{"id":1702,"date":"2014-07-10T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christoph-schlingensief.de\/weblog\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2014-07-19T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T14:27:17","slug":"african-opera-village-continues-to-expand-dw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schlingensief.com\/weblog\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"AFRICAN OPERA VILLAGE CONTINUES TO EXPAND (DW)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progress continues on a project begun by the late German stage and film director Christoph Schlingensief. A sound studio is being set up in the „opera village“ he founded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just before his death in 2010, Chrisoph Schlingensief started work on a big, but unabashedly vague idea. Near Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, he was planning an „opera village“ in which daily life and art were to be interwoven.<\/p>\n

„In this way,“ Schlingensief said, „We can learn once more how creativity emerges and develops.“<\/p>\n

He saw the village, with its living conception of creative production, as a potential role model for an art scene that he criticized as „aloof.“<\/p>\n

In a school opened in 2011, 300 pupils are now learning film, dance, theater and singing alongside the usual school subjects. The site also includes a cafeteria, some apartments for staff and, as of June, its own health clinic. Now, a further part of the project is set to be realized. As part of his studies, a student at the Robert Schumann University of Music and Media will go to Burkina Faso for three months to set up a sound studio and get local workers acquainted with studio techniques. This is the first result of a long-term partnership agreed by the African opera village and the D\u00fcsseldorf Music Academy.<\/p>\n

„We must learn from Africa. The concept of the opera village encourages us to rethink our ideas about art and opera,“ said Heike Sperling, a professor at the D\u00fcsseldorf institution. The university has announced that further initiatives will follow. Schlingensief himself saw the project not as a one-sided provision of development aid, but as a place for experimentation and encounters in the service of art.<\/p>\n

Since Schlingensief’s death in August 2010, his wife Aino Laberenz has assumed chief responsibility for the project to ensure that it is carried out and further developed.<\/p>\n

dgp\/gsw (dpa\/ Robert Schumann University of Music and Media \/Opera Village Africa Foundation \/ Goethe Institute)<\/p>\n

Quelle: Deutsche Welle, 10.07.2014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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