Ich freue mich

Christoph Bochdansky

Vienna/Austria
Figure theatre after a cantata by J. S. Bach

Company
The merchant of the moment, Christoph Bochdansky, is one of the best-known protagonists not only of Austrian, but German-speaking puppet and object theatre with his absurd and bizarre productions. He has worked with the puppet theatres Lilarum and Wilde & Vogel amongst others. As actor, director and set and costume designer he also staged his own productions for children and adults.

Performance
The aria Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod (I'm looking forward to death) from Bach's cantata Ich habe genug (I have had enough), a baroque memento mori, forms the musical axis for a mystery play between puppet theatre, popular theatrical farces and puzzling images; reformulated world views of and about death but also tableaux of strange and playful reveries. Primitive skulls or gigantic paramecia – when Bochdansky emerges from beneath mountains of costumes and creates new beings of bizarre beauty which all flirt with the beyond in a very human manner it becomes difficult to find your way back into reality.

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Set and Costume design, concept and acting: Christoph Bochdansky
Assistance and advice: Frank Soehnle, Michael Vogel
Music: Hannes Löschel, Johann Sebastian Bach
Choreography: Rose Breuss
Guitar: Burkhard Stangl
Technical apparatus, lighting: Gerald Pappenberger

When: Tuesday, Nov. 4th, 8.00 pm
Where: T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 4E
Duration: 60 minutes
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» Performance followed by discussion

2008


Ball
Bladder Circus Company – Budapest/Hungary
Corpus Hominis
paola bianchi – Turin/Italy
Death of Marquis de Sade – On the dark Road
Theatro Pantomissimo – Prague/Czech Republic
FiniFini
Cie Voix Off- Damien Bouvet – Neuvy Deux-Clochers/France
Fly
Vincent de Rooij & Daan Mathot – Amsterdam/Netherlands
Gobo. Digital Glossary
AKHE – Russia
Hares on Skates/ und übrigens kann ich fliegen
Anne Hirth – büro für zeit + raum – Berlin/Germany
Heinz baut – A heavenly drilling for knowledge
Georg Traber Produktion – La Vraconnaz/Swiss
Ich freue mich
Christoph Bochdansky – Vienna/Austria
International Student Film Festival sehsüchte
sehsüchte – Germany
Jakusch
Uta Gebert – Berlin, Germany
Keiner ist böse und keiner ist gut
Stine Hertel & Daniel Franz – Gießen, Hamburg/Gemany
Luftmangel
Ohne Zucker Dance Project – Moscow/Russia
Manifest Jaszczurki
Bretoncaffe & Teatr Wytwórnia – Warsaw/Poland
Mirrorminded Curiousitease
Djalma Primordial Science – France
No more yearning! Three Sisters
Carola Unser – Hamburg/Germany
Plug i Play
AKHE – Russia
Portrait
Ioana Mona Popovici & NANOHACH – Bucharest/Romania, Prague/Czech Republic
Rinderschlitzen
TART Produktion & theatertabs – Raum für vergängliche Kunst – Stuttgart/Germany
Throughout
Theater Gliuka – Klaipeda/Lithuania
Ticks, Ticks, Politics
Boca Loca Lab – Prague/Czech Republic
Windscapes
Olga Kumeger & Tilmann Dehnhard – Russla/Germany
Heart of Mine
BOBO in white wooden houses – Berlin/Germany

Contact

Address

T-Werk, Internationales Theater- und Theaterpädagogikzentrum
Schiffbauergasse 4 E, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Telefon

Phone: +49 331 73042626
Fax: +49 331 73042633