A solo by Anne Rooschüz, developed within the framework of her master studies at the University of Hamburg.

Shown in Kampnagel, Hamburg, spring 2011.

- a research into the motions of celestial bodies and universal attraction.

What’s it like to exert the strongest gravitational pull in a system?

Or to watch celestial bodies fall into your orbit? Can we get closer to the solar system by following its movements?

Do the laws of attraction that govern in space, govern a theatre space as well?

Would the appearance of a white dwarf or a red giant change the gravitational pull within the space? And would they fit?

WHAT I NEED:

·      Space

·      Eight runners

·      A smoke machine

·      Some chairs

·      Reflex vests

·      A fan

 A dwarf?

·      Cardboard

A melodramatic sunset with a lamp and a piece of cardboard. 

A melodramatic science fiction performance

Weather is a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. Winter used to be the coldest season of the year, between autumn and spring. (Wikipedia 2029)

So Long Snow takes place in a future, where ice and snow no longer exist. This absence is palpable. The weather has lost its biting chill and no longer offers humanity its cold comfort. The splendor of a snow-white landscape that could soothe human sorrow, the ice singing beneath one’s gliding blades on a long skate trip, and the joy of children playing in the snow: all these live on in the memory of just a small group of people.These people cannot bring winter back, but they want to forget nothing. Can we prevent the our memories from melting away? How can we say goodbye?

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (from the movie Bladerunner)

In The Nature of Hunting a formal lecture meets the wild unpredictability of movements. The one hour long lecture performance on the border between dance, theatre and performance, will give the audience a different look upon the joy of hunting. With loose associations and the well-aimed movements of a hunter, the artists ask whether it is perhaps a human necessity to kill once a while. Are we wilder than we think? Or is human brutality only more visible in a civilized world?

Her voice sounds comforting through your headsets. Biologist Annie Zuiderwijk of the University of Amsterdam conducts you across the Noorderbegraafplaats. The guided tour starts off as a scientific excursion. Yet it slowly transforms into a romantic rendez-vous with the life of the graveyard: lush with greenery, melodic birds and bizarre insects. Quietly in the background, the gravediggers are ever present. But is their’s the only presence?

It's evening. It's dead quiet at the petrol station. Suddenly people approach, coming from all sides. Cars, car freaks and passers-by. Brutal carchoreografies tear through the silence. Images of people and cars appear on the wall of the petrol station. Of people with their cars. The open space fills with fragments of conversation.