Second part of the Trilogy of Spectatorship - Encounter Through the Fourth Wall

Performing arts have liberated spectators of their passive role in the unlit part of the theatre and offered them a new position. Since the beginning of her trilogy, Jenny Beyer has been inviting her audiences to rehearsals and performances in order to explore, and possibly to change, the relationship between viewer and dance. While "Liebe", the first part of the trilogy, established a physical closeness to this theme, in Glas, the audience sits far away from the stage. How can the viewers still be involved in what is happening on stage? And how can this distance stir and touch them? Jenny Beyer makes the fourth wall porous in her new performance piece, turning the theatrical zero line into a requirement for new experiences.

PREMIERE

February 2, 2016, 8 pm at Kampnagel Hamburg, Kampnagel Hamburg

Further Performances: February 5 – 7, 2016, 8 pm at Kampnagel Hamburg and November 17 and 18, 2016 at Theater Freiburg

Glas is a production by Jenny Beyer, co-produced by Kampnagel Hamburg and Theater Freiburg, in cooperation with K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, funded by the conceptual support of the Hamburg Department of Culture and the Nationale Performance Netz (NPN); coproduction support for dance carried out with funds by the German government’s Commission for Culture and Media based on a decision by the German Bundestag; additional funding provided by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation.

Fotos: Thies Rätzke