LAURENT CHÉTOUANE - KHAOS

Austrian Premiere / TQW co-production

Chaos causes anxiety. And today it no longer seems like a temporary state of emergency but an equally threatening as well as inevitable model for the future.

In ancient Greece, on the other hand, Khaos is an ambivalent figure. As a formless form and striving in the direction of a different one from what it already is, it also evokes the dimension of emergence, of the possible, of renewal.

In KHAOS, Laurent Chétouane brings together four dancers and three musicians to explore Khaos. On stage the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Rihm and John Cage plays, which displays an affinity to uncontrollability. The turbulence zones in and between the pieces of music are the starting point for the emergence of unstable, threatening, destructive spaces, which both the performers and spectators are exposed to. In the process bodies emerge that have to discover new relationships to the space, to the others and to themselves in order not to completely fall victim to the blind and disparate forces of openness. In KHAOS the danger of the dissolution of the order of a world through chaos is explored as the chance to create multiple worlds – the attempt at a utopian present.

#TubulenceZones #concert #ReArrangementOfTheWorld

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CHOREOGRAPHY: Laurent Chétouane with the dancers
PERFORMANCE: Kotomi Nishiwaki, Bilal Elhad, Tilman O’Donnell, Mikael Marklund
MUSIC: Mathias Halvorsen (piano), Tilman Kanitz (cello), Artiom Shishkov (violin)
MUSICAL CONCEPT: Laurent Chétouane with the musicians and Johann Günther
LIGHTING: Jan Maertens
COSTUMES: Lydia Sonderegger
SOUND: Johann Günther
DRAMATURGY: Marten Weise
CHOREOGRAPHY ASSISTANT: Sarah Blumenfeld
COSTUME ASSISTANT: Anna Philippa Müller
PRODUCTION: Christine Kammer, Hendrik Unger

THANKS TO: Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-François Peyret for the dramaturgical support and advice.

A production by KHAOS GbR in co-production with the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kaaitheater Brussels and Kampnagel Hamburg
Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Federal Government and the Basic Funding/Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs.
With the kind support of Dock11/Eden*****Berlin.

Laurent Chétouane, director and choreographer was born in 1973 in Soyaux, France. After an engineering degree he completed a degree in theatre studies at the Sorbonne and a degree in theatre direction at the University of Music and Performing Art in Frankfurt am Main. Since 2000 he has realised numerous stagings on the big stage, among others in Hamburg, Munich, Weimar, Cologne, Athens, Oslo and Zürich, and since 2006 also dance projects with international guest performances in France, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Norway, Switzerland, Italy and Russia. In addition, he has been a visiting lecturer and visiting professor at art colleges and universities, among others in Berlin, Bochum, Frankfurt, Gießen, Hamburg, Leipzig and Oslo. In 2010 Chétouane received the Wild Card of Ruhr 2010 and in 2008 the North Rhine-Westphalia support prize for outstanding young artists.