’ and Eurydice’s mythos in today’s conditions, giving a special interpretation to this so many times presented love story.
Now, Eurydice will be expelled to the hell of our present world. Of course, she will be followed by his lover, the famous singer of the Greek mythology, but even though Orpheus understands the language of the animals, this world is and remains unfamiliar to him, and suddenly he gets helpless and incapable – he has no vigor to confront the ethos of the 21st century.
He tries to adjust to Eurydice’s new lifestyle, but Orpheus is not able to alter himself: his internal rhythm, which is different and slower than that of the beloved woman’s, does not match the everyday of his changed lover. Their love, which was believed to be immortal, even to survive death itself, will be in danger. The happy, ageless slowness will be uninterpretable in the caducity and quickness of the present.
Once again, Orpheus enters the underworld to find his lover, but this time their relationship becomes hell.
The dancer duo presents the conflict between the world of myths and the realities of the present, but dramatically it offers even more, by demythologizing their heroes themselves. Orpheus and Eurydice do not have to fight gigantic adversaries, like death. Their inglorious but at the same time hard fight will be about the everyday, the change, and the different world views.
This is an exciting challenge, to code this momentary collision, presenting dissonance and diversity in the language of motions only. Dance allows to show the mainspring of human relationships, the internal forces generating unsolvable conflicts.
In their duo, Beatrix Simkó and Zoltán Grecsó accumulate their experience of years of working together, using Dániel Dömölky’s clear scenography construction, in the atmosphere created by sound designer Ábris Gryllus.
Choreography, dance: Simkó Beatrix, Grecsó Zoltán
Music: Gryllus Ábris
Set design: Dömölky Dániel
Costum: Földi Petra
Video: Dömölky Dániel
Production manager: Kovács Brigitta/ Vodál Anita
Producer: Pro Progressione
The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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2024.09.28. All Day(GMT+00:00)
How can one reconcile parenting and creative work? How can we be fully present both as parents and as creators? How can freelance, independent
How can one reconcile parenting and creative work? How can we be fully present both as parents and as creators? How can freelance, independent artists and cultural professionals find balance between raising children and engaging in creative activities?
These are the central questions of the one-day community-building event titled Parenting and Creation: The Choreography of Sustainability, initiated by Beatrix Trisha Simkó. Through movement-based workshops and an open roundtable discussion, participants are invited to share experiences and support one another as a genuine community — as creators, as parents, in both the present and the future.
The event warmly welcomes all creators and cultural professionals who resonate with the theme, regardless of their artistic discipline.
Childcare is provided throughout the event for all age groups.
Program Schedule
Concept and Artistic Director: Beatrix Trisha Simkó
Production Assistant: Lili Stern, Next Stage
This project is realized with the support of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary (NKA).
Special thanks to: Next Stage (with the support of the Creative Europe Programme), Workshop Foundation, FÜGE.
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