TUKI Research Theatre - Experimenting between Reality and Imagination
As experimental and explorative theatre format TUKI Research Theatre connects the children's thirst for knowledge with aestethic experiences.
Based on the children's curiosity research questions are formulated and through artistic exploration fictional and real phenomena become tangible. Six theatres and six nurseries form artistic resesarch collectives in which children between 4 and 6 years, artists and nursery school teachers go on an explorative journey. „Where are the sounds that we don't hear?“, „How does the darkness glow?“ or „Reader of Tracks – What do traces tell us?“
Depending on the research question the explorer-collective takes excursions and invites experts to broaden their knowledge and find inspiration for new questions. Towards the end of this playful research-journey the explorer-team develops an interactive performance.
To incorporate this format permanently in the nursery the intensive research-theatre collaboration between both partners continues over the duration of 3 years. At the same time the nursery school teachers and the artists take part in workshops about the theory and aesthetic practise of research based theatre.