QATSI RELOADED

A young dance, theater, music, performance and cinema show by theaterSchlachthof, in cooperation with Tanz im Lichthaus and the secondary school on Schaumburgerstrasse.

Premiere: 08/16/2019 | Further performances on August 17/18/19, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. | Location: Energy control center Bremen, BLG Forum | At Speicher XI, Bremen

Thirteen young people from Bremen are researching the film ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ from 1981. The director Godfrey Reggio shows what happens to a world in which machines and technology take over and we humans are only part of an out-of-control organism. Without words, accompanied by the music of Philipp Glas, a work was created between dystopia, destruction and infinite beauty. What happens when young people between the ages of 13 and 18 expose themselves to this work? How has the world changed since the images in the film were created? Where do we find orientations in a world that is out of control? KOYAANISQATSI in the language of the Hopi Indians means crazy life, or life out of balance. The film thus describes a current feeling in our society. The dancer and choreographer Hakan Sonakalan and the theater and dance pedagogue Valerie Usov, together with young people and the musician Riccardo Castagnola, find approaches to contemporary issues and translate them into a monumental visual language.

“You walk through a large room. It is wide and calm. The room fills itself with lights: A breath of wind brushes your ear. Growth and death are mutually dependent in a constant equilibrium. Everything smells, tastes, swirls, flows and sounds. A whole that is constantly in flux.

Suddenly an idea: A new room has to be built into the room! It’s tight and yet you have to hurry to get ahead in it. You look for something and find it in rituals of destruction. Everything has a purpose. Puff, drink, scuffle, run, buy. It is very neat because everything has a regular rhythm. 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2. 90°. 22 °C. 180 cm. 24 hours. ABC. On. Off. Everything has a name. How reassuring. Something is crashing into itself next to you, but if you close your eyes, it doesn’t happen. Now you are in charge! Close your eyes and prevent the destruction! A furry feeling on the tongue. Hurry up now! You are already too late! Smash, mangle, roll up. Get in line in a hurry and stand in silence: Now, hurry up.