Elik Niv is an Israeli elite solider who left his homeland to establish a career as a contemporary dancer in Germany. On the stage he encounters the devil, like in Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, and must enter into negotiations with him: reality and fiction, a biography and historical facts melt into one. The fairytale-like delicacy which Stravinsky and Ramuz used in 1918 to deal with total war is insufficient in today’s era of increasingly distant and remote wars.Like an ego-shooter Elik takes us through video simulations, personal war experiences and beyond borders.

BY AND WITH Elik Niv, Johanna Lemke, Tatiana Saphir, Eva Löbau MISE-EN-SCÈNE Santiago Blaum CHOREOGRAPHY Johanna Lemke MUSIC Joe Howe, Santiago Blaum TEXT Eva Löbau, Santiago Blaum STAGE DESIGN, COSTUMES Cristina Nyffeler VIDEO PROGRAMMIng Victor Morales SYNTHESIZERS, SOUND DESIGN Joe Howe LIGHT Benjamin Schälike RESEARCH Elik Niv, David Magnus TRAINEE Nawel Benziane COMPANY MANAGEMENT Paola Bascón PR björn & björn

Produced by Santiago Blaum in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten and the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.. Special thanks to our media partners Jungle World und taz.die tageszeitung.