Doppelgänger
Digital animation and robotics are among the most modern performance technologies. Yet they are also the latest incarnations of humankind’s oldest theatrical forms based on moving images—shadow theater—and on objects embodying the human form—puppetry. So, it should come as no surprise that the artists involved in this festival bringing together digital animation and shadow theater, puppetry and robotics have a shared taste for literary classics and epic narrative structures. Works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Kafka and Ramayana are on the program; so is one about an artistic genius of the last century, and another about Linz’s two most famous schoolboys. As a special added attraction: a fictional journey to Bollywood for a humorous, ironic encounter with Mumbai’s film industry.
WHAT // International theatre festival
WHEN // October 8 – 21, 2009
WHERE // Hafenhalle09
1n0ut: CPU (Central Processing Unit) - DER PROZESS
1n0ut: CPU (Central Processing Unit) - DER PROZESS
Copyright: Praxmarer Bidner
THE TRIAL: 1n0ut have found in Franz Kafka’s The TrIAl a world full of the loops, repeats, instructions and protocols which are familiar parts of every computer programme. In their hands, this classic text becomes the springboard for a stereoscopic real-time dance theatre piece. Virtual “doppelgaengers” of the performers and their movements appear hologram-like to interact with the real performers on stage and plunge an audience each wearing 3D cinema glasses headlong into a thrilling and disturbing visual environment. What guides people? How can the absurd be logical and the real illogical?
WHEN // 9, 10. October, 8 pm
WHERE // Hafenhalle09, Studio
Category: Festival, Theatre
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