Fri17.5.2419:00
Thesis HfS Ernst Busch
maC Final Works

Leo Naomi Baur

The Disempowered

© Leo Naomi Baur

The Disempowered deals with unavailability. With the unavailability of the sick body, the unpredictability of one's own presence. The installative video work deliberately focuses on physical and emotional states, which are often pushed back into the realm of private fate, and testifies to the longing for shared experiences. In the field of tension between absence and participation, the audience is invited to temporarily inhabit the emerging space together. With the audience in the room, a choreography is created without live dance, a film without a screen, an audio walk without a defined path.

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Concept & choreography: Leo Naomi Baur
Dance in the video: Joy Atkinson, Kysy Fischer, Mariana Romagnani, Oska Melina Borcherding, Stefanie Alf, Therry Kornath
Texts & voices: neneh noï, Marwa Younes Almokbel
Sound: Rheremita Cera
Video: Leo Naomi Baur
Light: Andreas Harder
Audio recording & editing: Mattias Larsen
Stage design: Leo Naomi Baur
Dramaturgy: Jenny Mahla
Production: Stefanie Alf, Kysy Fischer
Mentors: Ana Lessing Menjibar, Naomi Sanfo-Ansorge

With the kind support of the team of the Einstein Professorship of Claire Cunningham at HZT Berlin, especially Angela Alves and Nadja Dias, in the implementation of this work as well as Ingo Mewes in the conception of the stage design.

Here you will find short biographies of the project participants.

Accessibility

  • The performance takes place on the ground floor stage of the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch. There is step free access.

  • This is a performance in a relaxed atmosphere that invites audiences to move freely in and out of the space, make sounds and movements throughout. At times it is quite dark in the room.

  • Various seating options including beanbags and mattresses are available to freely choose from. There is no need to reserve. 

  • Throughout the performance spoken texts in German, English and Arabic can be heard and visuals can be seen. Original and translated texts are available in the programme booklet. We apologize that there is no DGS translation.

  • The performance is not audiodescribed, but the spoken word and music can be experienced as an independent listening performance. Audiodescription has been used artistically in the process.

  • Pre-boarding and a touch tour before the piece are available on request. To register for this or if you have any access questions please contact: leonaomibaur[at]gmail.com

  • The Performance is 70 minutes long. On May 16, the performance will be followed by a moderated audience discussion in English spoken language. 

 

Event location: HfS Ernst Busch | BÜHNE UNTEN | Zinnowitzer Str. 11 | Berlin10115
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