LOIS BARTEL
RESUMPTION | SOLO PERFORMANCE
How do you tell the story of an event that throws all the usual order into disarray? In her solo show BÄRENLAND, Lois Bartel invites you to join her in chasing a story that constantly reinvents itself.
Inspired by Nastassja Martin's account of a life-threatening encounter with a bear and the subsequent hospital stays ("Believing in the Wild"), she takes us on a theatrical field exploration. She interweaves memories of her own formative experience with Martin's story, allowing the body itself to become territory. Autobiographical and fictional elements, dreams and waking reality, merge seamlessly. The storytelling, in fragile compositions of sound, language, image, and movement, becomes a performative strategy of reappropriation and transformation.
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Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Language: German
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Concept and performance: Lois Bartel / Research & dramaturgy: Verena Brakonier / Sound & composition: Hye-Eun Kim / Outside Eye: Ruby Behrmann / Lighting & technology: Sönke Christian Herm / Scenographic consultation: Yi-Jou Chuang / Photos & video: Marf Mabo / Poster design: Daniel Wolke.
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Resumption made possible by the resumption and guest performance funding of the umbrella organization for independent performing arts Hamburg, using funds from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority for Culture and Media.
