Participatory performance
Thematic series Common Struggles
Simone Gisela Weber

The city is transformed into a temporary, kilometer-long collective body. People connect with their environment: they transform themselves into animals, creatures and objects. Now it's time to join in or leave the city! Carnival - an exuberant celebration of community? A huge drinking binge? A reflection of society or just like every year?
In the performance "Everyone's Joy, No One's Sorrow", performers Simone Gisela Weber and Juli Frodermann join the audience in a search for forms and ideas of community that are practised in Central European carnival traditions. The interactive performance is an invitation to merge carnival with post-humanist ideas.
merge. In a choreography of dance show, culinary art, masquerade and conversation, we examine carnival as a space of possibility: What kind of community is created when we not only perform rituals, but also question and rethink them? Can we understand carnival as a practice of transformation that connects us with other beings, perspectives and realities?
A celebration of transformation! Or a culinary get-together.
Put on the mask. Be part of it.

Everyone's Joy - No One's Sorrow is a work in progress of a longer research project on Central European carnival traditions that Simone Gisela Weber and Sophia Keßen have been conducting since 2024. As part of Common Struggles, we are realizing a first staging attempt.

Languages: German and English
Duration: approx. 90 minutes

The research was supported by the research grant of the Fonds Darstellende Künste. The realization of the work in progress was made possible by the support of the Jan van Eyck Academie

CONCEPT, RESEARCH, CHOREOGRAPHY Simone Gisela Weber
PERFORMANCE Simone Gisela Weber, Juli Frodermann
CONCEPT, DRAMATURGY AND RESEARCH Sophia Maria Keßen
SOUND, MUSIC Juli Frodermann
COSTUME AND MASKS Simone Gisela Weber in collaboration with Giulia Cauti
ROOM Simone Gisela Weber in collaboration with Juli Frodermann
OFF- VOICE Carla-Frieda Nettelnbreker, Sophia Maria Keßen, Juli Frodermann, Simone Gisela Weber

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