Zoukak Sidewalks

The Work of suite42: 2009—2013 + Fantasy Density
Work Presentation & Talk

Tuesday 8th, 2013, 7 p.m.

Open Episodes + Travelling Elements: For an experiencial, political, complex, poetical theatre practice combining textwork, movement, music and visual components.

After developing these methods over two years Lydia will share the experiences and present video examples of three theatre productions. As a director and dramaturg Lydia works in the context of post-Wall Germany, originially from East Berlin, and the postdramatic theatre dramaturgy after Brecht und Heiner Müller. Her international company suite42 focus on the effect of violence, war and migration on the individual and society, and have recently concentrated on working with authors from Syria, Palestine and Marocco.

Reality is limited to physical rules. History as a linear concept is dead and must be buried consciously. In our minds and dreams we surpass them both constantly and have our own clear, instinctive understanding for these processes. To access this part of the mind in the theatre we must achieve a similar density as our fantasy.

In a rational de-spiritualised society, in which individualization is encouraged through capitalistic mechanisms, a political conscience and individual freedom gets lost easily. As a life experience theatre offers an opportunity of becoming the author of a unique self-experience when partaking of the performance. Accessing the mind on the fantastic level can create an understanding that enters the rational level from behind and retrieves an independent happiness in the social achievement.

The two areas of practical exploration are live-improvised performance episodes that follow certain rules on the basis of established figures and relationships, and the multiple developing use of different elements: text fragments, positions and objects. The dialectic of improvisation versus representation on the one hand, and the use of elements in other than their original function on the other creates a tension that can lift the story outside of reality into a realm of sensual rather than rational perception. The dialectic approach becomes the connection point of intellectual work and practical playfulness.