an evening with
Concert + Performance Music & Sound Theatre & Performance
Alex Franz Zehetbauer transforms the format of the classical concert of vocalist at the piano, presenting an experimental performative approach that frees itself from the codes of the recital. Traversing different moods and registers, from poetic lullaby to folk song to pop rendition, An Evening with investigates the multiple roles of songs and their cultural impacts. In this performance, from which emanates an enchantment that sometimes slips into the absurd, he creates a closeness at once strange and familiar, stretching the song into various choreographic postures.
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Alex Franz Zehetbauer (born 1990 in Brooklyn) is a sonic choreographer, performance artist, and singer. Critics have called him: an angel, a swamp monster, and a red-eyed demon. He studied at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. Alex has been awarded the BKA Startstipendium für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Start Stipend for Music and Performing Arts) (2018) and the danceWEB Scholarship (2019). Recent works include: Brunnentroll (2021), a concert performance in public fountains funded by KÖR —Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum; wet dreaming at 52Hz (2019), AyH (2021/2023), and hearing the wild heart (2022), which were co-produced by brut Vienna. As of 2022, Alex is part of Freischwimmen, an international production platform for performance and theatre.
Concept, Songs, Choreography, and Performance: Alex Franz Zehetbauer. Collaboration Song Lyrics: Jen Rosenblit, Dez Miller. Dramaturgical Counselling: Jen Rosenblit. Outside Ear & Recordings: Christian Schröder. Performance Doula: Claire Lefevre. Piano Mentor: Han-Gyeol Lie. Outside Eye: Liv Schellander. Documentation: Ipek Hamzaoglu. Production Management: mollusca productions.
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An Evening with, as part of Freischwimmen, receives support from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the “Verbindungen fördern (Fostering Connections)” programme by Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (Federal Association for the Independent Performing Arts).
A co-production of Verein Wilhelmina & brut Vienna. In collaboration with Wien Modern. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, FREISCHWIMMEN, the production platform for performance and theatre, supported by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, HochX Theater, and Live Art Munich, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Schwankhalle Bremen, SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin, and Theater Rampe Stuttgart, officially operated by SOPHIENSÆLE GmbH, made possible within the framework of the „Fostering Connections“ programme by the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts and supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, The Brick Theater, ACT OUT, a project of IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by BMEIA, and Kunstraum Eindorf.