Moving Audience, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden
Cult Flemish ensemble Peeping Tom presents the second part of a trilogy about family members. In the choreography of Moeder, Gabriele Carrizo shows the body as a repository of conscious and unconscious memories that blend and define who we are. Where are the boundaries and unexpected connections between suffering, sadness and joy, lying and leaving, order and madness? Universal and collective memory radiates from the individual memories of the director and performers.
In Moeder, choreographer Gabriela Carrizo shows the body as a storehouse in which a multitude of conscious and unconscious recollections merge, collide, and define who we are. The work creates unexpected connections that thread the boundary between suffering, mourning, and celebrating, between holding on or letting go, structure and madness. Here, life and death can be art, showcased for all to see. Out of the flux of the individual memories of the director and performers – the matrix of the piece – a universal and collective memory shines through. And this memory triggers disturbing reflections on the meaning and responsibilities of being a woman, a mother, a parent.
Following the seclusion of a senile mind in a retirement home (Franck Chartier, Vader, 2014), Moeder marks a natural evolution in Peeping Tom’s work and in its exploration of a staged space that is at once more public and less defined, with a sophisticated light plan adding abstraction.
Credits
Directed by: Gabriela Carrizo
Assistent of director and dramaturgy: Franck Chartier
Created and performed by: Eurudike De Beul, Maria Carolina Vieira, Marie Gyselbrecht, Brandon Lagaert, Hun-Mok Jung / Quan Bui Ngoc, Yi-Chun Liu, Simon Versnel, Charlotte Clamens
Production: Peeping Tom
Co-production: Theater im Pfalzbau (Ludwigshafen), Taipei Performing Arts Center (Taipei), KVS - Royal Flemish Theatre (Brussels), Grec Festival de Barcelona / Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Maison de la Culture de Bourges / Scène Nationale, La Rose des Vents (Villeneuve d’Ascq), Festival Aperto/Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), La Bâtie Festival de Genève.
Moeder is supported by Theater im Pfalzbau (Ludwigshafen) and Taipei Performing Arts Center (Taipei), key partners in the Vader, Moeder, Kind trilogy.
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