Description

Target Audience: for 5+ ages

Duration: 50 minutes

Object Theatre

Synopsis 

Early in the morning, huge garbage trucks rumble through the streets and swallow our waste. Elsewhere, they spit it out again. Elsewhere, completely different rules apply, different beings live, and different things happen. Elsewhere, cleaning sponges dance the tango, witches brew magical slime in garbage cans, and a mountain of plastic spins pirouettes. Elsewhere is magical and colorful, but also a bit dirty, smelly, and eerie. The stage comes to life with all kinds of small and large garbage creatures and a curious vacuum cleaner. This colorful object-theater tells of another exciting dimension – without words but with lots of music.

With ELSEWHERE, we inspire our audience with creativity, anarchy, and getting their hands dirty. We provide a small insight into the possibilities of DIY recycling. We offer space for fun and entertainment but also contemplation and concentration. Key players on stage include a self-driving vacuum cleaner, an electric toothbrush as a magic wand, a whimsical garbage can, an oversized dish sponge, a wayward garbage bag and a good dose of magical slime. This associative dream journey constantly questions unwritten rules and thus provides an occasion for subsequent discussions.

Production Credit 

• Artistic Direction: Nina Malotta, Samuel Hof
• Performance + Objects: Antje Töpfer, Nina Malotta
• Music: Christoph Mäcki Hamann
• Dramaturgy: Antonia Beermann
• Lighting + Technology: Samuel Hof
• Production managment: Lisa Ticar
• Graphic Design & Photograph: Markus Niessner
• Props and Technics Manager: Frederic Jean Pascal Ehlers
• Press/PR: Kathrin Stärk
• Video Documentation: Josef Mayerhofer
• Elsewhere is a production by O-Team in co-production with Fitz Stuttgart and HochX, Munich.

Supported by the state capital Stuttgart, the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and by the State Association of Independent Dance and Theater Creators Baden-Württemberg e.V. with funds from the Ministry for Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

Artist Profile

O-Team has been active since 2007 and has gradually developed into a professional performance and theater company. The core team consists of the artistic directors Nina Malotta and Samuel Hof. So far, over 30 projects have been created, which have also been presented at guest performances and festivals at home and abroad. O-Team often works with interdisciplinary casts in exuberant, pictorial formats that are both sensual and intellectual. The projects range between the areas of performance, figure and object theater, visual theater or immersive formats. Aesthetically, they are characterized by elaborately designed objects and/or stage spaces as well as clear conceptual settings. The independent theater group develops scenic states of emergency and theatrical rituals that challenge the audience. The form of the projects develops from the focus on content and in engagement with the chosen physical material. Sometimes science fiction sets meet Greek temples on stage, sometimes sex robots meet actors. Sometimes a car crashes into a toilet in a public space, sometimes there is a whole night of performances for sleeping people.

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