Die Führung
Audio-Performance-Walk Social/Urban Movements Theatre & Performance“There are no innocent park sites,” concludes garden monument conservator Claus Lange. The Düsseldorf Nordpark, created in 1937, was laid out for a National Socialist propaganda display. It exemplifies fascist visions, overwriting, rearrangements, and misunderstandings: stemming from horticulture politics and urban planning.
Here, Düsseldorf choreographers Kathrin Spaniol and Morgan Nardi invite their audience for a walk through history, the present, and the future: passing the sculptures from the 1930s, the flower installations of the Sixties. Equipped with headphones and smartphones, we will be entering the park, listening to stories and history while watching virtual realities. Irritations will flare up throughout the park, time and again, reflections from the past. So, a view will be cleared for the landscape, the staged spaces, and coincidence.
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Artistic Direction, Choreography: Kathrin Spaniol, Morgan Nardi. Performance: Kathrin Spaniol, Morgan Nardi & Guests. Visual Digital Art: Pietro Cardarelli. Sound Design: Anton Berman. Props and Furnishings: Andrea Barba. Decor: Robin Junicke. Narrator: Andreas Spaniol.
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A Kathrin Spaniol and Morgan Nardi production; co-produced by FFT Düsseldorf. Supported by the Cultural Department of the State Capital of Düsseldorf, the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Kunst- und Kulturstiftung of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.