Premiere
25 February 2023, 7:30pm
@ Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof
Further dates (several times a day): 26-28 February & 2-5 March 2023
TICKETS via wuppertal-live.de
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Every day, every night, sometimes long, sometimes short, all alone, in pairs or collectively – we sleep, lie down, relax – we wake, toss and turn, dream. Lying and sleeping are states experienced universally by all living beings, but in which each individual is radically thrown back on itself.
The two-part performance installation first takes the audience on a vertical journey of sleep as an everyday experience and, at the same time, a cultural and art-historical phenomenon. A performer offers inspiration, occasions for reflection and opens up perspectives of rest and restlessness. The audience is then immersed in a horizontal space of experience. The room-filling installation literally places the audience under a projected sky of reclining, sleeping individuals.
The project “Himmelskörper”, developed by the choreographer Barbara Cleff and the composer Nicolás Kretz, unfolds a complex image and sound space consisting of two audio levels composed for this purpose and a video level. The viewers, lying themselves, are invited to rethink and to experience their ideas of sleep.
A physical and digital performance for 12 persons at Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof Wuppertal.
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Team:
Artistic direction, production and concept: Barbara Cleff
Composition and video: Nicolás Kretz
Photography: Dominik Sutor
Performance: Silvia Munzón López / Sina Ebell, Guest: Annika Kompart
Dramaturgy: Georg Kentrup
Stage design: Gerburg Stoffel
Project management: Gesa Linnéa Hocke
Technical management: Manfred Marczewski
Administration: Christian Koch
Funded by: Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturbüro der Stadt Wuppertal, Fonds für Kunst und Kultur in Wuppertal
The audio podcast “Sweet Dreams”, part of the performance “Himmelskörper”, was funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and by NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal.
With thanks to: Annika Kompart, Consol Theater, Fabian Chyle, Felicitas Martin, Fischer & Friends, Gertraud Johne, Hans Richter, Insel e.V., Jens Frisch, Juliana, Markus Riedel, Nico Heinen, Nils Stakemeier, Rolf Gabel, Ulrike Brockerhoff, Valerie Seela, Zara Gayk
