SCHUBERT ALEXANDER – Asterism

World premiere: from 17 to 19 september 2021 , Théâtre Le Maillon, Strasbourg, FR
Comissioner: Festival Musica, La Muse en Circuit – Centre National de Création Musicale, Opéra National du Rhin
Effectif: 5 dancers/performers, 4 singers, 6 percussionists
Duration: 35:34′
Production: Festival Musica
Coproduction: Théâtre Le Maillon, Percussions de Strasbourg, La Muse en Circuit – Centre National de Création Musicale, Multimedia Kontor Hamburg

The theatre becomes the site of a ritual. A total and uninterrupted performance, to be experienced day and night, for 35 hours and 34 minutes.

Immersive installation, interactive performance, a place of spirituality for the present and the future. With Asterism, Alexander Schubert has created an unidentified artistic object, at the crossroads of musical, scenic and technological practices. Within a strange sanctuary, constantly vacillating between hyperrealism and virtuality, natural and artificial elements, musicians and performers, as well as an artificial intelligence in control of the ritual, rub shoulders. A post-digital nature, a hallucinatory in-between world that the public is invited to explore at any time of the night