Die Äffin // english title
The latest backsteinhaus production!
Premiere: 3. December 2020 // Theater Rampe, Stuttgart
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Wolfgang at the Fringe Festivals in Stockholm and Istanbul!
A backsteinhaus production
15.-19. Sept 2020 // online // Stockholm Fringe Festival, Sweden
21.-27. Sept 2020 // online // Istanbul Fringe Festival, Turkey
We are very happy to be invited to the Stockholm Fringe Festival STOFF and the Istanbul Fringe Festival!
›Wolfgang‹ will be shown online. The good thing about it, you can watch the video stream from the comfort of your own armchair!
If man fell on his hands, walked as a quadruped, let grow his fur and stood and howled, evolution would have taken a significant step. A piece for a speaker, a conductor, a musician and trucker, a choir, five to six dancers and a child.
›Wolfgang‹ was invited to Korea for the Seoul International Dance Festival 2018 and selected for the Tanz Yearbook 2018 as one of the seven best pieces about homeland.
Corona update
Dear audience, dear colleagues!
Like everyone, we have to react to the current situation due to the virus every day. We try to continue working, even if this is no longer possible in the same form as before.
Our guest performance with ›Wolfgang‹ at the Lichthof Theater in Hamburg could not take place, but we are invited online to the Stockholm Fringe Festival STOFF and the Istanbul Fringe Festival in September!
In addition, the premiere of a new backsteinhaus production – working title ›Die Äffin‹ – at Theater Rampe is planned for December 3rd!
Best regards and stay healthy!
House of Antibodies
A Coproduction with Theater Rampe and Theater Lübeck
Premiere: 6. June 2020 // 8:00 p.m. // haus-der-antikoerper.de
A double feature of two films tells about the virus breaking into all rooms and organs of the ›House of Antibodies‹.
What if a virus was not just the serious attack at an organism? What if he led society not into a collapse but out of it? The residents of the ›House of Antibodies‹ reinterpret the pandemic and, thanks to the virus, mutate into resistant antibodies. They are relieved when it breaks down disease-causing norms and habits. This virus brings neither illness nor death to the organism, but – on the contrary – healing. This pandemic places a quarantine on society that overcomes previous periods of standstill and isolation, and marks the start of a brave new world.
Vesper
A production for children (4+) by JES – Junges Ensemble Stuttgart in collaboration with backsteinhaus produktion
The table is set, at least for us. ›Vesper‹ explores through dance playful the common break and hunger as a subjective as well as a global monster. Visually rich and almost textless, the two performer search for a fair distribution among each other and are accompanied and supported by the young audience in the final shared snack. It will be danced, shared, played, eaten, burped and farted until the police arrives, the stage gets sick and a big question remains in the room: How the hell can we make it, make up for it, change it?
Platonia
The latest backsteinhaus production!
The lust for life becomes fatality to the world as to humankind, susceptibility becomes our own noose. Out of great love for life, backsteinhaus produktion creates a counterconcept and is passionately devoted to purely organic material disposal. How closeness is practiced gently, how living together is sustainably negotiated and how life happens without leaving a trace tells this misanthropic-optimistic utopia of love. Let’s celebrate life with the protagonists of ›Platonia‹!
Superbia
A backsteinhaus production
In this orchestral ideological union, which cultivates its high culture through power demonstration and haughtiness, the arrogance of mankind is reflected. Superbias system shows the basic manipulative mechanisms of ideological systems. The power of persuasion that is necessary to prevail ideas and move masses is always a question of attitude. How much haughtiness does one have to show, so that people will follow? This is not about content, it is about control.
Headless
A backsteinhaus production
Two, headless and stiff-necked, prepare themselves for a partner dance and sing a song together: a song against fear. ›Headless‹ is a parable of the time of general insecurity, resistance and its consequential damages – a posture exercise. Based on a straightforward position and the head as the body’s own resistance this duet was created at the time of the presidential election in the US in 2016 and can be taken literally in this sense. Because maintaining the position is difficult, the head tilts forward or backward, the human body straying stiff-necked and headless. And when the head steps out of line, madness forges ahead.
Nominated for the George Tabori Award 2018
We are nominated for the sponsorship award!
The award honors the remarkable ability to create an experimental format and striking artistic handwriting, as an exploration of new aesthetic ways – an ›upcoming‹ regardless of age or working period, which is being noticed nationwide.
»The Stuttgarter Physical Theater Company ›backsteinhaus produktion‹ around Nicki Liszta« is among other things nominated »for her radical and unusual formal language, which creates a highly political dance theater.«
Portrait of Nicki Liszta in ›Tanz‹
Thank you for this portrait by Angela Reinhardt in ›Tanz‹!
»Through a free scene that is practically silent, her pieces echo like little explosions. … Liszta’s art reduces the distance between the artist and the audience, substituting aesthetic contemplation or passive pondering through situations of horror and distance, provoking a physical reaction to what has been seen.«
To read in the January edition of ›Tanz‹ or online in the theater magazine of Friedrich-Verlag.