The world is breaking up. Everything is cancelled: glaciers and certainty. The angel of history. The middle between right and left. The shades of grey, the colours.
A rosy future. As if we were standing at the station and all the trains were cancelled.
Waiting is a basic human experience and can be experienced in different states; from waiting in silence to the nervous excitement of waiting indefinitely. In her new performance, Maren Strack explores four different states.
Silent waiting stimulates listening; delicate sound images turn into hectic, exploding choreographic fits. Waiting annoys and irritates to the point of anger. Waiting can also be liberating. The faster we race towards the abyss, the more pausing becomes an act of resistance, a saving straw. Purposeless time. Descent. Reflection. Hope.
Performance: Maren Strack
Artistic direction: Johan Lorbeer
Sound direction, composition: Kerstin Lücker
Stage design: Peter Friedrich
Co-costume: Molly Raak
Lighting design: Fabian Bleisch
Photography: Uwe Arens
Production dramaturgy: Mario Stumpfe
Duration: 50 min.
Supported with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.