The Kreuzkirche is transformed into an echo space where the audience moves through a surreal stage set. A collage of Ovid, Pink Floyd, and sign language choir performance.
Sun. 7.9.
20:30, Kreuzkirche
Hannah Baumann: Echoes
- Dance, Performance & Music Theatre, Chamber Music
- € 20
Hannah Baumann © Patrick Essex 
Söntke Campen © Dariusz Lencewicz 
Wooden Elephant © Anneveldt Multimedia
Contributors
- Wooden Elephant
- Aoife Ní Bhriain violin
- Hulda Jónsdóttir violin
- Ian Anderson viola
- Stefan Hadjiev cello
- Nikolai Matthews double bass
- Signing choir Klingende Hände
- Hannah Baumann artistic director, dramaturgy & text
- Elīna Viļuma-Helling vocals
- Peyee Chen vocals
- Helēna Sorokina vocals
- Söntke Campen scenography & painting
- Vanessa Rust costumes
- Jan Sell Deaf performance
- Susanne Tod dramaturgy for German Sign Language (DGS) and Sign Language Choir
Programme
»Echoes in Limbo«
Walk-around music theatre
German Sign Language is used in the performance.
The concert at a glance
Description
Strangers passing in the street
By chance, two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?
(Pink Floyd: »Echoes«, 1972)
Dramaturge and Beethovenfest Fellow Hannah Baumann presents the Kreuzkirche as a stage landscape where we encounter ourselves and our echoes. Wooden Elephant’s instrumental-vocal recompositions of Pink Floyd and Radiohead combine with text fragments and Ovid’s story of the nymph Echo to create mystical music theatre. The Sign Language Choir Klingende Hände comments on the action in the manner of a Greek tragedy choir.
German sign language will be used in the performance. The event is without seating.
A production of Beethovenfest Bonn
The Fellowship Programme is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Bonn
An event as part of the Summer of Change Cultural Festival, an initiative of the Federal City of Bonn in cooperation with Bundeskunsthalle and about 30 other cultural partners. More information on bonn.de/summer-of-change
