

In 2015, they received the City of Düsseldorf's Förderpreis in the field of performing arts. Between 20, both were also members of the dance company of Ben.

There he met Daniel Ernesto Müller, with whom he founded the artist collective HARTMANNMUELLER after graduating in 2011. Simon Hartmann received his training as a stage dancer at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Together with other members of Quarantine’sĮnsemble, Richard was an artist-in-residence at MITsp festival, São Utrecht (NL, 2018), Ruhrfestspiele (DE, 2019) & Münchner He directed the award-winning What Is the City but the People?įor Manchester International Festival (UK, 2017) BAK & SPRING Onassis-STEGI (GR) Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT) Maillon (FR) SPRINGįestival (NL) & PAI Warsaw (PL), collaborating with artists,Īctivists and experts to examine the notion and presence of borders in It premiered with Transform festival at Leedsįor Quarantine, commissioned by HELLERAU & Ringlokschuppen (DE) Invites workers to demonstrate and talk about their labour and their Is a 12-hour piece - part-performance, part-exhibition of people - that His most recent work, 12 Last Songs (2021), Richard has directed 25 projects for Quarantine across the past 24 years. His work with Quarantine has involvedĬollaboration with a vast range of people including philosophers,įamilies, politicians, architects, plumbers, soldiers, scientists,Ĭhefs, sociologists, children, doctors, dancers, florists, opera singers Richard has developed a distinctive and influential practice around a Gregory is co-Artistic Director of Quarantine, based in Manchester, UK. There is always a poetry to Quarantine's art that brings out and celebrates the extraordinary in the supposedly mundane. Quarantine's documentary theatre usually focuses on people who talk about their real lives and social environment.

Quarantine is a British artist group founded in 1998 around directors Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea in collaboration with set designer Simon Banham. And perhaps also what needs to change now so that theatre will remain relevant to society in the future. An encounter based on a hundred questions to find out together what the pandemic has done and is doing to the relationship between artists and their audiences. Now it is possible to come together once again, but some things for theatre may have changed forever.ĪND NOW, by British artist ensemble Quarantine, is a laboratory for artists and an audience - an encounter unlike any before. The encounter between audience and artists in the same space, which is at the core of the theatre experience, was cancelled. For many months, theatres were only accessible digitally due to the lockdown.
