Olympia Bukkakis:
replay

If any questions remain from the following information, please feel free to contact Hannah Aldinger at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event.

Duration

• approx. 60 minutes

Language

• little language
• English spoken language
• not necessary for understanding

STAGE

• dance floor and stage set completely in white
• Some scenes take place behind a gaze (a semi-transparent fabric).
• Stage elements (large hanging fabrics) are set in motion.

LIGHT

• multiple use of very cold or very warm lighting moods
• at times, strong use of contrasts and shadow play
• dazzling light, and at three moments strongly dazzling backlighting
• In two moments there are rapid changes of light.
• Towards the end there is a moment of flickering light.
• In several scenes it is very dark in the room.
• short blackout at the end

Sound

• During seating and during the first scene of the show: metronome ticking
• work with superimpositions and repetitions (rhythmic walking with high heels, use of an electronic loop machine, machine tapping)
• scenes with loud pop and club music
• In one scene, an opera aria (high tones) is played with background noise.
• Live cello playing mostly with electronic amplification. One scene experiments with very high, squeaky, scratchy and low, bass-heavy tones.
• Live singing (spherical tones, animalistic sounds)
• several times sudden silence

ATMOSPHERE

• Certain tensions and atmospheres (scary, funny, happy, encouraging) are created deliberately several times.

Other effects

• Fog (haze) is used several times at the back of the stage.

Audience area

• Seated grandstand
• 2 beanbag seats bookable
• 2 wheelchair places bookable
• During the show the audience area is alternately darkened and illuminated
• In one scene, the audience is requested to clap over several minutes.

Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.

Relaxed event
The shows on 3rd and 4th February are presented in a relaxed performance format.

Tickets

• Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
• Via the online ticket shop
• At the box office

You can also find more information about accessibility here.

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Olympia Bukkakis CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Am Ertl CO-DEVELOPMENT, PERFORMANCE The Darvish COMPOSITION, DRAMATURGY Thierry Tidrow MOVEMENT RESEARCH, DRAMATURGY, CHOREOGRAPHY  Maria Scaroni STAGE DESIGN Camille Lacadee SOUND DESIGN MINQ COSTUME Alexis Mersman LIGHTING DESIGN, TECHNICAL DIRECTION Bryan Schall Artistic + organisational collaboration Paul Niedermayer PRODUCTION DIRECTION Lisa Gehring

A production by Olympia Bukkakis in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. With the kind support of Fleetstreet Theater and Kampnagel. Media partner: taz.

OLYMPIA BUKKAKIS, Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering is a drag queen, choreographer, moderator and writer. Originally from Australia, she has lived and worked in Berlin since 2012, organising queer performance events such as Get Fucked, Queens Against Borders and Apocalypse Tonight. After graduating from the SODA Master at HZT in 2019 she presented: Gender Euphoria (2019 Tanztage), Under Pressures (2019 Gessnerallee), Boys Night Out (2020 Melbourne), A Touch of the Other (2020 Risk and Resilience Festival, Sophiensæle) and Too Much (2021 Sophiensæle). Her practice is situated within, and inspired by, the tensions and intersections between queer nightlife, contemporary dance and performance.