Host Club - Last Art standing / bodytalk

In the organizer's words:

The group Bodytalk presents their interactive dance theater piece "Host Club" - developed during a residency at the EISFABRIK.

Embark on an extraordinary and provocative journey that pushes boundaries between stage and reality, exploring the dark matter of culture.

Inspired by a successful business model from Japan, where charming men fulfill the wishes of female guests, "Host Club" takes a satirical look at audience development strategies and success mechanisms. What can artists learn from the art of seduction and business?

Bodytalk focuses on radical participation - or rather, "party participation": a happening becomes a "Happyning" in which wishes are fulfilled even before they are expressed. The audience is challenged to question its role as consumer, critic and actor.

"Host Club" is more than just a play: it is a MONEYFESTO that provocatively negotiates the connection between art, commerce and culture. Throwing coins on stage? Change as a symbol of change? Or hearts as the currency of a "heartcore" evening? The performance plays with such questions - humorous, biting and always close to the edges of the uncomfortable.

The slogan "Put your money in the arts / you will always be the winner " - inspired by Kain Karawahn's 1987 performance in Wall Street - runs like a common thread through the evening. Because art needs investment: emotional, creative and sometimes also financial.

Experience an evening in which the theater becomes a stage for the big questions of art and society. Living in the host age, feeling like a hostage? Come and find out!

bodytalk in co-production with Eisfabrik Hannover and Theater im Pumpenhaus

Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Münster