Make-up for the drowned corpse – Muricas News

No query: Ophelia has a status to uphold. And a foul one at that. As a tame sufferer who first loses her thoughts at her lover Hamlet after which finally ends up useless within the water, she ranks no less than within the prime 5 of probably the most disliked feminine stage characters. And it's at present booming, when in lots of locations it's about deconstructing the canon of drama in a feminist means.

The truth that initially of the season within the Berlin Volksbühne it's Florentina Holzinger, who has been labeled an “excessive performer”, who takes on this Shakespearean anti-heroine, offers rise to well-founded anticipation. Who else could possibly be trusted to actually free the anemic sufferer cliché from its rigor mortis than the 36-year-old choreographer together with her very personal theatrical language of excessive tradition occasion, occasion and stunt present – educated on just about every thing that occurred between Hermann Nitsch, Quentin Tarantino and Marina Abramović makes you assume?

Rescue of Shakespeare’s anti-heroine

From Holzinger’s manufacturing “Tanz”, which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2020, a broader theatrical public is aware of the way it can truly work, to really undermine worn-out stereotypes as an alternative of – as has sadly been seen far more usually these days – verbosely berating them and by accident cementing them was: a present with – a Holzinger trademark – bare physique suspension artists who, connected to metallic hooks pierced by way of the flesh of the again, floated very self-determinedly by way of the air.

In truth, “Ophelia’s Bought Expertise”, as the present night is named, follows an identical dramaturgy. Whereas the framework there was a ballet lesson that went off the rails within the route of a splatter orgy, it's now a crooked TV expertise present that's getting out of hand brilliantly. And actually. As a result of in “Ophelia’s Bought Expertise” every thing revolves round water: as a pleasantly ambivalent, fluid, versatile and increasing factor; as an emblem of the origin in addition to of the – key phrase floating corpse – finish and naturally as a reference medium for all of the supposedly closely erotic sirens, undines and different water creatures that hang-out cultural historical past.

Nikola Knežević constructed an enormous water basin on the stage, flanked by larger-than-life aquariums. Every little thing is transmitted to massive screens through a dwell digicam – from bizarre underwater choreographies to a close-up of a dwell piercing to the within of a performer who first swallows swords after which a digicam.

On the one hand, the actors of the fantasy of the beguiling, however themselves surprisingly passive water beings oppose their extraordinarily actual bodily power and artwork, which repeatedly takes on gravity. And however, they casually misappropriate all conceivable stereotypes, together with male stereotypes, across the massive metaphor of water. For instance in “Sailor’s Dance”, a big ensemble step quantity that will increase to Schuhplattler and much past: danced by girls who, of their nudity, en passant, just by their presence, the class “physique norm” – together with Age, potential or physique mass index – merely overturn it.

(Subsequent performances from September seventeenth to nineteenth and on September twenty fifth and twenty sixth)

What's going down right here just isn't merely the much-vaunted deconstruction. It’s not in regards to the ancestral, dusty elements (at greatest) mendacity on the stage flooring of their particular person elements. Relatively, Holzinger counterposes this along with his personal pictures in probably the most unmissionary matter-of-fact means. Essentially the most entertaining is actually the grandiose helicopter quantity, by which the ladies twirl round an airplane hanging from the rigging flooring, to collective copulation and a last orgasm.

Florentina Holzinger offers the Volksbühne a huge occasion initially of the season. And one that's fully with itself in the most effective sense of the phrase and is due to this fact extraordinarily infectious. On the finish, all the auditorium stands and celebrates: After the Pollesch-Hinrichs night “Are you okay?” “Ophelia’s Bought Expertise” is the second actual hit since Pollesch began as director on the Volksbühne. She will use it.