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Sink or Swim

Five musical rescue measures

Five composer-performers combine sound, image and performance into audiovisual compositions and dive into the subtext of 1960’s GDR photographs. The depiction of two lifeguards in action in a GDR textbook conjure up bizarre associations and blur the lines of the traditional roles of rescuer and victim. Who is saving whom? What did the photographers see?

IDEA, COMPOSITION, E-ORGAN, VOCAL, OBJEcTs Antje Vowinckel COMPOSITION, VIDEO, RoomcONcEPT, VOCAL, OBJECTS Steffi Weismann COMPOSITION, TRUMPET, VOCAL, OBJECTS Liz Allbee COMPOSITION, CHANT, SYNTHESIZER, OBJECTS Margarete Huber COMPOSITION, OBJECTS, VOCAL Anouschka Trocker LIGHT Ruth Waldeyer SOUND Ian Douglas CHOREOGRAPHIC ADVICE Takako Suzuki ASSISTENce PRODUcTION Christina Ertl-Shirley  ASSISTENCE STAGE AND VIDEO Georg Klein COMPANY MANAGEMENT ehrliche arbeit -  freies Kulturbüro

Produced by xlr-female in coproduktion with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. With friendly support by Theaterhaus Berlin. Special thanks to our media partner taz.die tageszeitung.

photo © Inge Elze, Heinz Kleinschmidt