Memory combines science and performance in order to come to terms with circus under National Socialism.
Contemporary Viennese artists are made familiar with historically researched biographies of artists persecuted during the Second World War. These biographies are implemented in small performances, which are shown during the walks around historical places. Places that have been found through historical research and have a direct relationship to the lives of the persecuted artists.
There were quite a few „Spectacle“ in Vienna, a city with a rich circus history. The performative city walk visits the historic Viennese circus venues in the district of Leopoldstadt and sheds light on the glory and the dark sides of this „proletarian“ art form as well as the further development to today’s contemporary form. A performance between the past and the present.
Do what you are told? Not these women!
They defy traditional role models and assert themselves successfully in a male domain.
Pirates, the sea is ours!
A 250-meter-long red carpet – originally intended for an interactive performance – is cut into different sized parts in the wake on Covid-19 and thus converted into mobile stages in two municipal buildings. The image of artists and residents on a piece of carpet stands as a metaphor for “physical distancing” and at the same time for a unifying action that overcomes the barriers between those involved. The short film is also a contemporary portrait of two important municipal and social housing developments in Vienna, together with their special architecture and above all – with its diverse residents.
Team
Concept and direction: Arne Mannott and Elena Lydia Kreusch
Camera and cut: Christian Schratt
Music: Gammon
Artists: Arne Mannott, Christoph Schiele, Maja Karolina Franke, Ralph Öllinger, Ruth Biller, Sara Lanner
Assistant: Patrick Tilg
Production: Wohnpartner
Artistic Production: KreativKultur
Les Grands Airs Viennois
An evening full swirls and twirls across the stage. Singers, dancers and an Orchestra create an evening full of Viennese flair and charm with the help of the famous melodies by Johann Strauss, Leo Fall, Franz Lehar and many more.
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OUT-SIDE-IN is ego portrait’s current research project.
The performance we are working on is not a show in a conventional way, we understand it as a performance process.
All participants -the performers and the audience- can give information from their inside out, as well as take the outside information in. The aim is to create an honest dialogue.
Enjoyment, pleasure, hunger, desire.
Using the language of contemporary circus Momomento is looking for the enjoyment of all facets of life, going into the extremes and beyond. With music and dance, playful and breathtakingly risky, the four member of the circus ensemble explore the varieties of pleasure under the branches of a tempting apple tree.
Magic opera, Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, Masonic ritual with Egyptian mysteries, heroic-comic opera? Die Zauberflöte is heard more often and has been more frequently performed, discussed, queried and interrogated than almost any other work in the history of opera. It is rare for the mysteriousness and multiformity of a work to be adjured with such mantric intensity. It is equally rare for a work to enjoy such undisputed success despite all these debates – and for over two hundred years at that.
Just turning in circles is not yet a ballroom dance. Three women and three men from different generations therefore want to try new steps and dare to step on the slick floor of the free labor market. Hopefully they will learn leaps and turns, kicks and twists that this Plan B requires through competence analysis, job application training and goal-oriented continuing education quickstep by step.