planet LUVOS
For over 10 years,
reflecting about human self-destruction has repeatedly and consciously
determined the direction of our dance research. The analysis of Manfred
Wöhlckes’ thesis of “social entropy”, the fantasy about the frightening
prospects of gene manipulation, the parable about a guilt-filled society
ossifying in silence, the diagnosis of the increasing loss of a sense of the
present through exaggerated expectations of being saved in the future, the
confrontation with the ineradicability of war and the collapse of all utopias,
and finally with the question of whether art is justified in view of present-day
humanitarian and ecological catastrophes – all this leads, if not to despair
and resignation, to an increasingly urgent search for a solution, or – if it’s
really too late for that – at least for the reason why it’s too late.
With planet LUVOS, the circle of these
questions is complete. It points – in a consoling way – to the part of us and
in us that we humans have neglected for too long, or even completely forgotten:
in that the downfall of mankind is described as a return to an all-organic
existence, in that individual destruction is not experienced as a loss but
rather as a harmonic merging into a larger whole. We accompany the last person
on Earth – a young woman – as she confronts the, at first frightening and
eerie, strangely disconcerting submarine creatures who in the end welcome her
into their still and harmonious world. What remains is at any rate larger than
mankind. (Editta Braun Company)
Direction
and Choreography: Editta Braun Performers: Špela Vodeb, Dorota
Karolina Łęcka, Andrea Maria Handler, Marcella Mancini, Katja Bablick, Sandra
Hofstötter, Martyna Lorenc Composition:
Thierry Zaboitzeff Dramaturgy: Gerda
Poschmann-Reichenau Choreography
assistants: Barbara Motschiunik, Juan Dante Murillo Bobadilla Light Design: Peter Thalhamer
Organisation: City of Women; In participation with:
Dance Theatre Ljubljana.
Supported by: Austrian Cultural Forum, INTPA – International Net for Dance and
Performance Austria,
EU Culture.
Price: €7, €5 (students
and pensioners upon submission of an identity card, and self-employed in
culture), unemployed free entry.
