Österreichiche Erstaufführung

Datum der Aufzeichnung: 19.10.2016

Ort: Salzburg

Im Rahmen von: tanz_house Festival, ARGEkultur Salzburg

Is giving ourselves to another perhaps a contradiction in an era of self-realization, in a time of seeking who we truly are?

 

 

 

Who is talking about love in contemporary arts nowadays? Nearly nobody. But we do! We feel this big subject of theater must be explored strongly - even now in times of big changes and global faulting.

 

 

 

We live in an era of immense appeal of dating agencies, even mobile phone apps, now promising the impossible.

 

What is it which causes our somehow desperate search via technology, when we are actually seeking love?

 

Is it a search for a deeply felt loss of orientation, a general feeling of dread? Or are we really just looking for a mirror image? Why is love so very hard to find?

 

Is giving ourselves to another perhaps a contradiction in an era of self-realization, in a time of seeking who we truly are?

 

 

 

Iris Heitzinger and Dante Murillo explore the fundamental conditions of becoming a couple and explore their various inner and outer, even existential circumstances beginning with the playground leading to the 'battle ground' and back again.

 

It is a piece about yearning, about courage, about deep anxieties, dreams, about damages suffered...

 

It is a piece about resolution...

 

About doubts and trust, about expectations and disappointment, about competing, about attempts for dominance and submission, about the addiction to closeness followed by a need for inner and outer distancing, about the space we allow and the space we claim for ourselves, and finally, about immense tenderness, as well as a capacity for violence.

 

This is, ultimately, a declaration of love to a theatre which physically expresses a world of feelings, and what feelings are capable of making us do.

 

It is that which cannot be named, it is that we try to show in ways which resound.

 

Spanish premiere: 17 June 2016, l‘Estruch, Sabadell, Spain

 

Austrian premiere: 19 October 2016, ARGEkultur Salzburg, tanz_house festival

 

creation, performance:

 

Iris Heitzinger, Dante Murillo

 

artistic direction, creation, scenography:

 

Editta Braun

 

composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff

 

lightdesign: Thomas Hinterberger

 

coaching directing: Arturas Valudskis

 

dramaturgy: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau

 

production: Austrian Ministry of Culture, City of Salzburg, Region of Salzburg

 

co-production: L'Estruch Sabadell, Fábrica de creación (Spain)

creation, performance: Iris Heitzinger, Dante Murillo artistic direction, creation, scenography: Editta Braun composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff lightdesign: Thomas Hinterberger coaching directing: Arturas Valudskis dramaturgy: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau production: Austrian Ministry of Culture, City of Salzburg, Region of Salzburg co-production: L'Estruch Sabadell, Fábrica de creación (Spain)