20 July, 9.30pm
21 July, 9.30pm
Hidden stage
show in German with Italian surtitles
Free admission, with reservation. The reservation is valid up to 10 minutes before the start of the show, afterwards it will be possible to access while seats last.
For Abecedarium Bestiarium Antonia Baehr has invited a few friends to write short texts based on a spelling book of extinct animals: D stands for Dodo, T for Tasmanian Tiger, S for Steller's Sea Cow and so on. The authors have chosen an extinct animal of which they're especially fond and to which they feel particularly close, resulting in the production of multifaceted miniature choreographies reverberating with the affinities with their chosen animal and with their friendship with the artist.
Antonia Baehr is a choreographer, performer, film maker and visual artist based in Berlin, whose work explores the fictional side of daily life and of the theatre. She works with other artists, often in a context where guest and host trade roles.
Like in a 16th century Persian miniature, Antonia's animal portraits imitate poetry rather than nature. (...) Antonia Baehr appears to develop an entire universe of affinities mirrored, deviated, postponed and translated in queer fashion into [animal] metaphors, a potentially unlinked universe governed by erotic bonds which traverse bodies, texts, scores, space and time; activated by her body at once male and female, with a language forged by relationships encountered. A language that comprises voice, sound, movement, text and architectures, christened Abecedarium Bestiarium. (A. S. Bruckstein Çoruh)
For the first time in Rome, at re-creatures, Baehr will be leading us into her Abecedarium Bestiarium
Overall concept, production and performance: Antonia Baehr
With compositions by: Frédéric Bigot (electronicat), Pauline Boudry, Valérie Castan, Lucile Desamory, Vinciane Despret, Sabine Ercklentz, Dodo Heidenreich, Christian Kesten, Keren Ida Nathan (Ida Wilde), Andrea Neumann, Stefan Pente, Isabell Spengler, Steffi Weismann,William Wheeler, a. o.
Artistic collaboration: Valérie Castan
Lighting design: Sylvie Garot
Lighting direction: Luc Jenny
Sound: Manuel Coursin, Eric Yvelin
Sound direction: Carola Caggiano
Costume: Patty Eggerickx, Steffi Weismann, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Werner Hirsch
Production: Alexandra Wellensiek
Production assistance: Sarah Blumenfeld, Barbara Greiner
Translations: Guillaume Cailleau, Sabine Macher, William Wheeler
Subtitles and video calibration: Guillaume Cailleau, Hanna Slak
Assistance: Elisabeth Leopold
Video recording: Angela Anderson
Thank you to: Lindy Annis, Bettina von Arnim, ausland, Ulrich Baehr, Sarah Bahr, Silke Bake, Frédéric Borrotzu, Uli Ertl, Walton Ford, Elisabeth Freeman, Andreas Harder, Nanna Heidenreich, La Ribot, Ulrike Melzwig, Wolfgang Müller, Conrad Noack, François Noudelman, Alain Roux, Pauline Schroeder-Baehr, Marlène Shaw, Christiane & Arnulf Spengler, Gertrude Stein
Special thanks to: Beursschouwburg, Brussels
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Beursschouwburg
Production: make up productions (Berlin)
Co-production: Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon – in the framework of the project Jardin d’Europe, with support of the European Commission and ]domaines[ (Montpellier), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen), steirischer herbst (Graz), Tanzquartier (Vienna), Les Subsistances (Lyon)
This project is co-produced by NXTSTP, with support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
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