STAGES OF CRISIS by Constanza Macras

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In 2013, Constanza Macras | DorkyPark created the piece “Forest: The Nature of Crisis”, a piece that took as point of departure the romantic associations to the forest, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, the economic bubbles and economies in crisis. The piece was performed in Müggelwald Berlin as a four-hour long performative walk through different notions of space.

“Stages of Crisis” was to be a stage version of the materials developed in the forest. The piece was to carry the converted fairy tales and the reminiscence of nature to another place: a supermarket where products present themselves as the further possible vortex to nature.

Today, as the crisis deepens economically and ecologically, as humanity moves forward in denial of the harmful effects of digitalisation in the environment and the place of the stage is largely in danger, the reality of theatre is put into a big question mark. “Stages of Crisis” transits between over consumption and the global initiatives and reactions born in the internet and fed by a fearful ‘horror vacui’ and cookbooks in lockdown. Individualism is in crisis, but does not orient itself towards nature in order to find forms of collectivism; a new path that fails because solidarity as such has not been established and predatory forms continue to prevail.

Concept, text and choreography: Constanza Macras
Dramaturgy: Carmen Mehnert

By and with: Candaş Bas, Alexandra Bódi, Emil Bordás, Chia-Ying Chiang, Rob Fordeyn, Yuya Fujinami, Asuka Riedl, Sonya Levin, Thulani Lord Mgidi, Miki Shoji

Live music by and with: Almut Lustig, Kristina Lösche-Löwensen

Stage: Nina Peller
Light Designer: Sergio de Carvalho Pessanha
Sound Designer: stephan Wöhrmann
Costume: Constanza Macras
Regie Assistant: Mica Heilmann
Production Manager: Jimenia Soria
Production Office: Léo Pflimlin
Production: Vicky Kouraraki
Intern: Clémence Pérochon
Costume Manager: Valeria Nessis

Distribution: Plan B – Creative Agency for Performing Arts

Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.