Which path should I choose? Where is my life going? What does the future have in store for me? The urgent need to explore something specific about the future has been pursuing humankind throughout their history.
Already in antiquity oracles were consulted, entrails of sacrificial animals interpreted, and constellations of celestial bodies observed. Practices such as reading hands or cartomancy exist up to this day. Contemporary philosophy produces new perspectives on the future, rooted in the critique of the existing system. The discipline of futurology uses scientific methods to make statements about the future, and even governments seek futurologists’ advice: Knowledge about the future guarantees power.
Set in an estranged desert landscape and accompanied by the compositions of Robert Lippok, Constanza Macras, together with ten virtuosi performers and three musicians, explores scenarios in which ascriptions of the future from different eras, utopias, and dystopias collide. What happens to visions of the future that become the present or even the past? And what do they reveal about us and our society?
CREDITS
Concept, text and choreography: Constanza Macras
Dramaturgy: Carmen Mehnert
Text: René Pollesch
By and with: Alexandra Bódi, Emil Bordás, Benny Claessens, Fernanda Farah, Rob Fordeyn, Johanna Lemke, Sonya Levin, Thulani Lord Mgidi, Daisy Phillips, Miki Shoji
Live Music by and with: Tatiana Heuman, Kristina Lösche-Löwensen, Katrin Schüler-Springorum
Composition: Robert Lippok
Stage design: Alissa Kolbusch
Costumes: Eleonore Carriere
Light design: Hans-Hermann Schulze
Sound design: Tobias Gringel
Mask and Make up: Spyridon Prosoparis
Assistant Director: Michael Heilmann
Dramaturgy assistant: Lili Hering
Costume assistant: Djuna Reiner
Stage assistant: Laurent Pellissier
Production Management: Jimena Soria
Production Office: Léo Pflimlin
Administration/Management DorkyPark: Xiao Yu
Distribution: Plan B – Creative Agency for Performing Arts
Foto: Thomas Aurin
A co-production by Constanza Macras | DorkyPark and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.
Co-producer: Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa.
Funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.
