Moving Audience
"The day I retired life started to be difficult. I had nowhere to live, no work or regular income," says Chinese acrobat Cheng Fei, seven time national champion and world champion. "All of those flowers, applause, banners – as though it was in a different life." Cast aside before the age of thirty, on her own, without social security, often without education and job prospects. In the production of The Ghosts, Constanza Macras worked together with Chinese acrobats and circus artists. It was as though these artists, who formerly won fame and fortune for their country, were forgotten and abandoned by Chinese society, even though many of them are still relatively young. They are reminiscent of the hungry ghosts from Chinese mythology – lost souls that were forgotten by their descendants and languish in interspace.
Credits
Choreography and Direction: Constanza Macras
Dramaturgy: Carmen Mehnert
By and with: Emil Bordas, Fernanda Farah, Daisy Phillips, Yi Liu, Juliana Neves, Huanhuan Zhang, Huimin Zhang, Xiaorui Pan, Lu Ge, Chico Mello, Wu Wei, Jiannan Chen.
Music: Chico Mello in collaboration with Wu Wei, Jiannan Chen, Fernanda Farah and Yi Liu
Lighting Design: Sergio de Carvalho Pessanha
Sound: Stephan Wöhrmann
Video & Photodesign: Manuel Osterholt
Set Design: Janina Audick
Set Design Assistant: Veronica Wüst
Costume Design: Allie Saunders
Assistant Director: Nikoletta Fischer
Trainees: Alba Duno, Ariella Karatolou, Chin Kuo, Paul Rabe, Ottavia Tröster, Roberta Petit
Translation: Chao Liu, Maureen Luo Yuebing
A production by CONSTANZA MACRAS | DorkyPark and Goethe-Institut China in co-production with Tanz im August (DE), Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (DE), CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia (IT) and Guangdong Dance Festival (CN)
Funded by Capital Cultural Fund (DE), Berlin Governing Mayor of Berlin – Department for Cultural Affairs (DE) Supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department (DE) and the kind support Garden Hotel Guangzhou (CN)
The Moving Audience Program is made possible by the financial support of the European Union Culture program as part of the Theatron network.
