Course Catalogue WS 2024/25
Dramarama 5! – 10x10
Live/Art Seminar
Type:
Specialist seminar
Semester:
WS 25/26
Target group
Main course / Diploma 2
Requirement
Full attendance for each session is required from all participants.
To register your interest, please send an email to phil.collins@khm.de by 1st october 2025 including:
- A short proposal for your production or an example of your creative writing
- A brief description of your work, artistic practice and interests
- A note on your experience in performance/acting/theatre/live art
The working language of the seminar is in advanced English.
The seminar includes weekly excursions to exhibitions and live performances across disciplines, including performance, dance, theatre, visual art, and concerts.
Dates - place & time
| Typ | Start | End | Day | Turnus | from-to | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30.10.25 | 29.01.26 | Thursday | Wöchentlich | 14:00 - 18:00 | Filzengraben 2a / Live Art Space |
| Typ | |
| Start | 30.10.25 |
| End | 29.01.26 |
| Day | Thursday |
| Turnus | Wöchentlich |
| from-to | 14:00 - 18:00 |
| Location | Filzengraben 2a / Live Art Space |
Seminar description
Winter Semester 2025 sees the Live/Art seminar continue its practice of collectively reading and interrogating dramatic texts as a way of engaging with contemporary themes and historical theatrical traditions. This semester, the focus shifts to student-led productions, which are authored, directed and performed by the seminar participants. The framework takes inspiration from a format developed in Jamaica by the late theatre educator and director Brian Heap: ten plays, each ten minutes long, performed over the course a single evening. For Dramarama 5!, we will extend this format to include and prioritise performance and live art, performance poetry, and other forms of short time-based work.
Previous editions of Dramarama have featured works by Heiner Müller, Sarah Kane, Caryl Churchill, Howard Barker, and Omar el-Akkad. This new iteration will continue to build on that legacy through original student creations and expanded performance practices. It invites experimentation and encourages students to engage with form, content and embodiment in innovative and politically attuned ways.
Language
The working language of the seminar is in advanced English.
Field Trips and Excursions
The seminar includes weekly excursions to exhibitions and live performances across disciplines, including performance, dance, theatre, visual art, and concerts.
Locations
Live/Art Space, 4A/B and Studio A
Student office
Karin Cordes
Juliane Schwibbert
Claudia Warnecke
Heumarkt 14, 50667 Köln
+49 221 20189 - 194 /119 / 187 / 249
studoffice@khm.de
Opening hours: Mondays + Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. + Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
For enquiries or appointments, please call us, Mon - Thu 9.30 to 1 p.m., or send us an e-mail.
Summer semester 2025
Lecture period:
Apr. 14, 2025 until Jul. 25, 2025
Winter semester 2025/26
Lecture period:
Oct. 20, 2025 until Feb. 13, 2026
