LES ENFANTS DE BARBARIE
2008 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BÜHNE AARAU TOJO THEATER BERN From 1926 to the 1970s, the aid organisation “Kinder der Landstrasse” (Pro Juventute) separated at least 2000 Jenisch, Sinti and Roma children from their families and placed them in orphanages and psychiatric clinics. The Travellers’ concept of home and life was perceived as a threat, they […]
LES PARADIS BARBARES
2009 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN BÜHNE AARAU FORUM NEUE MUSIK LUZERN 5 performers and 3 asylum seekers. A play in the form of an opera with multiple narrative layers full of suspense, led by characters lost between fiction and reality, between music, dance, theatre and performance. Omnipresent, the soundtrack is elaborated like that […]
LES RITUELS BARBARES
Les rituels barbares 2007 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS ROTE FABRIK ZÜRICH BÜHNE AARAU SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN A musical theater based on the crime of the Papin sisters (1933). The crime on which this play is based is typical of a time when servants were considered only in terms of the use they could be put to. […]
A SOLDIER’S TALE
2016 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BÜHNE AARAU ARGOVIA PHILHARMONIC A youth militia takes ownership of the Faustian story and explores how the fairy tale can be told today. They know where the plug is in the old army riding arena. How a mixing desk works, and how to erect scaffolding. Producing sound recordings, eliciting sound from […]
MONTE VERITA
MONTE VERITA 2004 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN A general assembly of the members of Monte Verità. Including the welcome address by the president, the reading of the statutes, the cashier’s report… And an ambiguous relationship with the spectators: they are treated as fellow members by the actors. The commemoration of those missing is […]
PIANIST
2012 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS GASTSPIEL FESTIVAL Zürich solo for pianist without piano “pianiste” offers spectators an intimate and colourful alternative to the classical piano recital. Here, Astride Schlaefli uses “Bontempi” pianos made of orange, red and green plastic, cassettophones, harmonicas, music boxes, a megaphone, a pan flute, a melodica with a hairdryer, a record player, […]
SCHTRRR
2004 Memorable show performed in June 2004, of which only the final photo remains.
STEP ON NO PETS
2012 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS STADTGALERIE BERN Rituals are a basic feature of the art business. Openings, discourse events, artist talks, symposia, the awarding of prizes, grants, studio visits, self-marketing, networking, art fairs, off-spaces — the everyday processes of art are subject to unwritten but constantly recurring conventions, and for its various actors, success within the […]
WOLFSEIN ODER NICHT SEIN
2011 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BETTINA WEGENAST FRIDA LEON BERAUD / DALANG&CO Projektbeschrieb Puppet theater, Audio play, Performance Hunter or hunted…? What a question! To devour, of course! Prey, sacrifice, what nonsense. It’s useless. And if given the choice… even a writer can bite. The parable “To be a wolf or not to be”, is a […]
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