Schwärmen
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free admission |
Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
Duration: 90 min |
German |
Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
Belongs to: After Nature |
“Blood red water rage. A swarm in the opaque blue. We swarm, fancy each other. What a happy coincidence that we have found each other. We break through all that has been and no longer remember them with indulgence. We make ourselves free. We become free. Our will is earth change. We slip out of the old plastic life and strive towards the sun, which is now also called death. And we scream with rage: at those who look away and take away our future with their ignorance. But now comes our time. The time of the rebels. Now comes our time of compassion.”
In the performance Schwärmen (“Swarming”), the inclusive ensemble of the Young RambaZamba Theatre stages a play about feelings in the face of the impending climate catastrophe. The young ensemble members developed Schwärmen themselves. At the centre of their search for a way to deal with their climate emotions, they place an often despised animal: the carrion-eating hyena. Against the backdrop of man-made climate change, the young actors and actresses ask whether this creature, with its strength, femininity and endurance, can be a symbol for ushering in a new era of the world.
Charlotte Ausan, Merle Bäucker, Daniel Beesk, Marula Bröckerhoff, Janka Claassen, Louise Dessau, Csilla Fehér, Clemens Frings, Pari Ghashghaie, Setareh Hashemi, Leander Helm, Maxim Komarchuk, Leif Lapuks, Lotte Latscha, Magnus Materson, Louise Moudlaf, Wanda Reinhardt, Ronja Schindler, Aliha Share, Anouk Spannenkrebs, Long Tran, Niklas Ufer, Maya Vehmeier
Idea/Concept/Direction: Kirsten Burger
Stage: Julia Krenz
Costume: Dering van Dieken / Carlotta Dering, Marlene van Dieken
Animal masks: Via Werkstätten & Julia Krenz
Choreography: Marula Lu Bröckerhoff, Lilly Pöhlmann
Sound collage & sound design: Michael Vajna
Sound recordings: StudioB / Björn Roth
Artistic collaboration: Janina Klinger
Assistants: Pauline Fuchs, Jule Schweitzer
Stage design assistance: Isabelle Rieken
Interns: Lilli Deuster, David Zaldivar
Project management: Kirsten Burger
Kirsten Burger is a mediator, author, theatre director, filmmaker and actress. After studying liberal arts in Vienna, interdisciplinary studies in Hamburg and at the Physical Theater in Berlin, she worked as an actress for various stages, including the Deutsche Oper and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Since 2012, Burger has realised theatrical interventions, experimental and essay films in various contexts and with people from a wide range of milieus, cultures and contexts, especially those that are usually not sufficiently visible. Her works deal with socio-critical and socially relevant themes and are characterised by their interdisciplinary and cross-genre approach. Since 2022, she has directed the young section of the Rambazamba Theatre, Berlin, in which young people with and without disabilities work together.