Wild Conversation ~Music Tennis~ · KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen

SpektakelAkademie

SpektakelAkademie various locations across the festival site

Talks, Workshops, Guided tours, Festival Campus

The Forty Part Motet

Sound installation Galerie

Fri 22.5. | 15:00 | more dates

Einstein on the Beach

Concert / Beach club Festival opening Neues Rathaus / Kuppelhalle

Philip Glass / Ictus Ensemble / Collegium Vocale Gent / Suzanne Vega / Tom de Cock

Fri 22.5. | 19:30

BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.)

Meadow with trees in the background. In the foreground, a woman in black clothing stands with several large bass speakers lying on the grass.

Sound installation Großer Garten / Rasengarten

Sat 23.5. | 18:00 | more dates

The Day Before

Music-theatre German premiere DHC-Halle

Brigitta Muntendorf / Christiane Jatahy / Rosa Montero

Sat 23.5. | 19:30 | more dates

Piano Concerto

Concert KinderKunstSpektakel Orangerie

Simon Steen-Andersen / NDR Radiophilharmonie / Ning Yu / Vimbayi Kaziboni

Sun 24.5. | 11:00 | more dates

Weird Machine Wrekshop

A pile of electrical waste

Interactive installation KinderKunstSpektakel Arne Jacobsen Foyer

Sun 24.5. | 11:30 | more dates

Ballroom

Man wearing a red cap and blue jumper with white clouds. Many white balls are flying through the air around him.

Tech circus KinderKunstSpektakel Ehrenhof

Post uit Hessdalen

Sun 24.5. | 11:45 | more dates

Wild Conversation ~Music Tennis~

Lawn with a tennis net, high-rise buildings in the background

Interactive installation KinderKunstSpektakel Faustwiese (Fri 22.5) / Welfengarten (Sat 23.5) / Großer Garten / Lawn at Prinzentor (Sun 24.5 and Mon 25.5)

Syotaro Hayashi

Sun 24.5. | 12:00 | more dates

Simple Machines

Small robot on a patch of grass

Robot performance KinderKunstSpektakel Orangerie Hinterbühne

kwaad bloed vzw.

Sun 24.5. | 14:00 | more dates

Key Jack

Woman with top hat, to her right and left, a picture of her is projected onto the wall.

Mini concert performance KinderKunstSpektakel Orangerie

Michael Beil / Ning Yu

Mon 25.5. | 11:00 | more dates

Silence is Golden

A woman and two men in black suits, putting their fingers to their lips as a sign to be quiet.

Concert Orangerie

Sarah Maria Sun / Kilian Herold / Jan Philip Schulze

Tue 26.5. | 19:00

Von Vergänglichkeit & Zauber

Concert Orangerie

Sarah Maria Sun / Jörg Widmann / NDR Radiophilharmonie

Thu 28.5. | 20:00

DIE TONIGHT – LIVE FOREVER. A Club Opera

Club opera World premiere DHC-Halle

Treppenhausorchester

Fri 29.5. | 21:00 | more dates

Chapters of Celebration

Dance / Performance German premiere Orangerie

Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe / Wouter Deltour / Muziektheater Transparant

Sun 31.5. | 18:00

Electric Art Monday

Early clubbing Orangerie

Cio D’Or / Laima Adelaide / Woody92 / Mike Parker

Mon 1.6. | 18:00

Music Music – Histoire(s) du Theatre VII

Dance German premiere Schauspielhaus Hannover

Tue 2.6. | 19:30

An Invitation to Disappear

Audiovisual installation Galerie

Julian Charrière

Wed 3.6. | 19:30 | more dates

My Fierce Ignorant Step

Dance German premiere DHC-Halle

Christos Papadopoulos

Thu 4.6. | 19:30

Ways of []

Human-Robot Concert German premiere Orangerie

Zeno van den Broek / HIIIT / Les Percussions de Strasbourg

Fri 5.6. | 19:00

Ein postdigitales Morgenritual

Concert Performance Hybrid art Großer Garten

Stefanie Egedy / Fronte Vacuo / A Song For You Choir / DJ Kikelomo

Sat 6.6. | 5:00

WASCO!

Action painting performance For Young & Old DHC-Halle

hetpaleis & Voetvolk / Lisbeth Gruwez & Maarten Van Cauwenberghe

Sat 6.6. | 16:00 | more dates

Stimmen der Stadt – Voices of the City

Walking concert City center Hanover

Hanover choirs: Bachchor, Collegium Vocale, Johannes-Brahms-Chor, Junges Vokalensemble, Knabenchor, Mädchenchor, Norddeutscher Figuralchor, Vivid Voices

Sat 6.6. | 18:00

Community picknick

Festival closing For Young & Old Festivalzentrum

Kulturstadt Hannover, Was Geht

Sun 7.6. | 15:00

Syotaro Hayashi

Interactive installation – German premiere

Venue

Faustwiese (Fri 22.5) / Welfengarten (Sat 23.5) / Großer Garten / Lawn at Prinzentor (Sun 24.5 and Mon 25.5)

Time

Fri 22.5 / 12 – 6 p.m.
Mon 25.5 / 12 – 6 p.m.

Tickets

Fri 22.5 and Sat 23.5
Free admission

Tue 26.5. and Mon 25.5
Admission Großer Garten

Duration

continuously with breaks

Recommended age

From age 5

Fri 22.5. – Free admission Sat 23.5. – Free admission Sun 24.5. – Admission Großer Garten Mon 25.5. – Admission Großer Garten

Sport is music! This interactive installation takes place on a pop-up tennis court equipped with movement detectors and loudspeakers. Its tennis-playing visitors become improvising musicians. The movements of their bodies on the court activate the loudspeakers, making various sound effects or melodic fragments audible. So every rally brings about a new piece of music in real time.

The aim of the installation is to connect sport and music, performance and training, so as to blur the boundary between performers and audience. What melodies will the tennis players elicit if they don’t compete for points but cooperate for sounds? With Wild Conversation the Japanese musician Syotaro Hayashi diverts the attention away from the contest of the tennis game towards a mindful approach oriented to dialogue and empathy. Music Tennis is the expression of his resistance to individualistic and competitive values.

While Music Tennis occurs in chance encounters in Hanover’s public space during the opening weekend, at the KinderKunstSpektakel it can be played in the setting of the Herrenhausen Gardens.

Work Support
Yuga Omae, Aoi Nogi

Accessibility

Limited accessibility: Access to the garden is at ground level, and the paths in the garden are covered with gravel. For further information, see Galerie and Accessibility.

Sponsors & partners

Guest performance supported by the Lower Saxony Lotto Sports Foundation.
Sponsored by the Friends of the KunstFestSpiele e.V.
Supported by EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee.