Concept & direction: Simone Aughterlony, Michael Günzburger / Creation & performance: Bast Hippocrate, Pierre Piton, Adél Juhász / Performance (Berlin): Thomas Vantuycom, Pierre Piton, Adél Juhász / Musical composition: LABOUR – Farahnaz Hatam, Colin Hacklander / Architectural design: Nele Dechmann / Lighting design: Joseph Wegmann / Dramaturgical advice: Jorge Leòn, Saša Božic / Stage direction: Jan Olieslagers / Technical direction: Marie Prédour / Costume design: Marquet K. Lee / Production, administration: Umar Hallawi / Stage construction: SLS Illusion – Silas Meier / Photography: Simon Courchel / Egg development: Simon Callens / Translation: Brigitte Helbling / Production coordination: Marc Streit
Simone Aughterlony & Michael Günzburger
UPROAR
- Performance
- Dance
75 mins.
“UPROAR” is an immersive performance which summons the highly relevant figure of the Chimera as an expressive embodiment, expanding the horizon of what it means to be plural. With numerous responsibilities, fantasies and realities all at once, antiquities Chimeric figure – part lion, part goat, part snake – celebrates the value and tethering of three or more.
Towards a body politic that embraces the un-rendering of determined entities, Aughterlony’s choreographic language inscribes contradictory and temporary fusions of contemporary chimeric figures. Visual art collaborator, Günzburger practices choreography as a spontaneous event designed by a set of conditions invited to the printing surface. Together with their collaborators they take pleasure in the erotics and recognition of distinct parts alongside the irrefutable combination of complex organisms. Though temporary, the extra-ordinary emergence of these singularities reveals transitory solutions in flux, acknowledging their interdependence as a flourishing act.
Sound propagation materials shaped into impressive architectural structures form an enclosure for the study and imagination of a creature to come. Attention to sound by Berlin duo LABOUR, strategizes an hallucinatory experience. Taken apart, the movement of these ‘wall figures’ transition from an enclosure to an expanded and flexible space. In this sense, a process of dismantling what was previously an enclosure gives permission for any number of spatial chimeric proposals or mirage-like sightings to take shape. The question of positionality and perspective is renegotiated as the performers navigate feelings of bewilderment and awe. “UPROAR” is the turmoil. The impossible is not opposed to the real, the impossible composes with the real and promises a trans*futurism of the wildly imaginative.
Cast
Dates
Past
Further Information
Visitor note
Credits
Production: Imbricated Real. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center (Lausanne), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zürich). Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Swiss Arts Council – Prohelvetia, Gessnerallee, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Landis and Gyr Stiftung, Migros Kulturprozent Zurich, Muzeum Susch, La Becque.
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
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Latest information for arrival:
There is currently a construction site on Hallesches Ufer between Wilhelmstraße and Möckernbrücke underground station. There is a divided replacement route for pedestrians (right) and cyclists (left), which are separated by a yellow ground line. The carriageway is narrowed to one lane.
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.
