The Fall of Sleep
Performance Social/Urban Movements Theatre & Performance
We are supposed to find recuperation in sleep. We spend around one third of our lives in this state. Yet, more and more people suffer from sleep problems. Apps track our sleep to optimise it, yet it remains recalcitrant. The Fall of Sleep is a poetic ritual that invokes a condition between waking and sleeping.
Joining the artists will be musician Ted Gaier and Nicolás Kretz who will develop experimental soundscapes. Lullabies encounter echoes of club sounds in a nocturnal zone that celebrates sleep as a fragile common good, as a softly spoken promise in another world.
During the Hypnagogic Club Session on November 11, all those who are interested are invited to explore states between waking and sleeping first hand.
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cast
Concept / Artistic direction / Choreography / Music / Performance / Text: Montserrat Gardó Castillo, Petr Hastik
Music / Performance / Text: Ted Gaier
Music / Sound design / Performance: Nicolás Kretz
Stage decoration: Knut Klaßen
Production management: Karolina Maria Knoll
Dramaturgy: Annette Müller
Technical direction / Sound, lighting & video design: Jörn Nettingsmeier
Costumes: Arturo Lugo
Montserrat Gardó Castillo & Petr Hastik have been working as a performance duo since 2013. They studied at the Barcelona and Prague conservatories as well as at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Gardó Castillo additionally holds a degree in journalism, while Hastik has graduated in dance education. As performers, they have worked with NEUER TANZ/VA Wölfl, Heiner Goebbels, Tino Sehgal, Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Ben J. Riepe, Alexander Giesche, La Fleur, Alexandra Pirici, Subbotnik, Philine Velhagen, SEE! and others while also guesting at Kammerspiele Munich. They developed the BRUTOLOGY series as well as pieces such as No Man’s Sky, The Future was Us, and The Pumping Piece. As a duo, they realised interdisciplinary projects in different formats – from stage productions to dance and theatre contexts to video, online or site-specific performances.
credits
The Fall of Sleep is a Montserrat Gardó Castillo & Petr Hastik production. Coproduction: FFT Düsseldorf. Supported by Stiftung van Meeteren, the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste (The North Rhine-Westphalian State Office for the Independent Performing Arts), NRW KULTURsekretariat Wuppertal and the Cultural Department of the State Capital of Düsseldorf.
Supported by Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof within its residency program
With the kind support of Subbotnik and Showcase Beat Le Mot
