Memorial forest
Seestadt 1220 Vienna
Georg Blaschke & Matthias Kranebitter
Dense wood
Large-scale theatre for four performers, orchestra and electronics with the participation of the Black Page Orchestra
Memories do not simply disappear. In remembranceAspern forest, on the eastern edge of Seestadt, remind us of the 65,000 trees in memory of just as many murdered Jewish Wienerinnen und Wiener in der NS-Zeit.
Musically and choreographically, DICHTES HOLZ an area between clearing, forest, pond and meadow, criss-crossed by historical layers and all thedaily movements. Georg Blaschke and Matthias Kranebitter design together with the Black Page Orchestra a large theatre in the middle of this countryof the world. Archaic states, images and sounds stir on the unconscious of the place, reinforcing itsand bring the hidden through voice, Body and sound into the consciousness of the audience. The forest transforms into a place of listening, where the past never falls silent.
The Aspern memorial forest
The memorial forest on the edge of Seestadt Aspern was planted in 1987 by around 400 Viennese schoolchildren on the site of a former German air force airfield. The 65,000 trees commemorate the same number of Jewish Viennese who were murdered during the Nazi era. In 1988, the City of Vienna placed the first public memorial stone for the victims of the Shoah here. In the course of urban development, the forest was reforested and now serves as a local recreation area.
A co-production of M.A.P. Vienna Movement Art Programmes, Musiktheatertage Wien and the Black Page Orchestra
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Credits
Artistic direction, choreography:
Georg Blaschke
Composition, musical direction:
Matthias Kranebitter
Performance:
Alina Bertha
Elda Gallo
Andras Meszerics
Maartje Pasman
Music:
Helene Kenyeri - Oboe
Teresa Doblinger - Clarinets
Jason Pfiester - Horn
Melissa Danas - Horn
Chloe Ryo - Trombone
Juan Pablo Trad Hasbun - double bass
Spiros Laskaridis - trumpet
Niko Bozek - tuba
Maria Chlebus – Schlagwerk
Lighting design and technology:
Bartek Kubiak
Costumes:
Hanna Hollmann
Production M.A.P. Vienna:
Sophie Freimüller
Photo:
Maximilian Weber
With the kind support of the City of Vienna's Department of Cultural Affairs and the bmwkms.
Bios
Georg Blaschke lives with his family in Seestadt in Vienna and works as a freelance choreographer, art producer and dance performer. As a lecturer for contemporary dance training, he teaches at festivals, universities and conservatories for dance and performing arts. The specific method of his teaching always incorporates the somatic practice associated with the respective projects. The current productions are particularly influenced by the evolutionary background of the human body, its archaeological significance as a found object and its forms of representation in the visual arts and are usually developed as interventions specifically for unconventional performance spaces. The choreographic language crystallises in the close interplay of movement research with video, light, costume and sound design.
Current projects: black / Extinct Choreography / Risse / Gras
www.georgblaschke.com
Matthias Kranebitter (*1980 in Vienna) studied electro-acoustic composition in Vienna with Dieter Kaufmann and German Toro-Perez, media composition with Klaus-Peter Sattler, postgraduate composition in Amsterdam and in Graz with Alexander Stankovski and Beat Furrer.
His music thematises aspects of our media society with its flood of information. It is characterised by a high degree of density and heterogeneity, the inclusion of the most diverse (un)musical materials as a de-hierarchisation and relativisation of dogmas and taboos. He works increasingly with electronics and new media.
His works have been honoured with the 1st Prize at the Gustav Mahler Competition 2006, 1st Prize Project Holland Symfonia Gaudeamus Music Week Amsterdam 2009, Impuls Composition Prize Graz 2013, Publicity Award of Austro Mechana 2013 and the City of Vienna Promotion Prize 2014.
In 2015/16 he received the scholarship of the Young Academy of the Academy of Arts Berlin, in 2020 the Erste Bank Composition Prize of Wien Modern and Klangforum Wien as well as the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart, and in 2022 the Ernst Krenek Prize of the City of Vienna.
Previous collaborations have taken place with ensembles such as the Belgian Nadar Ensemble, Decoder Ensemble Hamburg, Ensemble Mosaik Berlin, Ensemble Garage Cologne, Talea Ensemble New York, Ensemble Phace, Klangforum Wien or RSO Vienna.
He is co-founder of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival and artistic director of the Black Page Orchestra.
www.matthiaskranebitter.com
Playing times
24 September 18:00
26 September 18:00
27. September 15:00
27 September 18:00
26 September 18:00
27. September 15:00
27 September 18:00
Venue
Languages
German / English