On a white stage floor, three people in rubber boots and everyday clothes shovel earth into piles.

Still Openhaus – It's Hard to Be Avantgarde

Performance

Lapsus Chevelü / Vanasay Khamphommala

Echo

Tickets:

18 Euro (conc. 9 Euro, [k]-Karte 9 Euro)

Info

Recommended from 16 years. Possible triggers: The show contains nudity, sexual gestures and allusions to suicide and death.

Past dates

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Saturday

10/14/23

7:30 PM

90 Min.

ECHO is a new project in a series of works with which French-Lao dramaturg and performer Vanasay Khamphommala and her company Lapsus Chevelü explore European myths from a trans* and postcolonial perspective. The nymph Echo is rejected by Narcissus and condemned to repeat forever the cries of despair of unhappy lovers. How to put a final, irreversible and universal end to heartbreak so that Echo can finally die in peace? ECHO is as funny as a failed suicide and questions the ambivalent relationship to erotic despair between the sublime and the grotesque, tragedy and sitcom, opera and love song. A project with Berlin-based queer artist Caritia Abell, among others, and with the collaboration of Paul B. Preciado.

A picnic is taking place on a stage. Three people in summer clothes sit, kneel and stand on a yellow blanket covered with filled plates, glasses and bowls. In the background are large potted plants and large piles of earth.

A naked thin person with long black hair and a short beard stands on a white stage. The person holds his hands in front of his genitals and speaks into a microphone attached to a stand. A silver bowl stands in front of the feet.

A person with long black hair stands in front of a dark orange background. The person is wearing a costume with only one strap, so that the hairy chest peeks out. The person is looking at a yellow flower in their hand.

On a dimly lit stage are white plastic sheets, two large piles of earth and a large potted plant. A person walks in the shadows along the back edge of the stage. A long French text is projected onto the wall.

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Press photo Lapsus Chevelü – Echo

With: Lapsus Chevelü, Vanasay Khamphommala

Dramaturgy,Texts Vanasay Khamphommala with Caritia Abell, Natalie Dessay, Pierre-François Doireau, Vanasay Khamphommala Live video performance Théophile Dubus Artistic collaboration Théophile Dubus, Paul B. Preciado Collaboration for performance Caritia Abell Music, Sound Gérald Kurdian Stage Caroline Oriot Light Pauline Guyonnet Costume design Céline Perrigon Direction Brice Trinel Management Kelly Angevine Production, Touring Olivier Talpaert / En votre compagnie.

In co-production with Théâtre Olympia - Centre dramatique national de Tours, TnBA - Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, Maison de la Culture d'Amiens - Pôle européen de création et de production, La Halle aux grains - Scène nationale de Blois.

With the support of the Région Centre-Val de Loire, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, Fonds Transfabrik, La Chartreuse - Centre national des écritures du spectacles, Fonds FAAR and technical assistance from Plateaux sauvages - équipement culturel de la Ville de Paris.

Developed in residence at CENTQUATRE - Paris in the programme "90m2 créatif" between Loge and CENTQUATRE-Paris. With the support of the INSTINCT - Berlin programme. Lapsus chevelü is supported by the Ministère de la Culture (DRAC Centre-Val de Loire).

Lapsus Chevelü / Vanasay Khamphommala

Echo

Past dates

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