CONCEPT, PERFORMANCE: Helga Lázár, Gerda Knoche
DIRECTING: Anne Brüssau
CHOREOGRAPHY: Domokos Kovács
SET DESIGN: Jessica Lipp
MUSIC: David Schuckart, Petra Szászi
GENRE:Audiovisual object theatre with elements of physical theatre
PREMIERE: 2021, FITZ – Zentrum für Figurentheater, Stuttgart
A body- and object-based theatre experiment about the fear of emptiness and (self-)attachment to images, rituals, and self-care myths, reflecting through audiovisual spaces, movement, and symbolic alienation.
“Connect with yourself! In a world full of uncertainty, surely the simplest and safest thing must be to find a place of calm within oneself. Within a genre-crossing performance, a ‘love-yourself challenge,’ two performers attempt to find their own path between teabag messages, self-help literature, and TED Talks in order to understand the concept of ‘self-love.’ Two personal approaches, one shared goal: to fill the emptiness with love. Failure is possible. Success still needs to be defined.
An oversized, screen-like spatial element becomes the projection surface for desires, for the optimal self-image – or for a PowerPoint presentation of emotions, in which Gerda Knoche attempts to convey her emotional state to the audience, while Helga Lázár lets her body slide ad absurdum across a treadmill in pursuit of the best version of herself. A (social) network of cables creates an intimate distance between performers and audience. But the audience can remove their headphones at any time and step out of the inner wellness soundscape into silence, into nothingness, where the performers remain.”
– PHOTOS BY DAMIÁN CANTEROS & GALA GOEBEL –
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