Taste of Ra
Wednesday, 11-25-2009 to Saturday, 11-28-2009
Premiere: November 19th, 2009, 8 p.m.
Further Shows:
November 20th to 22nd
and November 25th to 28th, 2009
sophiensaele, Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin
Tickets 13 €/ reduced
8 €
Ticket Phone: 030 283 52 66
www.sophiensaele.com
In some far off place Many light years in space I'll build a world of abstract dreams And wait for you (Sun Ra)
After suffering various injustices, African American musician Sun Ra reinvented himself: he claimed to be from the planet Saturn and only a guest in this world, which was so unacceptable to him. He created an entire personal universe of theosophy, Egyptology, afro-futurism and jazz music. Today, we are all expected to take our lives into our own hands and mould ourselves into our own image. We are our own futurologists. At the same time, most social, political and aesthetic theories today freely make use of the preposition ‘post’ - postmodern, post-history, after 68... But isn’t it high time to say goodbye to the epilogical age and turn our gaze towards the stars?
In "A Taste of Ra”, a collective of dancers, actors and skeptics explore Sun Ra’s artistic strategies in order to question our understanding of the relationship between the present and the future. In dance and text, they formulate their doubts and possible solutions. But careful! There may also be some aliens waiting along the way, for space is the place - today more than ever!
Concept: Christoph Winkler By & with: Eugene "U-gin" Boateng, Sarah Grether, Martin Hansen, Anna-Luise Recke, Christine Joy Ritter, Jörg Schiebe Stage and Costumes: Tal Shacham Stage and Costume Assistant: Lydia Merkel Training: Peter Trabner Dramaturgy & Production: ehrliche arbeit - freelance office for culture
A production of Christoph Winkler in co-production with Tafelhalle Nürnberg in the KunstKulturQuartier, Sophiensaele and LOFFT Leipzig. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by Eliashof.
