Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel + Christoph Bochdansky + COV Compagnie Off Verticality (DE/AT)
Der Reigen
A overly beautiful song about death
Inviting, brisk, grinning, playing music and dancing grotesquely, this is how Death is shown as a skeleton in the medieval Danse Macabre. Opposite of him – the human being: wondering, hesitating, persisting in a gesture. Many variations of the Danse Macabre have since formed the artistic examination of human beings with Death, but in the end all concepts ultimately reflect the incomprehensibility of this moment: their own encounter with death.
Artists from different genres, cultures and generations are sharing their concepts, fears and strategies to live with the certainty of death. In a merry-go-round of pictures, movements, words and sounds, the recurrent moment of dying is played through in different modes: “mysterious”, “maestoso”, “in soft tones”, “melancholic”, “excited, frivolous, swinging” are the performing instructions.
And … in the end we can witness an immortality: bawdy Punch and longing-to-die Pierrot show us how death can be outwitted.
The internationally successful puppet theatre company Wilde & Vogel was founded in 1997 by the puppeteer Michael Vogel and the musician Charlotte Wilde in Stuttgart. In 2003, Wilde & Vogel founded the international production centre for Figurentheater, Westflügel Leipzig. This year they are also guests at the festival with the piece “Staub – Dust – אבק”, a co-production with Golden Delicious.
Artists from different genres, cultures and generations are sharing their concepts, fears and strategies to live with the certainty of death. In a merry-go-round of pictures, movements, words and sounds, the recurrent moment of dying is played through in different modes: “mysterious”, “maestoso”, “in soft tones”, “melancholic”, “excited, frivolous, swinging” are the performing instructions.
And … in the end we can witness an immortality: bawdy Punch and longing-to-die Pierrot show us how death can be outwitted.
The internationally successful puppet theatre company Wilde & Vogel was founded in 1997 by the puppeteer Michael Vogel and the musician Charlotte Wilde in Stuttgart. In 2003, Wilde & Vogel founded the international production centre for Figurentheater, Westflügel Leipzig. This year they are also guests at the festival with the piece “Staub – Dust – אבק”, a co-production with Golden Delicious.
Puppet & Object Theatre
Dance
Dance
Choreography: Rose Breuss
Performance, Scenography: Christoph Bochdansky, Michael Vogel
Dance: Kai Chun Chuang, Damián Cortés Alberti, Marcela López Morales
Live-Music: Protect Laika – Stefan Wenzel, Charlotte Wilde
Advice mask scenes: Björn Leese, Michael Vogel (Familie Flöz)
Performance, Scenography: Christoph Bochdansky, Michael Vogel
Dance: Kai Chun Chuang, Damián Cortés Alberti, Marcela López Morales
Live-Music: Protect Laika – Stefan Wenzel, Charlotte Wilde
Advice mask scenes: Björn Leese, Michael Vogel (Familie Flöz)
Co-Produced by Westflügel Leipzig / Funded by Stadt Leipzig and Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Sachsen
© Dana Ersing
© Johann Kressin
© Dana Ersing