Constanza Macras: Bach to the Present (new version)

In the organizer's words:

Memory is fragile, garbage lasts forever.

In 2003, Constanza Macras and her company DorkyPark created the legendary piece Back to the Present, which premiered in the abandoned Jandorf department store in Mitte and then toured the world. Now, after more than 20 years, Back to the Present is back!

Jill Emerson, the iconic performer from DorkyPark's earlier works, is back in the show, surrounded by all-new cast members. All the characters find themselves in a casting for a reality show after falling out of love. They try to portray themselves as absolute originals, while at the same time becoming archetypes for a mass audience. Fetishized objects from past relationships pile up like rubble under a mountain of debris. But how do you inhabit former ruins? How do you recycle the things that don't decay? Declarations of love, memorabilia, old ideas? What memories do they trigger? And can memory - with all its failures and inaccuracies - be used to make present moments more fulfilling rather than more pathetic?

Jill moved on, but somehow she decided to return to where she thought it all began: Back to the Present.

On March 27 + 28, 7:30 p.m.

by and with: Alexandra Bódi, Emil Bordás, Campbell Caspary, Jill Emerson, WooSang Jeon, Moritz Lucht, Thulani Lord Mgidi, Miki Shoji, Shiori Sumikawa, Steph Quinci

Guests: Antonia Aurin, Carolina Gonzalez, Lujain Mustafa, Špela Remec, Julián Rodriguez, Yeva Trepilets, Paloma Velez Da Porta

Concept, direction & choreography: Constanza Macras

Dramaturgy: Carmen Mehnert

Artistic & technical collaboration: Simon Lesemann

Sound design: Stephan Wöhrmann

Costume collaboration: Marcus Barros Cardoso

Assistant director: Jonas Pfeifer

Original stage: Patrice Wisniewski

Original costumes: Gilvan Coêlho de Oliveira

Original visual concept & video: Constanza Macras, Kevin Slavin

Company Management Dorky Park: Jimena Soria

Production Management Dorky Park: Alisa Aleshchenko, Vicky Kouvaraki, Volha Vishniova

Technical direction Dorky Park: Miloš Vujković

Assistant director:

Arya Sezer

A production by Constanza Macras / DORKY PARK, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin