A speculative narrative about beings of all kinds
Interactive Performance for story inventors and future dreamers aged 10 and over
What if humans, animals and plants were closer to each other? What if they were even related to each other? Half dandelion, half human; black rhino in the front, woman in the back. A person with fins? A computer with a heartbeat. A hybrid creature with new qualities. Around a digital campfire, consisting of flaming tablets, the performers of Turbo Pascal gather with their audience to imagine a world in which the human is no longer at the center of all things. Sentence by sentence, a story emerges. Ideas from the audience mingle with those of the performers. The story picks up speed—a jointly created fantasy that conceives the world differently.
Rattled by the daily bad news of species extinction, Turbo Pascal open up a co-creative space for collaborating with a young audience in their interactive performance »Kritter.« With words, fantasies, video projections, and drawings, the dialogical storytelling results in a joint science fiction. A space of thought for alternative narrations that in a both serious and humorous manner thwart Eurocentric, patriarchal perspectives.
Concept: Turbo Pascal
By & with: Angela Löer, Eva Plischke, Margret Schütz
Ausstattung: Janina Janke
Music: Friedrich Greiling
Lighting design & technical design: Gustav Kleinschmidt
Video: Fine Freiberg
Assistance & production management: Anna Konrad
Producing: Marit Buchmeier, Lisanne Grotz/xplusdrei
Coproduction: FELD Zentrale für junge Performance in cooperation with Goethe-Institut, Wajukuu Art Project and Wajukuu Kids Club with Am Freshia (Nairobi), Catholic School Sankt Franziskus Berlin.In the frame of the project »Storytelling für die Zukunft« by FELD Zentrale für junge Performance. Production and guest performance funded by the programe Jupiter – Darstellende Künste für junges Publikum of German Federal Cultural Foundation, supported by Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin.