Ensemble uBu / mutants in music: II. becoming ubu

On a scale from Swan Lake to Moshpit - Where do you find yourself?

Please come to the table! The mood is right: More or less politely, the music dances and the dance plays with the questions in the room.

In the second part of his "Mutants in Music" series, uBu puts himself on the grill to find out: Do you even need a musical, dance or other identity, or can you get by without one?

How much do you love the uniform?

In "Becoming uBu", uniformed violins march through the remains of baroque table music with 500% readiness for duty. Following on from B. A. Zimmermann's black ballet "Musique pour les soupers du roi Ubu" ("Music for King Ubu's Dinner"), uBu quotes and mixes everything and himself.

Does your name determine your identity?

The ensemble struggles with its unsympathetic namesake - Alfred Jarry's iconic despot King Ubu - and, with the help of all available instruments and body parts, searches for itself again and again on the spiral scale from Ubu to uBu.

uBu catches fire, the mood boils over: music and dance mingle - the result is somewhere between a mutated piano trio and a derailed dance piece.

A danced concert performance by Ensemble uBu:

Anna Neubert (violin) l Magdalena Öttl (dance) l Esther Saladin (violincello) l Sophia Spies (stage + costume) l Antonia Stäcker (Outside Eye) l Christoph Stöber (piano) l Yves Ytier (dance) l Emi Noda (production assistant

Dramaturgy:

Valerie Wehrens l Diego Ramos Rodríguez

Production management:

Katja Kruglikova/PK3000

Lighting:

Jan Wiesbrock

Supported by:

Musikfonds e.V. / Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Ministry of Culture and Sciences of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Victor Rolff Foundation

Claussen-Simon-Foundation