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HUM-AN Orchestra
Supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds
Mauricio Kagel’s "Zwei Mann Orchestra" visualises the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, which has left us in a world designed by and for the white male. The complex process of machines is externalised into a giant multi-layered sculpture made of ropes, wires and pulleys. Opera Lab Berlin brings this piece into the 21st century and beyond, to a future where the Digital Revolution is completed, and humanity has to seek to overcome bias and prejudices that echo from the past.
Wires become wireless connections, ropes become digital networks, the transfer of energy becomes transfer of information and - and this is truly revolutionary - humans are no longer in a mere external controlling function, but integrated seamlessly into the digital machine. The processes are internalised. Human interactions become data transfer. Bodies are extended into the digital. Clouds of soot become an omnipotent digital cloud. Join us on our journey up and beyond, into the uncertain.
Compostition: Mauricio Kagel
Staging: Gina May Walter
Musical director/version: Francesca Verga
Choreography: Ruben Nsue
Stage design: Isabelle Kaiser
Costume design: Cristina Lelli
Video: Samuel Chalela Puccini
Lightdesign & Technical director: Max Rux
Live electronic pictures: Simon Walker
Sound design: tadklimp
Instrument design: Stefan Roszak
Make-up: Martin Rink
Make-up (video): Oliver Kunde
Communications design: Sophie Pischel
Production management: Julie Kurzke
Production assistant: Tine Elbel
Artistic director: Evan Gardner
Photographer: Sophie Pischell
Voice: Nina Guo
Viola: Amanda Bailey
Violin: Davis West
Cello: Guilherme Rodrigues
Akkordeon: Franka Herwig
Piano: Alba Gentili-Tedeschi
Synthesizer: Francesca Verga
Dance: Ruben Nsue
World premiere on February 24th 2020 at Berlin Delphi Theatre (further Performances: 25.-27. February 2022
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