Machine-things (Dirigentenkreisel, Staksende Wippe, Wabbelndes Seegras) (© Lisa Bergmann)
Performer (Maximilian Zschiesche) and machine-things (Dirigentenkreisel, Staksende Wippe, Wabbelndes Seegras) (© Lisa Bergmann)
Audience and machine-things (Dirigentenkreisel and Wabbelndes Seegras) (© Lisa Bergmann)
Dance between perfomer (Maximilian Zschiesche) and machine-thing (Staksende Wippe) (© Lisa Bergmann)
Performer (Maximilian Zschiesche), Foam sound element and machine-things (Staksende Wippe and Wabbelndes Seegras) (© Mustafa Emin Büyükcoskun)
Performer (Maximilian Zschiesche) (© Mustafa Emin Büyükcoskun)
Poster (© Sophia Hamann & Yannick Nuss)
Guter Dinge (good things/in cheerful spirits) is a choreographic dialogue between three machine-things and one performer, combining elements from theater play, installation and dance. With crude, unpredictable patterns of movement, Dirigentenkreisel [conductor's spintop], Staksende Wippe [staking rocker] and Wabbelndes Seegras [wobbling seaweed] wander, wriggle and swing through the room: they are disturbers and disturbed - characters on a stage.
With scenographic means, Guter Dinge investigates the interplay between machines, performer, spoken text, choreography and spatial elements such as boundaries and sound. In terms of content, Guter Dinge is a decentralized assemblage, a non-hierarchical collection of ideas: What results from an interplay between two partners who must remain unequal? Do we have to infuse things with a soul before we respect them and take them seriously?
Installative performance – kinetic machine-things, sound und performance – about 40 min – big studio HfG
Performance: Maximilian Zschiesche, Dirigentenkreisel, Staksende Wippe, Wabbelndes Seegras Concept, choreography, machine-things: Leonie Ohlow Sound & lighting design, sound composition: Valle Döring Conductor conductor: Leia Walz Complicity, second hands: Janina Capelle Text: Gerrit Kuge & Leonie Ohlow Text consulting: Judith Milz Photo: Lisa Bergmann Video: Mustafa Emin Büyükcoskun Graphic design: Yannick Nuss & Sophia Hamann
With thoughts from: Mona Altmann, Katarina Baumann, Meret Bhend, Silvan Birkner, Jaya Demmer, Simon Milz, Nis Petersen, Anja Ruschival, Philipp Schulte
Thanks to: Richard Brunner, Jandra Böttger, Constanze Fischbeck, Hanna Franke, Hanna Jurisch, Tobias Keilbach, Lydia Kähny, Alex Knoppik, Matthias Mai, Răzvan Rădulescu, Sebastian Schäfer, Christina Scheib, Juliane Schmitt
Supervision: Constanze Fischbeck, Răzvan Rădulescu