A Black woman with an indignant look is pointing her outstretched index finger at something behind the camera. She is wearing a black, cut-up top over a golden dress. Three other people stand in the background.

EuropaCamp 2024

Performance

Kainkollektiv

Black Eurydice

Tickets:

20/14 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, [k]-Karte ab 7 Euro)

Info

Recommended for ages 12 and up. In some places there are sudden, loud sounds.

Dates

Friday

4/26/24

8:00 PM

100 Min.

Friday

4/26/24

9:45 PM

Artist talk

Saturday

4/27/24

8:00 PM

100 Min.

Visual of the Zeit Bucerius Foundation Europe Camp: A white star against a red background. Inside the star is a clockwise arrow and dots.

EuropaCamp 2024

In BLACK EURYDICE / SCHWARZE EURYDIKE / EURYDICE NOIRE, kainkollektiv investigates the systematic exclusions that occurred with the implementation and emergence of European opera: the position of woman and women and the contemporaneous onset of colonial history. An (Afro)futuristic, feminist, and postcolonial counter opera will be devised from the analysis of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Orfeo”, which may possibly even be the first opera altogether, with its title only naming the male protagonist. Together with five contemporary composers from Cameroon, South Africa, Iran, Canada, and Europe, who overwrite the baroque music with visionary contemporary compositions, a new vision of a future for musical theatre comes up in the form of a digitally drawn live performance superheroine story.

Six women stand in front of a microphone. The woman directly in front of the microphone has a disco ball clamped under her arm. Directly behind her is a woman with a white cloud headdress. To the right are two women with large glasses.

A black woman in a golden jumpsuit walks from left to right in front of a dark, translucent curtain. There is fog behind the curtain and the woman is holding a bow and arrow in her hand. A person can be vaguely recognised behind the curtain on the right.

In the foreground, a woman is leaning up from a blanket on the floor. Next to her, another person in a colourful coat can be seen in the shadows. A blue face appears above the upper right half of the photo, like a reflection in a window

Two women stand in front of a microphone with their mouths open to sing. The one on the right is wearing a red top and is standing in the shadows, while the one on the left is wearing a pink tulle top and a golden headdress with clouds.

A black woman is playing a guitar in front of a dark background. She is wearing a light-coloured T-shirt and a large necklace. She has her mouth open to sing and a sad, desperate expression on her face.

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With: Kainkollektiv

By and with Anelisa Stuurman, Anna Homan, Antje Kuhfeld, Bianca Künzel, Catherine Jodoin, Edith Voges Nana Tchuninang, Fabian Lettow, Hannah Busch, Henning Streck, Immanuel Bartz, Kerstin Pohle, Melissa Müller, Mirjam Schmuck, Nima Aghiani, Pélagie Alima, Sarah Bigdeli Shamloo, Saskia Schalenbach, Silvia Dierkes, Richard Behrens, Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue, Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin

The Hamburg guest performance was supported by the ZEIT-Stiftung Bucerius as part of ZEIT FÜR WELTTHEATER, as part of the Europacamp.

The production was supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the Kunststiftung NRW, the NRW Kultursekretariat, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Bochum.

Kainkollektiv

Black Eurydice

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