1994

Vision Europe - a door for the stranger

4th Theatre Festival of European Avant-Garde 24 – 27 November 1994

Theater and dance from old and new Europe Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf – Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony

Festival Director: Ann-Elisabeth Wolff

Programme 1994

Framework Programme 1994 (selection)

Selected events of the supporting programme of the 4th Festival 1994

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Diari d'unes hores (Notes of a few hours) & Eco de silenci (Echo of silence)

Are they circus people or homeless people? Is it a party of derelicts or are they just in disguise? The dancers conjure up a Fellinian dream world in which illusion and reality merge. Play and life are one, just like in childhood. A shepherd - or is it a gypsy? - sings a song, and Argentinian tango rhythms characterise the surrealist action. Here, the harmony between people, between man and woman, seems to be less of a wishful thinking than a lived life.

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Südraum (Down South)

The excavator, resembling a menacing, violent animal emitting strange sounds, moves closer and closer. That is the way the ground is slowly pulled from under people's feet. Starting-point is the village of Breunsdorf: located in the south of Leipzig it is slated to give way to brown-coal mining and so shares the fate of that region's sixty or so communities. However the real issue reaches far deeper, it is all about the erasure of identities, about the uprooting of human beings.

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Cela (The Cell)

The darkness in the room is ghostly and the deep silence is almost frightening in its eeriness. Suddenly, a strong noise breaks in. Is this cell a prison or an expression of the imprisonment of the self? The desperate young men are almost still children. Were they forcibly imprisoned as soldiers or have they robbed themselves of their personal freedom through mysterious processes? And why does the long-haired beautiful girl, locked in a cage, give the impression of a wild tigress who has just been captured?

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Io

A person is oppressed by the infernal rhythms of technology. In an imaginary city, breathtaking video, film and slide images race by, testifying to the sprinkling of the media, the electrical appliances in the home, the hustle and bustle and the noise on the street. Escape seems impossible, and yet this is only one side of the coin, because the dream of a human existence cannot be dreamed without technology.

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