MEDIATHEK

HOLDING HANDS,the performers appear as one organism with two different personalities. Bright neon light floods both stage and audience areas. Almost nothing seems to happen, but what happens is in great detail and absolute precision. In the performers’ faces, posture and breathing a melodrama takes place where all narrative elements have been sifted out. The experiment reads: can one bear such a lack of narrative? Can one bear reading emotions without cause and effect? The public is repeatedly questioning its expectations. In the lit audience, the faces of the viewers start reflecting the performers faces and the audience becomes a distorting mirror of the stage…

/ CREDITS /

A performance by: Antonia Baehr

With: William Wheeler and Antonia Baehr

Production: Wheeler/Baehr and Podewil Berlin

Premiere: 2001

WITHOUT YOU, I AM NOTHING

In Without you, I am Nothing, voice and speech, body and mind are uniquely tied together in the singing of the opera diva.

On the stage is a golden chair with a microphone on it, a small amplifier, a theremin, and black cables connecting all these things, creating a tight triangle. Antonia, the diva, enters in a lovely sparkly gown, sits down in the chair and delivers a hypnosis text based on a fantasy of being in love with and performing for a queen. She speaks a little sideways to an audience which will choose either to sink into her fantasies and suggestions or to detach themselves and listen, scrutenizing the text and the scenario. After she finishes her hypnosis, she lip-synchs to William playing Giuseppe Verdi’s “Tu che le vanità” on the theremin, making it sound like an operatic soprano voice. Seeing and hearing, disbelieve and wanting to believe are all combined. Musician/instrument, text/speech, audience/vision in general become blurred.

Logic dances in a field of flowers for a moment, and something like a trance is made possible.

/ CREDITS /

A performance by William Wheeler

With Antonia Baehr and William Wheeler

Production: Wheeler/Baehr and Podewil Berlin

GEORGIA ON MY MIND / COUNTRY BUBBLE / THE BEAUTIFUL WALZ

Subtle Country-Western Performance

with Bonnie Guitar (theremin), Werner Hirsch aka Agnes B. (mute mouth and dance show) and his Pony Lady

Werner Hirsch: „I am Prince Greenhorn. I am a cowprince and I ♥ mares.“

Bonnie Guitar: „I am a musician. I like to watch and then play.“

/ CREDITS /

By and with William Wheeler and Antonia Baehr

Stage-design “Country Bubble“: Stefan Pente

Premiere: KuLe, Berlin,

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