All Together Now - Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods & steirischer herbst

"The crowd was large enough to make any part of it seem the middle. What she began to feel, aside from helplessness, was a heightened sense of who she was in relation to the others, thousands of them, orderly but all enclosing, and she was forced to see herself in the reflecting surface of the crowd. She became whatever they sent back to her. She became her face and features, her skin colour, a white person, white in her fundamental meaning, her state of being. She felt all the bitter truth that stereotypes contain. The crowd was gifted at being a crowd. This was their truth. They were at home, she thought, in the wave of bodies, the compressed mass. Being a crowd was a religion in itself, apart from the occasion they were there to celebrate. She thought of crowds in panic, surging over riverbanks. These were a white persons thoughts, the processing of white panic data. The others did not have these thoughts. People talked to her. An old man offered her sweets and told her the name of the festival." Don Delillo. Falling Man.

In the mythological age everything was sacred. A god was hidden in every object or left it as a trace of his presence. Through rituals man celebrated his harmony with the universe. Twenty-first century western man lost his mythological soul: he is alone. So he is always looking for consolation, be it in virtual reality bonding, group therapy sessions or observing the latest fashion.
In All Together Now an assembly tries to connect through old and new rituals, lives through crises and celebrations and hopes for some unrequested gifts and little miracles.

This trailer has been filmed and edited by Gerald Koll.

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[MalakABboy]

@silviatengner OH SHIT

[Nibbler800]

why is there no clear explanation of what this vid is all about?

[silviatengner]

I'm very curious!

Living Theatre type of piece? :)