A party, maybe the last party before the war. In an immersive performance space, the audience forms a community of fate together with two performers, percussionists and a choir of young women. French philosopher Simone Weil already tackled Homer’s Iliad – the original myth of violence in war – in 1940, analysing the dynamics and mechanisms of incessant warring. Her thoughts have inspired the Austrian/Brazilian/Spanish trio Brigitta Muntendorf (composition), Christiane Jatahy (director) and Rosa Montero (text), who respond to Homer’s epic with a contemporary feminist position. Enter a 3D audio setting with bone transmission headphones and live camera footage to celebrate together – on the edge of the abyss.
Distribution
Composition Brigitta Muntendorf
Direction Christiane Jatahy
Text Rosa Montero
With Sofia Jernberg, Margaux Marielle-Trehoüart, Les Percussions de Strasbourg (François Papirer, Yi-Ping Yang, Tamara Kurkiewicz, Marius Schmidlin), Aduni Guedes, Landesjugendchor Wien and background actors/actresses
Stage design, Light design Thomas Walgrave (in collaboration with Júlio Parente)
Photography and live camera Paulo Camacho
Sound direction Sebastian Schottke
Dramaturgy Jana Beckmann, Martin Mutschler
Programming, Live electronics Lukas Nowok
3D Audio operation Banu Sahin
Commissioned by Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien
Production Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen
Coproduction Les Percussions de Strasbourg
⏰ Show at 19h30 and 21h.
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