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This is how you will disappear

The production This is how you will disappear by Gisèle Vienne (France) unifies opposing ideas about aesthetic beauty in a stage design consisting of an artificial forest gradually covered by fog.

In This is how you will disappear three persons seek each other. They are archetypes from the beauty ideals of popular culture: A trainer represents authority and order. An athlete represents ambition and perfection. A rock musician represents chaos and self-destruction á la Werther (Goethe) and (Kurt) Cobain.

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(Objekt ID 11122)
Object type Production
Premiere July 8, 2010
Produced by Gisèle Vienne
Coproducers BIT Teatergarasjen, , Festival/Tokyo, Steep Slope Studio-Yokohama, Steirischer Herbst, La Comédie de Caen, Centre Dramatique National Orléans/Loiret/Centre, KYOTO EXPERIMENT, Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Kampnagel International Summer Festival, The National Theatre, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort, Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble, The Avignon Festival
Audience Adults
Language English
Keywords Theatre, Installation, Performance, Post-dramatic theatre, Multidisciplinary, Dance
Running period July 8, 2010  
Website Gisèle Vienne

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In This is how you will disappear Gisèle Vienne has attempted to unify the seemingly opposite ideas via examining the Apollonian and the Dionysian as found in Nietzsche’s philosophy about the way they cancel each other out in tragedy.

Dionysus' divine destiny unifies the creative intoxication and the fundamental suffering making life a tragedy. Only the Apollonian seductive, but cool betrayal (clarity) can maintain a balance against the abyss of perdition.

The landscape of This is how you will disappear by Gisèle Vienne consists of fog sculptures by the 78 year old master Fujiko Nakaya, and video works by Shiro Takatani from the Japanese performance movement Dumb Type. In fusion with Dennis Cooper’s disturbing text, the expanding metal-referencing sound image of Stephen O´Malley and Peter Rehberg plus the puppets and the actors, This is how you will disappear stands as a total art work ending in a hold of terror, a nightmare-like feeling of lust, and death. In this contemporary myth about the battle between strong forces, the amorality of nature wins.

Gisèle Vienne has her background from philosophy and École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières. She has produced a series of dystopian and solid production over a decade. Jonathan Capdevielle and Dennis Cooper are her regular collaboration partners.

Source:

BIT Teatergarasjen, spring program 2011. 22.02.2011: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/379

Performance dates
February 25, 2011Hovedscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre visiting performance
February 24, 2011Hovedscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre visiting performance
February 19, 2011 19:00 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche Show
February 18, 2011 19:00 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche National premiere, Norway
July 8, 2010 19:00 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche Worldwide premiere
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