Choreography, directing: Editta Braun

Co-directing: Arturas Valudskis

Co-choreography: Juan Dante Murillo Bobadilla

Performers: Tomaz Simatovic, Spela Vodeb, Manel Salas Palau Dramatur?ija /Dramaturgy: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau

Texts: Kurt Palm, Bernhard Jenny, Christian Felber

Composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff
 Light Design: Thomas Hinterberger
 Visuals: explosive egg, Editta Braun

Enough of arts!? From storm and stress to agitprop and revolutionary art: for hundreds of years artists have wanted to enlighten, awaken, preach… but can the arts really play a part in changing the world? It needs to be changed, today more than ever.

Currently, various global crises superimpose each other, making each other worse. Climate change, financial crisis, litter pollution, extinction, starvation here and excess there – catchwords that everybody knows, words that overwhelm us. Reality overwhelms us. Everybody’s in the know, but what should be done? What can we do?

The alternatives are resignation or insurrection. Closing our ears or standing up. Now,  immediately. We no longer have time for indirect messages. The party is over.

And where is there still room for arts?

Time is running out. We can no longer send artistically cryptic, prettied-up or outlandish messages which will tire out the audience puzzling over them. Maybe art is unnecessary ballast in the resistance against inevitable doom. A detour which we cannot afford anymore, irresponsible distraction from our own superfluous luxury, fatal concealment of what’s essential, opium for the people. A detour which in truth stabilizes the very system it tries to criticize?

Will ‘enough of arts! – stop beating around the bush’ be our battle cry?

Or can we use art as a way to empower, to gain a new outlook, experience the unthinkable and, through surprises, unexpected twists and approaches train our brains to think and feel differently and so maybe (maybe!) develop the creative abilities we need to make survival possible?

The performers start with the resistance against their creative efforts that they experience daily. They clear the stage and make room for plaintext from the internet, for political analysis and rousing speeches. They feel with body, heart and soul the narratives, arguments and demands, let themselves fall into the paradox of making art in view of global catastrophe and plumb with desperate lust the deepest corner of political art in it’s broadest sense.

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Editta Braun (Austria)

Born in Austria, academic degree at the University of Salzburg, studies in dance and acting in New York, Paris and Greece. Teaching at University of Salzburg, Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität. More than ever, after 15 years on stage, Editta Braun is walking her own particular line. With a good dose of sympathetic stubbornness and serenely unconcerned with actual fads and trendy hypes, the poetic substance of her work is quite a plausible argument against the meanwhile obviously commonly accepted disenchantment of the world.

Editta Braun’s pieces are characterized by an expressive style, strongly influenced by theatre and performance, with humor and pathos often walking side by side, and are interwoven with elements showing a commitment to social criticism. Serious craftsmanship, intelligent precision and an osmotic exchange between composition and choreography are the creative breath of the dramaturgical, choreographic and dance process.

http://www.editta-braun.com/edittabrauncompany_e/schluss_e.html

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