This new work explores the concept of utopia, drawing from and responding to the societal crisis today. How does it feel to be a citizen of a society that is in decline? Which emotion is the most difficult to confront, anger, fear, or defeat? What is of most value, the fight or its outcome? Can one emerge a hero from failure? Who are the citizens to be praised today?
In those, yet-to-be-identified, societies, world citizens hear the last sounds of things familiar and learn how to accept the organic, fertilizing presence of chaos. They are confronted with an urgent demand; to invent new sounds, new images, and other languages in order to reveal the reality that is coming.
“Newtopia”. A discovery of a new land, where defeat transforms into triumph in a stunning show of failures. Humor emerges from our tragedies. “Newtopia”, a new place of justice, balance and beauty that reinvents new ways to fight and resist, to fall and stand up.
What is more heroic and impressive than this! Let’s give them a big round of applause! Dear audience, welcome to the unplanned fall into the future.
Concept & Choreography: Patricia Apergi
Performance: Alessandro Sollima, Andréa Givanovitch, Dylan Brahim Labiod, Jaeger Wilkinson, Jeanne Procureur, Luisa Heilbron, Paola Taddeo
Rehearsal director: Maja Poturovic
Light design: Frank Lischka
Costume design: Patricia Apergi, Birke van Maartens
Costume assistance: Celina Mayr
Music by: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Marihiko Hara and Hildur Guðnadóttir with Hauschka, Sam Slater, Jóhann Jóhannsson, BJ Nilsen &Stilluppsteypa
Music editing: Clelia Patrono
Production management: Maja Poturovic
Production: blackmountain/BODHI PROJECT, SEAD
Residencies: SQFARM./DE, SZENE/AUT
Supported by: Stadt Salzburg, Land Salzburg, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport.
Supported by the Austrian Embassy in Athens.