»L’invitation – Die Einladung« (öffentliche Generalprobe)
Participants:
collectif barbare
Astride Schlaefli: Concept, Direction, Sound, Video
Armelle Scholl: Composition, Piano, Various Instruments
David Merz: Electronics, Various Instruments
Alina Rolli: Various Instruments
Hans Kaul: Various Instruments
Paula Kottwitz: Technical Direction
With: Franziska Aeschlimann, Natascha Wellmann, Armelle Scholl, David Merz, Hans Kaus, Alina Rolli and participants from Göttingen
Program:
Music by Armelle Scholl and Astride Schlaefli: various untitled pieces
Vladimir Cosma: "la vie en rose" / "la Paloma"
Mahsa Vahdet: "farewell"
Himzo Polovina: "Emina"
Lili Boniche: "Alger, Alger"
Vyacheslav Mescherin: "Siberian Melody"
Content:
An evening for everyone, with much music and people. A participatory music theater and education project with young people from diverse backgrounds, nationalities, genders, and sexual orientations. All cultures have their own celebrations and festive rituals. Being a host is a valuable trait worldwide. The collectif barbare, along with its ensemble of people from various backgrounds, invites the audience to a unique celebration that gathers everyone at a table and transforms the theater into a place of encounter with the unfamiliar. To pleasant background music, the audience enters the hall. They discover an inviting space with tables and benches, a setting that may remind one of a corporate party or a year-end gala. The piece, performed in the midst of the audience, begins with an orchestra and songs, surprises for the children, and announcements over the microphones. From this beginning, a multi-layered acoustic and visual journey develops. The room transforms into a company cafeteria or into the lounge of an airship, and suddenly we are part of a wedding celebration outdoors in southern Afghanistan. Like in a kaleidoscope, different life worlds unfold throughout this magical tour, theatrically elevating and making visible the reality of the participants. An invitation usually means that the invited person is welcome and that their presence is desired. An aspect that gains a completely different meaning when one realizes that a good portion of the participants of L'INVITATION, who now sit in the middle of the audience on the festive benches, are not exactly welcomed in many parts of Switzerland.
The public dress rehearsal is free of charge.
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