 | Showcase Beat Le Mot (D)
PARIS 1871 BONJOUR – C-O-M-M-U-N-E
Tickets | 65% performance
24% revolution
11% men
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The revolution is an image machine: since the end of the eighteenth century, expansive battle paintings have had their day – replaced by portrayals of historic moments that resolve situations of war and cast the brief moments of anarchy within a mould. Fateful necessity and inevitability, that is their message. Concrete events converge with their history and their consequences and become a metaphor that melodramatically exaggerates the political and social constraints. The idea of the portentous, all-decisive moment lives on today in comic culture and documentary photography.
”PARIS 1871 BONJOUR – C-O-M-M-U-N-E” is the last instalment of a trilogy dealing with failed revolutions. The rebellion and siege of Paris in 1871 becomes a representation that fails just like the revolution failed. Its only victory was in the form of the images that it pieced together so as to give meaning to the torn bodies, destroyed visions and forgotten fates after the fact.
The Berlin performance group Showcase Beat Le Mot, who prefer to be compared with a band so as to distinguish themselves from the working structures of municipal theatres, go about a consciously pathos-laden act of creation, with their accustomed anarchical forcefulness, in which the dreariness of the days of chaos is divided into mute light and noisy darkness.
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Showcase Beat Le Mot (D) 
Produced by Showcase Beat Le Mot
Co-produced by steirischer herbst, Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) & Kampnagel Hamburg
Supported by the Governingn Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs & the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media
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Austrian Première
Thu 14/10 & Fri 15/10, 9.30 pm & Sat 16/10, 7.30 pm
80‘
16 / 10 €
Talk following the second performance
Next Liberty
Performance, Text, Space, Costumes
Showcase Beat Le Mot
Music Einzelkind
Choreography Showcase Beat Le Mot & Dorothea Ratzel
Grafic Anne Luft
Projections Friedemann Hanewinckel
Buildings Atia Trofimoff & Christian Wenzel
Light Thomas Schmidt
Sound Paul Ratzel
Production director Olaf Nachtwey
Production director Dominik Jutz
Technical director Hermann Schapek & Martin Schachner
Technical director Next Liberty Richard Kornberge
Austrian Première
Thu 14/10 & Fri 15/10, 9.30 pm & Sat 16/10, 7.30 pm
80‘
16 / 10 €
Talk following the second performance
Next LibertyPerformance, Text, Space, Costumes
Showcase Beat Le Mot
Music Einzelkind
Choreography Showcase Beat Le Mot & Dorothea Ratzel
Grafic Anne Luft
Projections Friedemann Hanewinckel
Buildings Atia Trofimoff & Christian Wenzel
Light Thomas Schmidt
Sound Paul Ratzel
Production director Olaf Nachtwey
Production director Dominik Jutz
Technical director Hermann Schapek & Martin Schachner
Technical director Next Liberty Richard Kornberge
