Details

This performance forms part of BE FESTIVAL: a fortnight-long feast of European culture. Our Thursday quadruple bill includes an interval like no other, where you can enjoy a drink in our backstage lounge and sit down to dinner in a pop-up dining room on the theatre's main stage! (Click here to pre-book your meal.) That's It - A spectre claws her way across the stage, back and forth between nightmarish dreamscapes to become one creature after another, lurking in the darkest recesses of the mind. For the audience, each transformation, each lurch of time and space, is a terrifying, untethering slip away from what is known and what is real. That's It is the first solo from Sandman company, founded in October 2012 by Artistic Director, Sabine Molenaar. Winner of ACT festival, Bilbao and award for Strongest Female Talent at Theater Aan Zee Festival, Oostende. Loops & Breaks - Julia invites you, the audience, to make the action by responding to a series of shifting instructions prepared especially for the BE FESTIVAL crowd. The stage expands to become a blur of watching and performing, interpretation, cooperation and play, where everyone can join the game of finding common ground together, and where every contribution is precious. Since studying at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and Roehampton University, London, Julia has worked with choreographers including Sasha Waltz, Rosalind Crisp, Ted Stoffer and Mia Lawrence. She is a member of tanz_house, a Salzburg based platform for choreography. Ilsa's Garden - Ilsa was the protagonist of an eponymous 1974 Nazi exploitation film. An unscrupulous officer and concentration camp doctor, this ?She-Wolf of the SS' is an unsettling creation, inhabited here by the artist to interrogate the appeal of German Fascism. The lyrics of Friedrich Hollaender's revue songs are the only words disturbing an intense procession of images in a dark, otherwise silent cabaret. Since graduating from her studies in Applied Theatre Science in Gie?en, Germany, Anna has created work at the meeting point of visual and scenic art, often responding to the architecture and history of specific spaces. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers - The infamous black and white quest of an unfeeling alien race to eliminate individualism on Earth is explored in the glorious three dimensions and technicolor of a live show. Fragments of '50s scripts and sequels work in conversation with video projection to present an unsettling B-Movie mash-up of our notions of identity and collectivism. La Casa en el Arbol is led by Vicente Colomar, an artist, producer and academic. Vicente develops international and interdisciplinary research projects; spaces that explore the performing arts and their role in society.

Cast/Performers

Julia Schwarzbach (Austria - Loops & Breaks)

Creatives/Company

Company(s): Sandman (Belgium / The Netherlands - That's It), Le Casa en el Arbol (Spain - The Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
Author: Anna Peschke (Germany - Ilsa's Garden)