Sieg über die Sonne
Victory over the sun
Performance Music & Sound Theatre & Performance
More than one century ago, avant-gardists dreamt about a radical future art with the opera “Victory over the Sun”. Yet its 1913 premiere resulted in scandal, and the piece was removed from the programme after one performance. Now, this lost work has been recreated. Artists from Berlin, Tallinn and Tel Aviv unleash a gleaming game of sound, bodies and light quanta.
Kazimir Malevich and a group of avant-gardists wanted to sever all ties to tradition and convention in 1913. Their futurist opera “Victory over the Sun” was slated to ring in a new age in art and society – and it was made to provoke, with its dream of a centre-less universe. Today, only fragments of this work remain.
Performance collective Showcase Beat Le Mot initiated a European collaboration to resuscitate these fragments and to pursue the ancient along with the newest provocations. Together with their audience, they want to listen for the echo waves of a future that was dreamt up in the past.
cast
Artistic direction, Concept & Realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot
Music/Composition: Maya Dunietz
Music/Performance: Soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop (Mari Sawada, Malin Grass, Ildiko Ludwig, Isabelle Klemt, Niklas Seidl)
Acting/Performance: Liisa Saaremäel, Kristina Preimann, Kristel Zimmer, Edgar Vunš, Karl Birnbaum, Markus Andreas Auling, Herman Pihlak (Von Krahl Theatre)
Decor: Knut Klaßen
Technical Direction: Bart Huybrechts
Artistic Assistance & Performance: Christopher F. Hahn, Daniel Meir, Eva Hartmann, Florian Feigl, Melisa Su Taşkıran, Misha Shenbrodt
Production Management: Olaf Nachtwey
credits
A Showcase Beat Le Mot production with Von Krahl Theater Tallinn and HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Support granted by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Goethe Institute International Co-Production Fonds.
As part of the Alliance of International Production Houses, it receives grants from the Fonds Darstellende Künste from funds provided by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Supported by Kunststiftung NRW.