Work order goes to the collective Ta-Nia, Talia Paulette Olivares and Nia Farrell

At the end of this year’s Stückemarkt, the ensemble of the Schauspiel Dortmund paid tribute to all the works of the invited artists in short individual laudations in a performative review. Finally, the director of the Schauspiel Dortmund Julia Wissert announced the winners of this year’s Stückemarkt work contract on behalf of the theater.

Excerpt from the laudation:
»The joyful celebration that Ta-Nia presents in Dreams in Blk Major is a journey through pop-cultural references and narrations, while reflecting on the unspoken, the taboo. The invisible. It dismantles what theater is and was basically: a white institution and once a ritual. A ritual that helps push boundaries, break taboos, disrupt narratives and sometimes create communities. It offers irritation, perhaps frustration, but also empowerment as a first step towards change.
As authors and theater makers, Nia Farrell and Talia Paulette Olivares are an opportunity for theater: because they celebrate and question it. We experienced them as intelligent, fun-loving and radical artists – theater makers for the theater of the future. “
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The Stückemarkt work contract has been awarded as an award since 2007 in the interests of sustainable artist funding and funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education / bpb.
Thomas Krüger, President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education / bpb, sent a greeting:
“Creating and living solidarity and community is sometimes easier said than done, but it is not impossible. I see great potential here – or in the development of perspectives and opportunities for solidarity and community – especially in you. They are young artists who can redefine spaces for the conceivable and rethink the future. “
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The award of the Stückemarkt work contract marked the end of this year’s Stückemarkt, which annually looks for new forms of authorship and innovative theater languages ​​in an internationally open competition and this year brought together artistic works under the motto “Against Isolation”.

The Stückemarkt presented the texts “Coop (German: Zaun)” by Sam Max, “Dreams in Blk Major” by Ta-Nia (Talia Paulette Oliveras and Nia Farrell) and “Midnight Movie” by Eve Leigh as scenic readings in the live stream as well as the Performances “Aalaapi” by Laurence Dauphinais and “Nanjing” by Jude Christian as recordings. The Stückemarkt artists could also be experienced in artists ‘talks, film portraits and workshops and worked in a collective writing process together with the author and dramaturge Marcus Peter Tesch in a virtual writers’ room to reflect on the structural conditions of contemporary authorship . They also made their first appearance on the Playwright’s Podcast at the Royal Court Theater by Simon Stephens.

The opening of the Stückemarkt and the following panels are still available at digital.berlinerfestspiele.de:
“The drama and the pandemic or: The polyphony of the monologue”
“The drama and the pandemic or: The (over) lifetime of dramatic texts”
“Against isolation or: Who are we?”

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