The architects of the peculiar building at the end of a long, cobbled driveway on Eichenstrasse 43 would find it difficult to believe what has become of their creation. Originally intended as a tire manufacturing plant, the seemingly innocuous double-storey building has been subjected to a tumultuous history. Rumours of its past use for secret
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Dance and Philosophy : Movement in Space and Time
Dancer and choreographer Eva Burghardt gave an intensive dance workshop on campus the weekend of 25th-26th of April. Body Space Landscape was a «movement-based» workshop which mainly aimed at exploring all three categories through questioning the conservative understanding of dance as an artistic medium for certain types of corporeal expression. After two days of thinking
Seeing Your Mind Come to Life / If You’re a Theater Kid… (Part 2)
Read If You’re a Theater Kid… (Part 1) here. For me, art tends to be very personal. It comes from within the artist and is put on display for others to see, whether it is an idea you’ve had, an experience, a conversation, a picture. In Bard College Berlin’s Poetry and Poetics course, we recently
Berlin Sufi Ensemble Rabbaniyya: Walking the Path of the Whirling Dervishes
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. (Rumi) Peaceful silence fills the largest hall of the Werkstatt der Kulturen. Around three hundred people inhabit its rows waiting for
Interview with Yvonne Frazier, ECLA’s Vocal Ensemble Director and Vocal Instructor
The ECLA of Bard Vocal Ensemble delights us with great presentations at Christmas and graduation. It is not only the members of the ECLA of Bard community enjoying their performances, since the ECLA of Bard Vocal Ensemble also performs occasionally off campus. Behind their success there are many hours spent rehearsing, and a lot of
“Autobiographiction”: Month of Performance Art in Berlin
If someone had told me a year ago that I could participate in a performance art event, I would have been at least skeptical. I had always looked at avant-garde phenomena with a strange fascination, but this very feeling set boundaries. After having recently attended some of the events of the Month of Performance Art
ECLA Choir Sings at St. Maria Magdalena
The mixed student-faculty ECLA Choir, led by their director Yvonne Frazier, performed at St. Maria Magdalena Church as part of a special Pentecost service. Pentecost, called Pfingstmontag in Germany, is a national holiday and it commemorates the reception of the Holy Spirit by the twelve Apostles in Christian theology. A group of ECLA students and
Final Installation Showings
For eight ECLA students, there loomed a particularly stressful date in December: Wednesday 9th, at 19.30, when the final autumn term Installation showings were scheduled to take place. For a number of students, with elaborate projects in mind for the final showing, the race against time started a few days in advance. This event was