Performance
2/12/2016, 20:30
Puppet Theatre Ljubljana (PTL) – Stage Under The Stars
Tickets: 7 € presale, 10 € at the door
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Violent Event by Verena Billinger and Sebastian Schulz explores different aspects of perception of violence in the contemporary media-driven society and performing arts. The performative choreography of the authors and a group of performers does not address violence only with the use of different media disclosing physical violence in the forms of indirectness, which is a standard media practice, and directness, which is usually attributed to the performance art; instead, their analytical and research approach questions almost every format of the presentation or representation of violence. What is violent is not only acts that we observe in their brutality but probably the mediatisation itself. Brecht said that a play can be written about anything except oil. It seems that Billinger and Schultz are completely serious in addressing the question of whether violence put on stage can really have an effect in its actuality and directness without transcending to the level of sign and without letting the ambition of its representation become violent in itself.
The choreographers direct our attention to society and the public. The artistic production focuses on the role of the body in our models and objects. Aware of their own movement as a transmitter and sign of life, they created the images and effects of emotional tension in each moment.
Concept and choreography: Verena Billinger & Sebastian Schulz
By and with: Patricia Gimeno, Frank Koenen, Sanna Lundström, Lea Martini, Nicolas Niot Lighting design: Stine Hertel
Stage design: Camilla Vetters
Music: Anton Kaun
Costume design: Charlotte Pistorius
Video: Melchior Hoffmann
Production management: Alessia Neumann, Melchior Hoffmann
Production: Billinger & Schulz
Co-Production: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, FFT Düsseldorf
Duration: 75 min
Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag
