Panayiotis Kokoras / Andrius Katinas / Nanni Vapaavuori / Synaesthesis: The Urban Tale of a Hippo – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Panayiotis Kokoras / Andrius Katinas / Nanni Vapaavuori / Synaesthesis: The Urban Tale of a Hippo
20€ / 25€
Ca. 2 h 20 Min, with interval
MaerzMusik 2025
Two Double bills:
17:00: Ute Wassermann: The Art of Camouflage, Hochzeitssaal
18:30: Panayiotis Kokoras / Andrius Katinas / Nanni Vapaavuori / Synaesthesis: The Urban Tale of a Hippo, Festsaal
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20:00: Ute Wassermann: The Art of Camouflage, Hochzeitssaal
21:30: Panayiotis Kokoras / Andrius Katinas / Nanni Vapaavuori / Synaesthesis: The Urban Tale of a Hippo, Festsaal
Tickets from February 2025 via berlinerfestspiele.de/maerzmusik
As part of the Berliner Festspiele's MaerzMusik festival, this evening's two works bring the animal world to the stage and blur the boundaries between genres. In Ute Wassermann's The Art of Camouflage, the participants weave themselves into a speculative habitat. The performers interact with resonances of poisonous green, glowing, water-filled aquariums or create mutations between human and amphibian voices with mini loudspeakers and brass megaphones. The concert performance The Art of Camouflage in the Hochzeitssaal will be followed by the musical theater The Urban Tale of a Hippo, which explores posthuman states through instrumental and electronic sounds and will be performed by the Synaesthesis ensemble.
Viola: Monika Kiknadzė
Cello: Arnas Kmieliauskas
Flute: Vytenis Gurstis
Clarinet: Artūras Kažimėkas
Saxophone: Arminas Bižys
Piano: Marta Finkelštein
Composition: Panayiotis Kokoras
Direction: Andrius Katinas
Light: Nanni Vapaavuori
Costumes: Morta Nakaitė
Drone: Domantas Kancleris
Producer: Operomanija
Co-producing partner: Synaesthesis
The Urban Tale of a Hippo is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to Germany.