3 TAGE FREI — The Art of Protest
With THE ART OF PROTEST, 3 TAGE FREI opens its condensed edition with a polyphonic revue of artistic interventions, speeches and discursive moments.
As part of an open call, the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart gUG (FTTS) invited artists from Baden-Württemberg to develop performative contributions: pointed, precise and no longer than eight minutes. The call sought works that do not merely address protest as a theme, but understand it as an artistic practice – as a stance, a risk, a form of intensification and a gesture of solidarity.
The result is an evening inspired by the political tradition of the revue: between welcoming speeches and the festival opening, musical and spoken contributions, a sequence of short performative statements unfolds.
Seven selected contributions – four from Stuttgart and three from across Baden-Württemberg – come together to form a collective opening gala. The works were selected by lottery, highlighting the diversity of the independent scene.
Congrats to the selected artists!
Yahi Nestor Gahe & Dorothea Lanz
In “Le Vide” by Yahi Nestor Gahe und Dorothea Lanz, dance encounters language and language encounters dance. Movement is constant. Emptiness. People fall silent. They do not speak. Full silence – emptied silence. What becomes monstrous is that for which no words can be found. Resistance needs grounding in the collective.
Alessandro Giaquinto
Stuttgart-based choreographer and performer Alessandro Giaquinto works at the intersection of dance, performance, and writing. At The Art of Protest, he presents “NULL”, a reduced solo about the radical gesture of silence.
Ronja Schweikert, Micha Schlüter & Viktoria Kasprik // We Disappear
Gone in a flash—are they already gone? Three artists search, with music, death, and a vacuum cleaner, for (dis)solution. An absurd, poetic protest against becoming invisible, against disappearance, and the dissolution of identity.
Dahab Paulos & Muna Hassaballah // African Art Atelier Stuttgart
“Ubuntu. I am because you are.” What does a world without art and cultural work look like? And what does that mean for values such as community, humanity, and compassion? In times of fragmentation and cuts to art and culture, solidarity and mutual empowerment are not only a necessity, but also an act of survival. In this performance, the African Art Atelier Stuttgart brings the African philosophy of Ubuntu to life—through performances, storytelling, and new ideas for how to move forward.
PUNKAKADEMIE Mannheim
Three chords. Resistance. FLINTA* in the spotlight! That is the PUNKAKADEMIE Mannheim, a project by the independent music theatre group glanz&krawall and the Stadtensemble of the National Theatre Mannheim. Loud, driven by anger and solidarity.
Kollektiv Mütterkünste
Welcome to public space, welcome to the Underground Company—your accompanying collective for safe routes and upright stances. The intersectional feminist Kollektiv Mütterkünste engages with socio-political issues and processes them artistically. We take care.
Leonardo Rodrigues
Leonardo Rodrigues approaches dance as an alchemy of tension, rhythm, silence, and energy, in which cultural memory accumulates in layers within the body over time. In “Re:Liberation”, the transforming body becomes protest. If precarity reappears here—what can be learned from bodies that have lived with it for generations?
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