This evening-long and diverse performance tests the limits of load-bearing – of the individual, our society, our living spaces. How much can we endure? How much can, should, or may we impose on ourselves and others? Following the fruitful collaboration of the Societaetstheater with the artist duo Peschken/Pisarsky in the projects WANDERBOJE (2021) and GLOBALPIX (2023), we now take another project of the versatile artist couple as an occasion to create a spectacle involving companies and artists from various art genres and guests from sports and science, which will take place throughout the entire theater house.
This special theater evening combines New Circus, dance, acting, sports, film, visual arts, and science. At the center of the evening are the load-bearing figures created by Anne Peschken and Marek Pisarsky, which evolve anew during the performances.
The circus company led by Emma Laule opens the evening in the theater hall with their show Permeable Bodies, in which granite stones interact with people and gravity meets weightlessness. There, the circus company KLUB GIRKO concludes the three-and-a-half-hour spectacle in a finale featuring countless bamboo poles.
Within this framework, the theater evening guides the audience through all the rooms of the Societaetstheater:
The weightlifting section of the sports club DSC 1898 invites you to training and competition in the sports studio.
Actor Thomas Stecher reads Ingo Schulze's text about the heavy load-bearing body in Berlin, this concrete monster that is the only existing relic from Hitler/Speer's architectural project for the world capital Germania.
Dr. Julia Schönborn from the World Ethos Institute Tübingen speaks very personally about the limits of load-bearing.
Art historian Marta Smolińska invites a discourse on atlases, caryatids, and load-bearing figures.
Biologist and lawyer Charlotte Streck is a co-founder and president of the climate consulting firm, the think tank Climate Focus, and teaches aspects of climate policy at the University of Potsdam – in a lively lecture she illustrates what happens when we reach and exceed tipping points in ecological systems, both regionally and globally.
There are speed datings, entertaining elevator rides, a Messi hell, conversations at the bar, exhibitions, dance performances, and a library of records …
Artistic direction: Anne Peschken, Marek Pisarsky, Kathleen Gaube, Heiki Ikkola | Circus performers: Alba De Miguel, Emma Laule, Josef Stiller, Moritz Grenz | Dance performers: Chiara Detscher, Jule Rottluff, Katja Erfurth, Seraphine Detscher | Acting/Performance: Hanno Wuckasch, Heiki Ikkola, Iris Pickhard, Kathleen Gaube, Thomas Stecher | Special guests: Charlotte Streck, Dr. Julia Schönborn, weightlifting section of DSC 1898, Marta Smolińska | Equipment collaboration: Wiete Sommer | Music: Benjamin Rottluff | Texts: Franziska Fuhlrott, Ingo Schulze, Jule Hanka, among others | Live camera: Eckart Reichl | Projections: Beate Oxenfart | Technology: Anton Ihlenfeldt, Bernd Krakowsky, Ole Büttner, Robby Hirche
Duration: approx. 210 minutes
On the evening of the performance, various individual formats, such as individual discussions with specialists and training with the weightlifters, can be booked at the entrance terminal. A common start is desirable, as the evening follows a larger dramaturgy; the latest entry is possible until 9:30 PM.