KOLLAPSOLOGIE III:
DAS ATMEN DER OZEANE
Premiere
KOLLAPSOLOGIE III: DAS ATMEN DER OZEANE
Thomas Cornelius Desi (AT), Thomas Ballhausen (AT)
Discursive music theatre for a participatory audience
In the third part of KOLLAPSOLOGIE - a "theatre of encounters" for an aesthetically active audience - Thomas Cornelius Desi takes the audience metaphorically under water, as he devotes himself to the element of air (!).
DAS ATMEN DER OZEANE offers the voluntarily barefoot audience the opportunity to discuss the mythical micro-plastic continent "Atlantic Garbage Patch" and the aspect of "plastic" in our lives, before everyone sinks together into the depths of an imaginary ocean.
In order to prepare for everyday life in the underwater world, those present will re-enact life situations while holding their breath, to which twelve new sonnets by Thomas Ballhausen entitled "Atmospheres" poetically invite them. As in the previous episodes, an ancient Greek philosopher is once again featured, this time Socrates and his singing wife Xanthippe.
old timber to new fires
You break my heart/ and thus save my/ life/ teach me/ to breathe under water
while the floods rise/ heavy words/ heavy water/ conditions like without a costume
- Thomas Ballhausen
Duration: approx. 60 min.
Language: German
Note:: The willingness to actively participate is part of the performance.
EXTRA - Sunday, 22. September, 20:00Sinking in the Rain (ADMISSION FREE)
Short film and discourse evening on "KOLLAPSOLOGIE III: DAS ATMEN DER OZEANE
Performances & Tickets
Prices: Category 2
Full price € 22 | Reduced: € 12 [Available in the LUFT Combi Ticket & in the KLIMA Combi Ticket]
Reaktor
Geblergasse 36/40, 1170 Vienna
Artistic direction, music, staging: Thomas Cornelius Desi
Vocal lyrics: Thomas Ballhausen
Video work and device integration: Peter Koger
Underwater films: Mario Rott
Stage design: RUST - Laurenz Steixner & Markus Rupprecht
Performance: Romana Amerling (soprano), Roman Maria Müller (pantomime), Mario Rott (apnea diver), as well as the entire audience
Assistant Director: Jonas Nikolai
Production: Thomas Neulichedl
A production of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN.
THOMAS CORNELIUS DESI
Austrian composer, author and director as well as co-founder and artistic director of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN. In numerous productions, Desi has developed a new music theatre as a "théâtre d'auteur". At the centre of this work is the individual and the consequences of their actions. From this, Desi developed the format of the participatory "theatre of encounter". Inspired by the work of Jakob L. Moreno, the interaction of the audience through poetics and aesthetics enables those present to relate individually to each other and to the theme of the play.
Desi studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, was musical director of the Orchestra of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien, the company "Totales Theater Wien", of ensemble KlangArten, as well as artistic director of the group ZOON. His book "The New Music Theatre", co-authored with Eric Salzman, has become a standard work on new music theatre.
The project "Tarkovski. The Eighth Film" was nominated for the Fedora Opera Prize. For 2024, Desi has been invited to write a music theatre piece for the renowned "Accademia Chigiana" festival to mark the Puccini year.
