Ensemble uBu - Mutants in Music: III. Dreamteam

In the organizer's words:

Team (u)Building Dreams

When we can no longer find words for a positive common future - because opinion fronts have hardened, because individual experience is no longer reflected in general ideals and categories, because bad news has left us speechless - perhaps we need to change the medium in which we negotiate our dreams? With the production "Dreamteam", the Cologne-based ensemble uBu explores ways to bring dreams together in music and dance, searching for a shared utopia in the virtuosity of the collective.

Collective Playlist

uBu is looking for music that is linked to dreams and is calling for a public playlist to be filled with corresponding tracks by May 23rd:https://ensembleubu.com/projekte/traeume-mit-uns

Based on these very personally selected pieces of music, uBu then develops musical and dance strategies to deal with the diversity and contradictions of the musically represented dreams, visions, ideals and utopias and processes them into the concert performance "Mutants in Music: Dreamteam". The ensemble is less concerned with filtering out the "common denominator" from the diversity of the playlist contributions. Rather, uBu is inspired by the pluralistic practice of the Cologne composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, who virtuously interwove genres, styles, genres, epochs and artistic genres in his works, creating visionary and shockingly contemporary music as early as the 1960s.

Since its foundation in 2016, uBu has intensively studied Zimmermann's works and working methods, developing a collective interdisciplinary compositional practice that incorporates the richness and diversity of contemporary musical realities.

Can brilliance in dealing with pluralism be achieved together in this way? Can the dream team achieve mastery in collective dreaming?

Participants

Ensemble uBu Anna Neubert (violin) | Magdalena Öttl (dance) | Esther Saladin (violoncello) | Sophia Spies (stage+costume) | Antonia Stäcker (dance) | Christoph Stöber (piano) | Yves Ytier (dance) | Emi Noda (production assistant)
Dramaturgy Valerie Wehrens
Outside Ear Diego Ramos Rodriguez
Lighting Studio abs.Time
Production management Katja Kruglikova

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sciences of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, InSzene program of Podium Gegenwart/German Music Council, Rheinenergie Stiftung Kultur, GVL-Stiftung, Claussen-Simon Stiftung, Quartier am Hafen Köln/Tanzresidenz

Photocredits: NICLAS WEBER