3 TAGE FREI — The Art of Protest

The submissions for THE ART OF PROTEST have now been selected by lottery. Among those performing are Yahi Nestor Gahe, Ronja Schweikert, Dahab Paulos and Alessandro Giaquinto from Stuttgart, as well as Ricarda Walter / PUNKAKADEMIE and Leonardo Rodrigues from across Baden-Württemberg. In short performative interventions, they explore protest as an artistic stance.

More information about the programme coming soon — we’ll keep you posted!

The Art of Protest — the open call

An open call by the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart gUG (FTTS) as part of 3 TAGE FREI, hosted by Theater RAMPE, the Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. (LaFT BW e.V.), in cooperation with FTTS.

As part of the condensed festival edition 3 TAGE FREI, the festival 6 TAGE FREI – Festival of the Independent Performing Arts invited artists from the independent dance and theatre scene in Baden-Württemberg to contribute performative acts to the festival opening. The call sought short artistic interventions engaging with protest, resistance, utopias and cultural funding cuts, forming a collective opening revue in the spirit of a “protest gala.”

The open call is made possible by the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart gUG, the LaFT BW e.V. (funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg) and the Péter Horváth Foundation.

Requirements

Applicants were required to be based in Baden-Württemberg, with their artistic practice centered in the region, and to work professionally as independent artists in the dance and theatre scene.

Concept: Protest Gala / Revue

The opening gala of 3 TAGE FREI provides the formal framework for the invited artistic contributions. Its dramaturgy draws on the tradition of the revue, characterized by variety, rhythm and the direct juxtaposition of diverse positions. Building on the revue’s historical role as a politically and socially critical format, and responding to contemporary modes of reception, the format works with rapid transitions, pointed forms and strong imagery.

As a collective opening, performative contributions alternate with speeches by the festival team, greetings from invited political representatives and discursive moments. The gala presents itself as a polyphonic beginning: loud and quiet, humorous and serious, contradictory, uncomfortable, solidaristic and open to a wide range of aesthetic approaches.

Context: Why Protest?

Significant cuts to public cultural funding demand a radical rethinking—especially for the independent scene. At the same time, we are witnessing social, political and democracy-threatening developments as well as global conflicts that make a loud, creative and solidaristic culture of protest more urgent than ever.

With its condensed edition 3 TAGE FREI, the festival deliberately places the art of protest at its center and asks how artistic practice can take a stance today: through intensification, risk, bold alliances and the insistence that the world could be otherwise.

Apply here online.

For questions regarding the open call, please contact us exclusively by email at produktion@ftts-stuttgart.de.

All information is also available at ftts-stuttgart.de.