Simon Mayer: Oh Magic

Simon Mayer’s new play Oh Magic is a live concert by robots and performers, a journey into a world of theatrical and technical magic and a search for the symphonic consonance of performance, dance, music, sound, robotics, light and visual art beyond all genre. Oh Magic understands itself as a ritual to celebrate vital energy, returning to the ritual origins of free bodily expression by quite simply and unacademically making music.
As piano music, synthesisers and live electronics, drums, songs and dance create a rich sound and performance landscape on stage, Oh Magic interlocks the futurist fantasies of modern technologies with the magic of the theatrical, thus addressing our ambivalent relationship with robotics and technology.

The performer, dancer, choreographer and musician Simon Mayer studied at the Vienna State Opera’s ballet school and the Performing Arts, Research and Training Studios (PARTS) in Brussels. He was a member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet. He has appeared as a dancer, among others, in the productions of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/ROSAS, Wim Vandekeybus and Zita Swoon. He has been touring very successfully, showing his own pieces SunBengSitting and Sons of Sissy all around the world. Also, he teaches at numerous festivals and as a guest lecturer at the Vienna Conservatory.

There will be a Q&A with the artists after the show on Tuesday, 24 October.

This performance takes place at Museumsquartier, Halle G.