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TRESPASSING
Based on four different female characters, who speak in their text lines about the complexity of gender linked to identity, social interaction, power and oppression; about the interaction of gender with other things like race, class, culture, religion, sexuality and consumerism. In monologues, as separated beings, they give insight into their contradicting but daily routines.…
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DIFFERENT WORLD NEW MUSIC
SEQUENCES: beyond our intellectual understanding – poems from old projects get recycled and transformed to create meaning in new context. The poems serve as loud explorations of text through singing and spoken voice, screams, soft whispers and other vocal sounds that add to the interpretation of what needs to be communicated by the performers. The…
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THREE SECRETS
Returning to WA after successful productions overseas the EXISTENCE THEATRE (AUS/AT) invites you to immerse yourself in emotionally guided situations that comment on the many secrets that we hold on to. In this not to be missed performance boundaries between performers and audience collapse. Three characters touch on issues concerning their own gender, expressing how…
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HOTEL GUTMANN
The genre of the hotel occurs in many theatre plays, novels and films. With the Existence Theatre we approach this topic performatively and interact with our audience by trying to reach different levels of perception. We simulate situations in a hotel, a location, where we meet other individuals/strangers and hear their voices. While intentionally or…
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EXISTENCE THEATRE ENSEMBLE
© EXISTENCE THEATRE ENSEMBLE founded by bello benischauer The ENSEMBLE connects the artistic and extraordinary qualities of individual artists, who were ambitiously involved in previous AIP projects. In the Existence Theatre’s international context, we create the possibility for more dedicated and challenging productions, taking the EXISTENCE THEATRE to the next level. It is our pleasure to introduce the following Ensemble…
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BRUNNENPASSAGE
EIN SICH STÄNDIG NEU ERFINDEN in unterschiedlichen Umgebungen: der Workshop in der Brunnenpassage diente dazu, das Existence Theatre neu Interessierten zugänglich zu machen. ZUNGEN SCHREIEN – Ausdruck durch Sprache KÖRPER DÜRFEN – Gefühle durch Bewegung MENSCHEN BEGEGNEN – Freiheit durch Vielfalt Durch improvisiertes Experimentieren kann etwas entstehen, das es während des Prozesses zu entdecken gilt.…
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FASSADE
Performative play in five scenes for seven performers: autumn in 2242. Everything that exists is already history and there are visions of a morning, which is somehow already there, individually but differently, because everyone has his own ideas about tomorrow. Transcultural entity connects the many worlds of view and life styles of people around the globe.…
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DOMESTIC ROOM
household space, also relating to one’s own or a particular country apart from other countries, indigenous to or produced or made within one’s own country; not foreign; native, no longer wild; also as a pattern of behaviour, which involves violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting. ENGLISH | GERMAN | PERFORMANCES | VIDEOS | PHOTOS ENGLISH Elisabeth Eitelberger as…
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PERFORMANCE LECTURE
As artists we play around with the imagination of some and the interpretation of others. Leaving enough room for contemplation, different images may occur to different persons. With this performance lecture we tried to demonstrate how to create a moment of interaction between people (of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds) as a snap-shot in time,…
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FRÜHLING DER FANTASIE
english: REVIVING THE IMAGINATION Do we really connect with our inner selves, others and our surroundings and to which extent? At which point get self-critical explorations just an ordinary habit and is the everyday judgemental behaviour of others our entertainment and diversion, so that we must not take a closer look and can ignore our…
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THE PREVENTION
PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts) residency 2015 THE PREVENTION: LOCATING MODERN IDENTITY with a Temporary Ensemble Working on a creative process in the studio and in some of Perth’s public locations, for further development of the Existence Theatre practice during a residency at PICA from 16 February to 8 April 2015 WORK PROCESS | PERFORMANCE TEXT | PHOTOS |…