Being Odysseus

Performed at the opening of the GEF project in Dresden, July 2004 and at the Cynetfestival 2003. The plot's hero is one of the oldest protagonists in occidental tales and myths: Odysseus. We compiled a scenario inspired by the classic epic of Homer as well as by a part of Dante's "Divina Commedia" in which Dante meets Odysseus' soul in hell. The moment of his death is the story's focus. Odysseus lies dying on the cliffs, his spirit wanders a last time through his memories and moments of his life. For Odysseus -- and his actors/performers -- the stage becomes a mental space, a carrier of memories; it is the access to the interface between the man and the memories through which he wanders in this eternal moment, facing the end of his worldly existence. Real-time-generated and -altered video fragments are, next to sounds, the carriers of the memories. The body and its dramatic potential, its movements, its theatrical projections are extended by its linkage with medial content such as video or sound synthesis. This linkage of the real and physical world with the artificial and spiritual world is designed to disclose the audience a new layer of perception.

performance: Georg Hobmeier
video : Leonhard Lass (Margarita Stavraki for the GEF version)
audio: Gregor Ladenhauf
production: Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• interactive
• theatre
• dance
• performance
• senselabor