A performance group that undermines the limits of rationality comes to ImPulsTanz to finish what was started in 2018: the Eine moderne Geschichte in anhaltender Gegenwart trilogy. Following the first two eight-hour opera-dance-fashion installation shows, Like Shapes in Dreams and Forgiveness, they now present the final act in the form of an immersive Madness Opera promising FOREVER. It brings Medea and the Bacchae together with the poet and coup leader Yukio Mishima in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan. Magnificent arias (Micaela Tobin), madrigals and pop ballads (Marilies Jagsch) sound, while tap dancing and ballet is juxtaposed with Viennese choreographer Steffi Wieser’s “movements of haemorrhage”, which cause trance-like states leading to exhaustion.
With the kind support of:
Concept, text/libretto and direction: Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell
Composition and musical direction: Brian Lawlor
Choreography: Steffi Wieser
Tap dance choreography: Emmanuel Obeya
Additional choreography: Lavina Vago, Akino Distelberger and Emmanuel Obeya
Additional musical contributions (songs): Marilies Jagsch
Additional musical contributions (arias): Micaela Tobin
Magic: Thomas Thalhammer
Lighting design, installation and operation: Joe Albrecht
Sound: Ryan Kelly
Installation: Curran, Daniel Ecker, Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell and Cucina Alchima
Visuals: Alexander Nowak
Silver plate photography: Dan Hawkins
Costume for Micaela Tobin: Anna Telcs
Costume for Company Saint Genet: Jordan Christianson
Graphic design (book) and poster design: NKO
Public art installation: Lars Burgquist
Production management: Hektor Peljak
Performance:
-drcm-, Akino Distelberger, Marilies Jagsch, Hannes Moser, Lily Nguyen, Emmanuel Obeya, Steffi Wieser, Micaela Tobin, Thomas Thalhammer and Lavina Vago
Special guests:Hermes Phettberg (Health Dependent) and Cucina Alchima (Midnight Service)
Live music: Sarah Dragovic, Leonie Groessl, Brian Lawlor, Erin Jorgensen, Emily Stewart and Micaela Tobin
Soloist (arias): Micaela Tobin
Soloist (songs): Marilies Jagsch
Featured singers: Emmanuel Obeya and Erin Jorgensen
Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur (AT) and Wienerberger AG (AT)
