{"id":1655,"date":"2022-01-05T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbrady.at\/raetiae\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2023-10-10T14:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:38:22","slug":"requiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonmayer.at\/en\/requiem\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After having worked together for \"Sons of Sissy\", \"Requiem\" is the second collaboration by choreographer Simon Mayer and jazz\/folk musician and composer Matteo Haitzmann.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their interests meet in their shared preoccupation with death and ceremonies accompanying this final step in life. They are fascinated by the bombastic composition of a requiem mass but are also trying to appreciate the very intimate side of death and dying. What could a contemporary requiem look and sound like?
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The foundation of Simon Mayer\u2019s work and it\u2019s process is always a strong \u201ecompographic\u201c approach, that combines movement, the sounds it makes and actual music. And the coreography also takes a vital part in the acoustic experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also for this new work, Simon and Matteo will take this approach into the studio, while sticking to the proprium or structure of a classical requiem and investigating in which direction this will lead them. Beside coreography, movement, music and sound, the costumes and light\/technic are important elements, that will contribute to the optic, but also to the acoustic \u201ebigger picture\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their research will not be limited to the western tradition of the requiem, but look into practices of other cultures and aim at creating a universal ritual of letting go.\nThe performance will be a requiem composed for the men and women that were and are opressed by homophobic societies all over the world. Emotions like anger and grief are certainly a motor driving this work, but Matteo and Simon also want to celebrate existence. In paradisum, would there be such dichotomies like men and women, gay and straight, devil and god?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very central dramaturgic element of this\u201eRequiem\u201c will be earth \u2013 also placed on the stage - serving as the tool to transform and let go of the old. Overcoming prejudices and categories that devide people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work holistic and wholesome creative process, to free from old forms and heal a legacy, that is still working in many of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

K\u00fcnstlerische Leitung \/ Kompografie Simon Mayer<\/strong>
Performer Matteo Haitzmann<\/strong>
Live Sound Sixtus Preiss<\/strong>
Idee & Konzept Simon Mayer, Matteo Haitzmann<\/strong>
Musik & Sound Matteo Haitzmann, Sixtus Preiss<\/strong>
Dramaturgy Robert Steijn<\/strong>
Licht Design Sabine Wiesenbauer<\/strong>
Kost\u00fcm \/ Set Design Romain Brau<\/strong>
Recherche Manuel Wagner<\/strong>
Production Kopf hoch\/Anna Erb<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A coproduction by Kopf hoch and brut Wien, supported by Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien and BKA Kunst
Thanks to Lukas Froschauer, MA48, Gessnerallee Z\u00fcrich, Griessnerstadl, Arbeitsplatz Wien<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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