The 2022 Expo: ERUPTIVA EXTRAVAGANZA – A Volcanic Disruption
Schedule
Sun Jun 19 2022 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm
Location
English Theatre Berlin | Berlin, BE
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This vaudevillian solo performance evokes a collective eruption that illuminates the Zeitgeist of the catastrophic anew from a neo-surrealist and volcanological perspective echoing the Dance on the Volcano of the 1920s.The volcano is an archaic monster and mystery. It catalyzes a collective sentiment of pent-up anger, encrusted hardenings, seething chasms and dissolves them all in a flaming spectacle. It unites decay and resurrection, filth and brilliance, unpredictable depths and catapulting heights – a striking and sparkling paradox.
With the solo performance ERUPTIVA EXTRAVAGANZA – A Volcanic Disruption, the performer Nolundi Tschudi impersonates the volcano as a drag-persona of the catastrophic. She dances on the edge of the abyss – dissecting the seductive power and bizarre poetry of the moment when everything threatens to vanish in destruction. In her lava glowing illuminations a neo-surrealistic scenario emerges, that dares to tread the fine line between vaudevillian lightness and performative, brute immediacy – unleashing an ecstasy that underlies the Zeitgeist of the 1920s and today.
(ExpLoRE: Work-in-Progress)
Performance, Text and Costume Design by Nolundi Tschudi (Germany/South Africa) | Dramaturgy by Marcus Peter Tesch (Germany)
The Expo Festival: A Showcase of Wahlberliner*innen is an annual festival that debuted in 2013.
Over the last nine years, the Expo has been able to present more than one hundred performances of new work by international artists who have made Berlin their adopted home. In doing so, it holds a unique position in Berlin’s vast cultural landscape as both a local and international festival.
Berlin’s Freie Szene, the independent performing arts community, is remarkable for its diversity of background, artistic and aesthetic practice, working method and philosophy. One of the Expo’s most important goals is to ensure that this is reflected in the performances that make up the festival.
Between June 15 and 25, 2022, you can look forward to twelve different productions; six full-length productions and six work-in-progress showings.
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Where is it happening?
English Theatre Berlin, Fidicinstr. 40, Berlin, GermanyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
