• Sat 25 11 2023 / 7:30 pm – 12 am •
WOY - A carnivalesque Sambópera in four acts
A free interpretation of Büchner's Woyzeck
With: Direction & Dramaturgy: ALEX MELLO
Collaboration: ADRIANA SCHNEIDER ALCURE
CHOR VOZES DO BRASIL - choir conductor : JEAN KLEEB
MARACATU COLÔNIA - musical director: ALFONSO GARRIDO
THEATER LUSOTAQUE (Theater group of the University of Cologne)
IJULA - intersectional YouthLab
Performers: BLACK PEARL DE ALMEIDA LIMA, JOTA RAMOS, THIAGO ROSA, TAIANA LOPES and DIANNA JACKSAN
Opera Singer: MAURÍCIO VIRGENS
Singer: DENISE KRAMMER
Costums: PANAMÉRICA TRANSATLÂNTICA (VIVI MÉNDEZ MOYA, DADO AMARAL, GABRIELA SALOMONE)
Interior Design and Props: Collective work
Assistant Direction and Workshops: LUISA PAREJA
Projection: ROBERTA DE LACERDA MEDINA
Video Documentation: JAKOB GEHRMANN
The evening and the performance itself are intended as a performative symposium that will begin with a spiritual ceremony. The performance intervention "Woy" looks at the classic work of German theater to talk about today, about the now, to talk about those who constitute their existence on the fringes. The common thread of the performance encourages the artists participating in the workshops to consider, in groups and individually, who is this WOY today? Is he a woman? A man? Is he a fluid gender? What are the debates that trigger their life experiences and biographies in society? The original play, an unfinished work, is about death, belonging, repression and extinction. Today, in 2023, these experiences, understood as marginal, take to the streets, to squares, to social networks, speaking of life, of salvation, of affection, of employment, of visibility.. Born in a carnival procession, our "WOYS" seek permission from Exu and Bacchus to invite the audience to dance, contemplate and chant strategies of survival and empowerment through the ritual of carnival.
25 11 2023
Introductory words 19:30
Performance 20:00-22:00 Uhr
DJ-Set 22:00-0:00 Uhr
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cäcilienstraße 29-33, 50676 Cologne
Free Admission
In cooperation with the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and the The Centre for International Cultural Education of the Goethe-Institut Bonn.
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