Der Bau

In the organizer's words:

NOMINATED FOR THE COLOGNE THEATER PRIZE 2024

DER BAU - multimedia theater based on Franz Kafka

One woman. Her bubbles. KI. You. Interactive. Multimedia.

"I live in peace in the innermost part of my house and in the meantime the enemy is slowly
and quietly drilling his way towards me from somewhere." (Franz Kafka)

Do we have to defend ourselves? Our values? Freedom? Seal ourselves off? Control:?
A woman flees to her protective den. But is it really safe?

Explore with her your self-certainties and the harmony of social bubbles. Live.
Anonymously. With the smartphone. Ask yourself the question: Why does our need for
for security automatically leads to control - instead of trust and cooperation?
Experience a fusion of your thoughts, Kafka's text, acting, dance, AI and video.
A piece that makes your thoughts audible.

The story depicts the futile struggle to perfect a huge earthwork to protect against enemies. disdance project stages Kafka's fragment interactively and multimedia-based and takes audience participation to a new level. The text is dynamically created anew in each performance - with the help of AI-generated emotional voice models. Is that Kafka? Or my neighbor? Is this live or did algorithms predict it? Am I sure?

CAST:
Director/ Video/ Sound/ Programming: André Lehnert
Choreography/ dance/ acting/ narrator: Paula Scherf
Text composition/ set design: Paula Scherf & André Lehnert
Assistance/ stage construction/ lighting assistance: Emil Lehnert, Emma Wende
Production/ Organizer: disdance project gUG

Info:
0221 - 169 09 379 | disdanceproject.de/bau | info@disdanceproject.de

PRICES ACCORDING TO SELF-ASSESSMENT:
10 € (low-budget) | 15 € (semi) | 20 € (standard) | 20+ € (supporter)

disdance project has been realizing interdisciplinary projects in the fields of dance, theater and video art in Cologne since 2003. In 2024, the video installation NACHTS after Kafka was created with the use of artificial intelligence. The production STÖRFALL was awarded the Kölner Kunstsalon Theaterpreis 2022, the production BRENNEN was nominated for the Kölner Theaterpreis 2023, as was DER BAU in 2024 2024. Together with the former Cologne artistic director Hansgünther Heyme, the theatrical video installation HERAKLES was created in 2020/21.