Laughing Hole

On Saturday night we had a double bill: La Ribot's performance, Laughing Hole, running for SIX hours at PACT Zollverein, and rAndom international's Instant Structure for Schacht XII, installed at one of the Zollverein's towers. It was a rainy miserable evening, but we didn't let that stop us from having fun... if it's gonna rain, let it pour!

Here we are doing the wet red-carpet walk...

Sinking of the Titantic

On Friday night, we went to Duisburg to watch Estonian conductor Anu Tali lead the Bochumer Symphoniker in performing Gavin Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic. We hung out at the Gebläsehalle beforehand, waiting for the show to start, since some of us were meeting for the first time. Here they are...

Q&A with Jodie Lawson, Joost van der Elst and Anu Tali

Tarek Atoui zeigt der Jury sein Instrument

The Last Adventures

Yesterday the jury checked out the premiere of The Last Adventures, a new performance by Forced Entertainment in collaboration with Tarek Atoui. But first, we walked the red carpet to hoards of people at the fabulous Maschinenhalle Zweckel in Gladbeck.

Nowhere and Everywhere

Nowhere and Everywhere at the Folkwang Museum, Essen

After a brief hiatus, we're BACK! Today we checked out Nowhere and Everywhere at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, featuring the work of American choreographer William Forsythe. But first, the jury walked the red carpet to enter the show..

Q&A Levee des conflits

Der rote Teppich / The red carpet

- For English version see below-

Ein Beitrag von Darren O'Donnell, Ruhrtriennale 2012

Die Kinder der Children's Choice Jury betreten die Spielstätte über einen roten Teppich. Andere Kinder, die als Darsteller oder Besucher bei der Ruhrtriennale zu Gast sind, nicht. Warum also diese Kinder?

Diese Betrachtungsweise missversteht die Rolle des roten Teppichs. Der rote Teppich ist nicht irgendein Moment vor oder außerhalb von dem Projekt, er IST das Projekt. Er ist ein Teil der Performance, um es klarzustellen: The Children’s Choice Awards sind eine Performance. Bei der Jury handelt es sich nicht um eine echte Jury, die Preise verleiht und damit das Leben oder die Karrieren der Künstler verändert.

Hamsa Semo - Der Experte

Hamsa Semo

Als erfahrenes Jurymitglied der Children's Choice Awards von 2012 unterstützt

Hamsa Semo am Eröffnungswochenende die Organisation der diesjährigen Festivaljury.

Levée des conflits by Boris Charmatz

On Sunday we were sadly rained out of the Halde Haniel in Bottrop, but we still managed to see Boris Chamatz's Levée des conflits, a choreography for 24 dancers, indoors. Here is the jury before the show...

Metropolis: Actuel Remix

On Saturday night we went to Duisburg to see the Metropolis Ciné-Concert outdoors (but covered!) at the Gießhalle. In the dark, we had a jury meet and greet, and then hid from the rain on the bus as we waited to make our entrance.

Crackz

On Saturday we had another double-header, starting with Bruno Beltrão's dance performance, Crackz. Here is the jury walking the red carpet into PACT Zollverein... they're pros already.

Delusion of the Fury

The jury stuck around the Jahrhunderthalle after www 2013 to catch the second of their Friday double-header: Delusion of the Fury. We enjoyed the hammocks, ate some dinner and wreaked some havoc on the grounds while we waited...

Dan Perjovschi's www 2013

On Friday, the jury had a DOUBLE HEADER: Dan Perjovschi's www 2013 started us off in the afternoon. Here is the jury walking their first red carpet of the year: 

OPENING NIGHT at TEST PATTERN!!!!

THE CHILDREN'S CHOICE AWARDS AT THE RUHRTRIENNALE 2013 IS UNDERWAY!!!!

On Thursday, the festival, and the jury, got started. We put on our VIP badges and got back in the VIP cars to check out Ryoji Ikeda's Test Pattern at the Kraftzentrale in Duisburg. 

Here is Jana with jury 1 from the Erich-Kästner-Realschule in Mülheim an der Ruhr!

It's almost time!!!

Preiskategorien wählen und VIP-schilder basteln - Gesamtschule Globus am Dellplatz (Duisburg) und Parkschule (Essen)

Heute haben wir in Duisburg und Essen wahnsinnig viele Preiskategorien gesammelt und danach Magnetschilder für die VIP-Autos gebastelt. Die Jury ist also mit allem ausgerüstet, geht jetzt noch flott in die Ferien, um dann

Workshop#2 - Erich-Kästner-Realsschule in Gladbeck

Gruppenfoto (es fehlen weitere 90 Jurymitglieder!)

Workshop #1 at the Willy-Brandt-Schule in Mühlheim a.d. Ruhr

WE'RE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

It's official: THE CHILDREN'S CHOICE AWARDS ARE BACK AT THE RUHRTRIENNALE!

After a wunderbar run at the 2012 Ruhrtriennale, we're back to do CCA once more in Deutschland. Today we got started, and met our first 60 students (of 100 total!!!) at their schools in Mülheim and Duisburg. 

Meet the class in Mülheim!