Dance and puppet show: touching memory of forgotten life paths

Dance and puppet show: touching memory of forgotten life paths

Nestroyplatz 1, 1020 Wien, Österreich - On January 11, 2025, the "Fragments Out of Time" performance, which is excited in excitement, will celebrate its premiere at the Nestroyhof Hamakom Theater in Vienna. This haunting dance and puppet show, which was launched by Rose Breuss and Christoph Bochdansky, is reminiscent of dancers whose dreams and hopes were smashed, often by exile and displacement, as was the case with outstanding personalities such as Grete Wiesenthal and Gertrud Bodenwieser. According to the announcement, the staging such as delusion, loneliness and anger will represent with the help of dolls that comment on the action and thus underline the emotional content of the performance. These dolls almost act as allegories that are in the tradition of the baroque theater and offer the viewer a deeper reflection on human feelings. These fragments are also an expression of a varying dance culture that reflects an important part of Austrian history, especially the Jewish and exile dancers.

a game with a past and present

The staging is more than just a nostalgic performance - it is aimed at the present. Five dancers bring their biographies and dance fragments together from different epochs and thus reflect the game with memories. As in the description of Volume , the dancers play with the image of soap bubbles that not only stand for bursting dreams, but also for ideas and thoughts Increase the indefinite past to the surface. These metaphors illustrate the diverse emotional conditions in which people can find themselves. Appropriately, the great music of Matthew Shlomowitz under the musical direction of Hanne Pilgrim plays a central role in the presentation of this contemporary art performance.

With further performances on January 12th and on February 24th and 25th, the production offers a forum for refreshing and re-evaluating an inter-exhibition, largely Jewish dance repertoire. "Fragments Out of Time" asks the audience to deal with the complexity of human experiences and to explore the fragility and strength of memory and hope, as is already the case in the detailed description of Kleine Zeitung . This captivating event is a must for everyone who is enthusiastic about the connection of dance, theater and history.