In his only opera, 'Le Grand Macabre', György Ligeti created a large, discursive world theatre in which the plain, unvarnished human condition, with all its base desires and weaknesses becomes the cause of a full-blown, imminent apocalypse.
In his only opera, 'Le Grand Macabre', György Ligeti created a large, discursive world theatre in which the plain, unvarnished human condition, with all its base desires and weaknesses becomes the cause of a full-blown, imminent apocalypse.
With his latest solo, Everybody-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday, Mohamed Toukabri steps into uncharted terrain, where movement becomes both excavation and rebellion. Known for his ability to navigate between worlds—be it street and stage, hip hop and postmodernism, personal and political—Toukabri now turns his sharp choreographic eye to the very architecture of dance itself.
Unaware of the threats surrounding him, the Roman emperor Tito tries to live up to his office as well as to his own standards.
A Sublime Mistake — played by Gonzalo Cunill — is based on all the slightly lost male characters in Jan Lauwers’ oeuvre. An intimate portrait of a man who looks at the world in astonishment and fails to understand why he is even part of it.
AMOPERA is the first part of a triptych around the idea of 'meta-opera', which aims to reflect on the medium of opera. This first instalment - the love part - is an intense collaboration between Klangforum Wien and Needcompany on opera and music theatre from the past hundred years.
Haunted by the night and inspired both by her ancestors and the Javanese theatre of shadows wayang, Grace Ellen Barkey, who was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, enters into a dialogue with the obscure and searches for forms of re-imagination in her installative performance MALAM / NIGHT.
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