photo Luc Massin
April 23rd, 2010 – 10.00 a.m. The Pleciuga Puppet Theatre
Kate McIntosh, Brussels, Belgium
DARK MATTER
Most of my shows are about: How can I picture the world? Do I understand anything about it or not? In this show the questions are: How do we see the unimaginably big and the unimaginably small? How do we humans sort of position ourselves into that information?
It’s not a natural landscape that I’m exploring. It’s a landscape that only exists in our minds. It’s more a thinking exercise. The hardest thing was: How to talk about this on a stage? . . . For people who haven’t studied it and don’t know anything about it, you get a variety of responses, not all of them positive: they find the discussion irritating, or exciting, or overwhelming. Or they ask: What has it to do with my life? What does it mean for me to know about atoms?
Kate McIntosh
With the charm and glamour of a music hall star, Kate McIntosh leads through the program entitled „Dark Matter.“ She dances, she sings, she resists the trickery of the object, and she asks the big questions of life. The show, which Kate McIntosh calls a „full-on show-biz glam-cabaret style”… is entertainment at its best, and it is intelligent.
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project – Kate McIntosh
script – Kate McIntosh i Tim Etchells
dramaturgy – Pascale Petralia
light design – Minna Tiikkainen
sound design – Mikko Hynninen
costumes design – Sofie Durnez
light technician – Joëlle Reyns
performed by: Thomas Kasebacher, Kate McIntosh, Bruno Roubicek
production: Margarita Production for TOF vzw
coproducers: CONNECTIONS Network, Kaaitheater (B), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (F)
in partnership with: De Pianofabriek (B), STUK Kunstencentrum (B), WorkSpace Brussels (B), WP Zimmer (B), fabrik Potsdam in the frame of Tanzplan Potsdam: Artists-in-Residence (D), Sophiensaele (D)
with the support of de Vlaamse Overheid, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
CONNECTIONS is a mentorship and production initiative of the theatre festival SPIELART Munich in Cooperation with CAMPO – Gent, Republique – Copenhagen, Forum Freies Theater – Düsseldorf, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee – Zürich, Huis en Festival a/d Werf - Utrecht, Choreographisches Zentrum NRW/PACT Zollverein – Essen, Theater im Pumpenhaus – Münster, Kanuti Gildi SAAL – Tallinn, The Student Center – Zagreb, Koproduktionshaus brut – Vienna.
