DARUM - Victoria Halper and Kai Krösche, Austria/Germany
Oct. 17–20 | Videnie
The performance combines theater, performance art, and virtual reality to transport the audience into the abandoned spaces of an imaginary first metaverse. The audience steps into the role of an ‘out-sourced freelancer’ for the fictional multibillion-dollar corporation IRL (Imaginary Reality Landscapes). As freelancers, they must decide which abandoned worlds still deserve to exist in the virtual utopias of tomorrow’s metaverse– and which should be permanently erased.
Georgia Tsangaraki, Greece
Oct. 22 | 8:00 p.m. | Toplocentrala, Hall 1
What happens when theater becomes a ritual? “In Between #2” is a journey through rhythm, movement, and collective experience, inspired by Euripides’ “The Bacchae.”
Simona Dabija, Deyan Georgiev, co-production Moving Balkans, Art Link Foundation (BG) & The National Center for Dance Bucharest (RO) Duets Across Borders
Oct. 23 | 7:00 p.m. | Derida Stage
Two realities and two temporalities meet–our lives, our meeting, and the work we are creating together. On stage, we seem to carry each other and co-exist in a suspended time. From this proximity, a familiarity between our bodies begins to emerge.
Faber Teater e Mario Chiapuzzo, Italy
October 24 | Start: 5:30 p.m. | From Alexander Nevsky Square to Toplocentrala
Everyone is on a bicycle in this a-typical show, riding across space and time on the river of the Twentieth Century. The masks, our guides through time, take the spectators by the hand accompanying them through the life of Fausto Coppi, the Champion, and Anifele, the African mosquito that stung him. It is the parable of a man gradually becoming part of each story. A story that is daily and heroic at the same time, with an ironic bite.
IMPORTANT: Audience members must bring their own bicycles. The performance will begin at St. Alexander Nevsky Square and conclude in the area in front of Toplocentrala.
an immersive flamenco-theatre performance
Oct. 24 | 7:00 p.m. | Toplocentrala Hall 2
What happens when two actors try to portray Don Quixote and Sancho Panza… through flamenco?
The result is “A Story of Passion”—a blend of theater and flamenco, reality and imagination, in which the two actors embark on the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho, switch roles, sing, dance, and draw the audience into their wild performance.
Vidina Popov, Germany
Oct. 24 | 8:00 p.m. | Toplocentrala, Hall 1
Can a Romani woman become a superstar in Vienna? How is it that an intellectual discovers a sense of pride in her old “homeland” only after arriving in Austria? What do so-called “roots” have to do with the second or even third generation? And how does the narrator feel as she constantly jumps between worlds before finally arriving in Berlin?