Saturday, June 15, 19.00 / Daile Theatre Small stage

 Editta Braun Company (Austria)                          

Choreography, creation: Editta Braun & Juan Dante Murillo Bobadilla

Co-directing: Arturas Valudskis

Performed by Juan Dante Murillo Bobadilla

Composition: Terijs Zaboicefs / Thierry Zaboitzeff

Dramaturgy: Gerda Pošmane-Reihenava / Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau

Coaching dance: Tomašs Simatovi?s / Tomaz Simatovic

Light Design: Tomass Hinterbergers / Thomas Hinterberger

Paintings: Evel?na Brauna, Zigr?da Linhere / Evelyn Braun, Sigrid Linher

Directing, artistic direction: Edita Brauna / Editta Braun

Visuals: Edita Brauna / Editta Braun

Text: German in 30 days (Langenscheidt)

currently resident in… created in 2013 in Salzburg

Indian IT-specialists in Great Britain, the elderly care nurse from the Ukraine next door, African street cleaners in Paris or the doner kebab seller at the railway station: more and more people are leaving their country looking for fortune / luck, for new perspectives or simply for survival. Departure, arrival, a new life: the uprooting is a deep cut leaving marks. Big dreams are often followed by disenchantment, a laborious time begins and many a migrant loses himself.

At home moving like a fish in the water, now hesitating at every step he takes, exposed to constant surveillance, often suspicious, always under pressure to justify himself and trying not to offend, he loses all his spontaneity. And even if he has found a place to live: what about language, the “house of our being”?

In his solo, Juan Dante Murillo Bobadilla investigates the effects of global mobility upon the human being. With all his heart, from head to toe, with his body and his language, the native Columbian, who has been living and working in Europe since 2006, traces his own exemplary experiences. For 70 minutes, comedy and catastrophe stand close to each other, and even the delightful doesn’t miss out.

Editta Braun, born in Austria, received the academic degree from the University of Salzburg, studied dance and acting in New York, Paris and Greece, is currently 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 in 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 a balance between composition and choreography brings a creative breath of the dramaturgical, choreographic and dance process.

Photo: Editta Braun