ESZTER SALAMON Red

In the organizer's words:

With aesthetic visual power and formal precision, Hungarian choreographer Eszter Salamon combines dance, video, sound and text to create stage works that are as smart as they are sensual. In addition to choreographies for large companies and her own ensemble pieces, she has created video works for exhibitions and performances in museums (also at the MK&G Summer Festival in 2017). In her latest solo work RED, which celebrates its world premiere in Hamburg and then travels on to Geneva and Paris, among other places, Salamon continues her exploration of the life and legacy of avant-garde artist Valeska Gert. The silent film star fled the Weimar Republic for exile in New York City, where the interdisciplinary artist, famous for her grotesque dance style and avant-garde theatrical approach, opened the Beggar's Bar cabaret before returning to Germany in 1947 to perform at the Berlin cabaret Hexenküche and later starred in films by Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff. Using Gert's anti-fascist poems, grotesque movement vocabulary and a lot of color, Salamon creates a performative manifesto of feminist art history in which punk aesthetics and the grotesque meet choreography, poetry, painting and music.

CONCEPT, ARTIST DIRECTION, PERFORMANCE Eszter Salamon TEXT Valeska Gert, Eszter Salamon SCENOGRAPHY James Brandily, Eszter Salamon SOUND DESIGN Cristian Sotomayor, Eszter Salamon PROJECT ASSISTANT Lívia Páldi TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT Roberto Cafaggini COSTUME Laura Garnier

PRODUCTION, TOURING Elodie Perrin ADMINISTRATION Alexandra Wellensiek PRODUKTION Botschaft GbR / Alexandra Wellensiek, Studio ES COPRODUCTION Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, La Bâtie festival Genève, Fonds Transfabrik, a Franco-German fund for the performing arts. RESIDENCES Kunstencentrum BUDA, Courtrai WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Paris - Ministry of Culture and Communication. SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - co-production support for dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Price information:

9 - 28 Euro (50 % discount with festival ticket)