Performing arts festival Switchover (Ümberlülitus) is coming to Tartu for a whole week in May to collectively switch over before summer. The third edition of the festival gathers moments that make you forget the fourth wall ever existed. Moments where you enter the space as strangers, but by the end of the performance it feels like you've been taking the same bus to work with everyone else in the audience years. Moments where there is plenty of room for excitement, exchange, intimacy and for the unknown.
The festival begins with Aunt Õie’s 65th Birthday by Urmas Lüüs, offering some domestic grotesque. This party is followed by **Harald Beharie'**s provocatively queer Batty Bwoy, which has been presented at numerous European performing arts festivals. The following day, Mure Staatuse Pärast by Kertu Moppel, Arthur Arula, Lauri Kaldoja, Maria Lee Liivak, Elina Reinold and Markus Truup will take a critical look at social dynamics.
A year ago **Stina Fors visited Tartu with her one-woman punk band. This year she will show off her vocal talents with her solo work A Mouthful of Tongues, which will leave even the most passive theater-goer speechless. After presenting her tender, raw and somewhat brutal work Me / Her as part of Kanuti Gildi SAAL’s short performance platform SAAL3, Anita Kremm will present an extended version of it in Tartu on 24 May. Kultuur by Maria Metsalu allows the audience to position themselves in the middle of the spectacle, in front of or behind it, both in city and theater space. On the last day of the festival Heneliis Notton’s workshop Alone Together questions whether writing should be a solitary activity, exploring it through playful exercises.
Program
21.05
18:00 Urmas Lüüs Aunt Õie´s 65th birthday at Armastuse saal, Aparaaditeha
20:00 Harald Beharie Batty Bwoy at Turu 8 Sports complex
22.05
18:00 Urmas Lüüs Aunt Õie´s 65th birthday at Armastuse saal, Aparaaditehas
20:00 Kertu Moppel, Arthur Arula, Lauri Kaldoja, Maria Lee Liivak, Elina Reinold, Markus Truup Mure staatuse pärast at Tartu Uus Teater + artist talk
23.05
17:00 Urmas Lüüs Aunt Õie´s 65th birthday at Armastuse saal, Aparaaditehas + artist talk
20:00 Stina Fors A Mouthful of Tongues at Plantarium by Jardin
24.05
19:00 Anita Kremm Me / Her location tba
21:00 Maria Metsalu *Kultuur *at Tartu Uus Teater
25.05
13:00-16:00 Heneliis Notton Alone Together - writing workshop at Tartu Kirjanduse maja
18:00 Maria Metsalu Kultuur at Tartu Uus Teater
21:00 Stina Fors “A Mouthful of Tongues”, Knorringu aadlimaja
Supported by: Tartu City, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Folk Culture Centre