… weisse Lakritze aus Lammfell”
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TOPIC:
Childhood (between light-heartedness and harsh reality)
DATE:
2023
PLACE:
St. Elisabeth Church Berlin
MY SKILLS:
Live Visuals, Video Mapping, Resolume Arena, Adobe CC, Filming, Editing, Compositing
„… AND WHITE LIQUORICE MADE OF LAMBSKIN“
A MUSIC THEATRE PIECE ABOUT CHILDHOOD
For the music theatre piece “…and White Liquorice Made of Lambskin,” I developed a multimedia stage design that addresses the complex projection surfaces and dynamics in dealing with childhood as a life stage on multiple levels.The scenes are intentionally dreamlike, vague, and driven by an untamed spirit of play, inspired by counting rhymes and clapping games commonly heard on schoolyards and playgrounds. Simultaneously, the underlying reality of a diffuse experience of violence caused by an alcoholic mother remains palpably present in the performance. Childhood between light-heartedness and harsh reality, independence and heteronomy, projection surface and transfiguration.
Based on a cycle of poems by the Berlin poet Ulrike Almut Sandig, with compositions and sounds by Iris ter Schiphorst, performed and sung by the Berlin Girls’ Choir, the piece reflects on questions of independence and external control during childhood.
Concept, Direction: Ulrike Ruf – Composition, Sound: inspired by Iris ter Schiphorst – Text: Ulrike Almut Sandig – Choreography: Gabriel Galindez Cruz – Sound Design: Carlo Grippa – Dramaturgy: Patrick Klingenschmitt – Set, Costumes: Sabine Hilscher – Video Art: Regina Teichs – Lighting Design: Fabian Bleisch – Production: Kerstin Wiehe, Ayako Toyama – Assistant: Helena Palmer
With the Berlin Girls’ Choir (Choir in Development) – Clarinet: Uroš Rojko – Keyboard: Frederik Botthof – Conductor: Juliane Roever, Frederik Botthof