Direction, Concept, Text and Performance: Perel / Performance: Rita Mazza / Composer: Dina Maccabee / Light design: Joseph Wegmann / Costume: Russell Harris / Technical Direction and Stage Design: Jonas Droste / Production: Diana Paiva, Anna von Glasenapp / high expectations / Assistant direction and dramaturgy: Katharina Joy Book / Audio description: Emmilou Rössling & Silja Korn / DGS Interpretation, Jona Schmitz: Alma Arnoul, Mille Skovdal Jepsen, Mathias Schäfer / Dramaturgical support: Dani Brown, Kenny Fries / Access Coordination: Rüzgâr Buşki / Communication and Make-up: Rhama Corvalán / Film documentation: Nadja Krüger, Greta Markurt / Photo documentation: Maya Wallraff
Perel
Natural Acts
- Performance
Age recommendation: 18 years
German Sign Language / English phonetic language / approx. 120 mins.
German Sign Language / English phonetic language / approx. 120 mins.
What happens when grief turns from a temporary feeling into a permanent state? In “Natural Acts”, queer, disabled, interdisciplinary artist Perel and freelance artist and sign language choreographer Rita Mazza explore non-binary and non-linear forms of mourning, searching for strategies to make a sensual experience out of absence and loss. Using visual and narrative elements, the performance explores the effects of violence across generations, drawing the audience into the subject both emotionally and intellectually. In a space that appears to be upside down and turning in on itself, the events on stage are revealed and concealed in equal measure by massive fabric constructions. The artists' choreography oscillates between movement and gesture, action and dance, text and language. Alternative seating landscapes create the conditions for the interplay of closeness and distance, challenge and sympathy between the audience and the performers. The piece shows how trauma and loss influence the brain and consequently our everyday actions by keeping the “never past” past alive. “Natural Acts” questions the prevailing culture of remembrance by employing physical experiences and offering the opportunity to confront the dark sides of oneself and of society.
Cast
Dates
Past
Further Information
Visitor note
Notes:
Relaxed Performance, alternative seating options available
For blind and visually impaired visitors, an audio description is offered on all evenings, in which the performance is described in German. Headphones will be handed out in the foyer of HAU2. Part of this is a tactile tour that begins one hour before the performance. It is not necessary to register in advance.
We offer a pre-access tour including an Early Boarding before all performances, starting half an hour before the performance. During the pre-access tour, visitors can orientate themselves in the auditorium. The most striking light and sound effects are demonstrated so that they can prepare for the show accordingly.
After the performance on 29.9.: Artist Talk with Perel und Rita Mazza, Moderation: Dana Cermane
Credits
Production: Perel. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Visual Arts: Chaise Lounge “Do you want us here or not (MMK)”: Courtesy of the artist Finnegan Shannon and Deborah Schamoni
Hanging cocoons “The Nursery“ and plaster brains “Olympia”: Courtesy of the artist Itamar Gov and Zilberman, Berlin
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
Travelling to HAU2 via U Hallesches Tor:
If you are coming from Hallesches Tor underground station, you will have to use an alternative footpath from Wilhelmstraße / Hallesches Ufer junction, which is separated from the carriageway by a construction fence – the actual footpath is currently closed. Please note: the alternative route is also used by cyclists. Pedestrians should keep to the right. We therefore currently recommend that visually impaired or blind visitors come to the HAU with an accompanying person.
Arrival HAU2 via U Möckernbrücke:
When you leave Möckernbrücke underground station, please stay on the footpath on the canal side until you reach Hallesches Ufer / Großbeerenstraße junction – the opposite side is currently closed due to construction work.
