i'm neal i was still on the briefings and to me it's clear to me. the solutions are out there. join me for a deep dark green transformation for me. for the. welcome to all it's in culture on this edition we look at how performing artists are finding ways to occupy and express themselves despite the devastation their professions are still facing pandemic knockdowns. we'll hear how one casualty a production of romeo and juliet has reinvented itself we purposing the theater where the long life production couldn't open. and will be lax with an artist use

it not it designs of being called a panacea for pandemic strikes. but 1st culture is unstoppable that's the message of a project born out of one choreographers frustration with the devastating impact of lockdowns on the don'ts world stuttgart based eric doty i wanted to keep our eye and inspire his companies 16 don says after they were put out of work by the pandemic the result is a collection of solo dogs is created by dozens of artists collaborate collaborating internationally the dying swan project. and barbara mellow frédérique drags herself along in front of a cat's current expose. dying swan being filmed for the latest dance production by if i go to you.

he says and i was in the studio and told my dancers there would be no performances in february and march i saw they were all hanging their heads like this i laughed to myself and said you all look like dying swans then i went to my office and thought actually that's a nice topic theoretically. and practically to. go t. a wouldn't be good if you didn't develop a dance project out of that spontaneous idea and to do it in record time. was a little idea i had in the beginning but now it's become much bigger with a lot of work for a lot of artists. quickly got 16 choreographers from around the world involved each of whom contributed a solo number one for every member of the company. yet . one of them was nicky lister who also leads

a dance company and start got the music was composed especially for the pieces thanks to stuttgart stay at our house and sponsorship from diamond. where i worked as the composer to cover the beginning and appearing virtually from goatees hometown of montreal it was usually people ned who developed her version of the classic tale of the diaster on choreographing a piece can be done remotely if need be. in the directs. the album working with vision e a simply a gift you can express yourself very well and evolve and play with feelings. and in 5 and. tossed in funk is barbara miller free areas filmmaker he's one of a further 16 creatives involved in the project.

the wounded swan gasping for breath on the pavement behind the rehearsal room. is this how dancers feel these days. the pain of food new i miss the stage i think we all do it's really very magical to be on stage and to feel that energy coming from the audience to the dancers the piece in the key for. making videos is some comfort especially since putting them on line means a much larger audience than usual and who says the dying swans won't end up on stage at some point certainly not it like. so the show must go on and the company members of go to a dance are putting all they have into it the swans are still very much alive.

and you can see the results of all that preparation on their take out to house stuttgart you cheap channel and go to dances instagram from this friday i'm joined now by my colleague adrian kennedy good to see your idea and now go to a dance innovating in order to continue despite the lockdown and they're not the only ones out there now we're seeing quite a lot of creative solutions that are out foremost to engage with audiences at home another good example of this is the new production of romeo and juliet from the national theatre in britain it was originally envisaged as a stage production but in 2020 it became one of the. first victims of the coronavirus crisis a crisis as we know is the mother of invention and they decided to revamp it as a film for t.v. stars josh o'connor. the familiar to many because he was french charles in the

most recent series of the crown and jesse buckley place juliet it was shot in just 17 days at the national theatre littleton stage ok and we have the director our simon godwin here talking a little bit about how it was made. the camera doesn't come at the end of the process it comes at the beginning every morning jim sydell our great director of photography would come in and essentially put me through film school so we'd talk each morning about this is a close up this is a long shot this is a medium close up because we're going to start the process now of nothing and sometimes nothing is quite liberating and the film itself in a way mirrors the journey from theater to film because we start as. we start on the stage just with the acts where simple everyday clothes simple everyday props the space is very much like this and then as the story gains momentum and the imagination of the actors takes over we move from a very rough there's

a context to a much more refined cinematic landscape. when it looks exciting adrian has it been well received has had glowing reviews that it's a romeo and juliet for the coronavirus. while these online and t.v. productions all great for the time being but of course will change to get back into theaters properly lived one of the chances well in britain the vaccination is quite advanced indeed monday was a milestone day because many shops and pops really opened some very unusual scenes in britain theaters to making plans to reopen some have already announced dates the national theatre for example. life is on june 16th and as you can say something

of a carnival atmosphere in and around britain so wonderful for them but here in germany things are not looking quite so rosy now here the vaccination rollout has been a little bit more problematic and we're looking more at extended lockdown and tightening of risk. directions some big festivals have already been cancelled rock am ring rock and park others the vacuum heavy metal festival or at the other end of the scale the famous by horowitz a wagner festival are hoping to go ahead on a smaller scale but with audiences. and the. don'ts is hoping support on its production of the dying swans project for audiences in late may and to take that on top internationally in the autumn but of course we'll just have to wait and see how that turns out and where can we see romeo and juliet it's already showing in the u.k. on sky and now t.v. and it premieres in the us on p.b.s.

on april 26 the 23rd story my colleague adrian kennedy as usual great chatting with the thank you parting is such a great song it is indeed. now to an artist whose work is more in demand than ever and not despite but because of the pandemic swedish design a state is a master of geometry and it appears psychology has 3 dimensional art works of being called hypnotic meditative and relaxing the stop homebase design is playful symmetry in motion has won him a claim and half a 1000000 followers on instagram. geometric shapes move and roll as objects combine effortlessly in endless sequences of movement friction and the laws of gravity seem to be suspended here. these creations are the brainchild of swedish motion graphics artist under us van ash date he uses

a special computer program to get his fascination for shapes free reign. of the good things with 3 d. software is nowadays is that they make it very easy to mimic physics facing behaviors like like a camera you can capture lights in a way that almost look photo realistic to believe. you're going to. be animations are only a few seconds long. yet they seem endless the trick is to edit them into a seamless salute. the swedish artist has already programmed more than 150 digital works of art drawing on 20 years of experience as a graphic designer and 3 d. artist. he sketches out his ideas over the course of several days or sometimes even weeks. i try to base my work on.

simple objects and simple shapes and try to keep my minimalistic as possible and to focus on the movements and on the and the feeling of the movements and the pattern the motion patterns and once the concept is finished vanished it needs less than a day to program his digital creations using cinema 4 d. soft where it's important to him to share his art online and receive feedback about what users like and dislike. the funniest thing about this is a lot of people think that i'm actually building physical models of physical sculptures and everything i create is digital. everything i do is is done in my 3 to software but i still get emails pretty much every day from people who wants to buy them are new things that are actually building this. he posted his 1st

animation on instagram and 2016 since then he's gained more than 650000 followers amberley has vanished its works are hugely popular. one day i received 50000 followers in one day only and there are. many people say his animations have a soothing effect and can reduce stress levels. german psychiatry list and stress researcher actually explains why. it's common for us to immerse ourselves in rhythms like the ones we've seen this complex animation. complex and up it is satisfying for us to see something function smoothly as we can see demonstrated here in all its complexity or by the one that is soothing for us. and that's exactly what andreas vanished it is out

to do he's glad it has perfectly smooth animations bring some calm to social media with this the 3 d. artist has created something new in the digital world hypnotic 3 dimensional animations that are a balm for the soul. i think we could all use a bit more of that until next time keep safe and keep well. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in the media telling the haters ship with just one t.v. shadow and if you're his favorite one official information as a journalist i have worked all this trip many can't trust and their problems are always the same core to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when

it comes to the fans of the humans on the scene or microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny paris tonight word. for the 1st time anywhere in the world a high ranking syrian officer is on trial in germany and more are was the alleged head of torture for the assad regime in damascus he is charged with murder torture and rape gave the orders beat him he'd say and i was beaten if mr and why did not like my answer to a question. survivors are also

attending the trial and hoping for justice. journalist who know what father is on her way to the higher reaches court in cold blends where the trial has been underway for a year so far she has not missed a day in court if i say i don't know what i will hear and i don't know if you will cause. sometimes i'm anxious but on the other hand i know i'm going to him and he said details in this call session. or other court sessions. who and of other. does not yet know which witness or joint plaintive will testify today because the court is keeping the name sealed the fear of assad's long reach

is so great that witnesses and joint plaintiffs are intimidated in the courtroom luna whose name has been changed to protect her identity is the only syrian journalist following the trial here she is doing this for all of the syrians who cannot be present for her this is not about journalistic responsibility this is a fish dish this is they're important to me because i am also a former political prisoner from the same wallet at al qa t. prison. and when the witnesses give their testimonies the stories here i also have my story in fact i am also writing my story behind the scenes oh my gosh there. are as allegedly responsible for these accounts of torture that are being discussed in court he is charged with crimes against humanity $58.00 counts of murder torture in at least $4000.00 cases and rape is personal culpability is

being tried in cold blood but as he sits in the dock he represents the entire assad regime. wassim was also tortured by n y r r when he was on his way to a demonstration in syria in september 20th levon he was arrested and taken to prison a notorious torture facility where and are was in charge. i was interrogated 3 times over the course of 5 days a year each time i was interrogated allegedly by and why are what he said i am the interrogator. has been death in gave the orders and he told others to beat me so i was beaten if mr anwar did not like my answer to a question. which to fund. wassim tells us that he shared a 22 square meter cell with 87 other people they all took turns sleeping in a seated position security guards broke his ribs during the interrogation wassim

did not tell n y r r that he is a musician. it if you're in the interrogation i was always afraid that they would beat my hands if a hand would be broken or a finger removed or something like that it would be a disaster for me. and. my leg they always told me to lay on my stomach with it and put my feet in the air so i laid on my stomach and placed my hands beneath my chest just. that in part to support my ribs because it was painful to lie on my stomach the schmetz huffed of them. but also to protect my hands with it no matter where they hit me they didn't reach my hands. on there was all i could do besides being dead to protect them i was afraid for my hands and for my life but at least there was something i

could do about my hands. mine a hand at this and that was my personal kind of resistance that's one. of us to stop. a scene continues to resist today here in berlin in front of the reichstag the german parliament he and other like minded people are calling for an end of the assad regime. is playing revolutionary songs for his fellow comrades in support of a free and democratic syria. put a silence reach is long his regime exerts a strong influence on witnesses and joint plaintiffs in germany their families who are still in syria report instances of intimidation nevertheless a cmos testified in court and human rights lawyer should monitor saif says this is important. that everyone would claim for sure and he.

wouldn't let me say. that in the air and then warn them equal maybe if. they were hanging this enormous 1000000 sold to the wall on the head of. the wall going all over won't begin any overpowered more evil what this in the end more for the human died for training. the one. who by the time luna watchful was imprisoned in a hut deep and more are was already gone having defected to the opposition as one of their intelligence officers he applied for asylum in germany when he told the authorities about his past they arrested him under the principle of universal jurisdiction that allows a state to prosecute crimes against humanity even if the. it took place outside of

their territory and even if neither the perpetrators nor the victims are citizens of that state since then you know what far has heard and seen many cruel stories in the courtroom this was one of the most difficult moments for her. the caesar photograms pictures taken by a former syrian military photographer referred to by the family as caesar who secretly copied them while still working for the regime and later smuggled them out of the country the now in cold blood they are evidence of the assad regime's torture methods. to see victims depicted in this way without being able to change anything i can only sit behind the witnesses and record their testimony but i can't change anything in syria. and this is session was really really bad at all and never forget the photos.

for that i tried not to see those photos it'll take us so i guess in this particular court session and it was necessary. that's when most owners saw the caesar photos for the 1st time shortly after they were published in 2014 during which time she was an active protester in syria and from that moment on she knew exactly what she was facing even so she continued to go to demonstrations when people were killed in a chemical weapons attack she took photos of the graves sent them abroad and was arrested. of its. own that an officer asked me to give him the names of others who worked with me i said there were no other this that i worked all by myself. and at that point he loved often and said. ok

you don't want to be co-operative with us so that's why i will take your kids. during the entire year that no was in prison she was afraid for her children only later did she learn that they were never arrested so. far lona it's the end of another day in court she's reporting live on the events today for the arabic channel event news and she's about to interview one of the joint plaintiffs at. the law complex say many of the witnesses beforehand it was not easy for this witness to tell his story and they remember how awful things that happened and are forced to realize i have a bad feelings they don't want to remember. this is no use them to have asked for luna with each testimony she is also reminded of her torture in prison you know wants to know what it was like for the witness today. we're getting of questions from

a german court it was also very sad to judge this guy in front of the german court . we have to judge the same person and other people in our syrian courts as well. here in berlin revolutionaries would also prefer to see the main defendant tried in a syrian court but they are confident that call blanks is at least the 1st step toward justice ideas the syrians never had a place to talk about her ideas equity or justice and now we have this opportunity because of the copelands trial the biggest that they got that for the 1st time and we actually need justice assyria among them but not just that it's that this man has committed certain crimes against syria and it's and this is the criminal trial against that man against again but not against the regime exactly but copeland's is very important because this case represents the whole government the whole syrian

government is a criminal i agree because it systematic not an isolated case is the at the 1st step but i'm hopeful that me to be to. be counted it. was even the other revolutionaries hope assad will also have to stand trial at some point some of the people here are sure that the trial is already leaving its mark on syria and the lawyer on mar albany is one of them he has helped prepare many of the lawsuits but i am sure they do this that they support this i am. sure the crimean that is now did not see it there would be a call in the future to be a wife. on the other hand doesn't believe the trial has changed anything in syria so far here at home in copeland's

she jots down her thoughts from the courtroom and marks the locations of mass graves on maps luna who has asylum has been in germany since 2015 she and her children are safe here and that makes her happy the trial in koblenz is changing her life. if i think about what has happened to other prisoners in syria all the time. for example what happened to the women who were in my cell. service their fate. and i don't know nobody no use. the regime is still torturing tens of thousands of syrians know what what is documenting this process for them to so that she can say we did not stand idly by while this happened.

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