AQUA@CYCLES - Eine intermediale Performance über Wasser und Kreisläufe in unserem Leben

With AQUA@CYCLES, A.TONAL.THEATER and Theater an der Ruhr examine the element of water for its analogies to our lives: In addition to 10 citizens, the musicians Igor Kirillov (piano, harpsichord & electronics) and Peter Eisold (percussion & electronics), the singer & performer Sabina Krauze, the actor Mohammad Saado Kharouf and the actress Maria Neumann, a long-standing ensemble member of the Theater an der Ruhr and the current winner of the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science, will be involved.

When we think of WATER, the associations are far-reaching - from the most personal of all experiences with amniotic fluid as an embryo in the womb to the sea as a place of longing and the scene of serious accidents or the experience of overflowing rivers as a threat to life to political issues of climate change, water shortages and the resulting waves of migration. The topic of water is closely linked to "cycles": older people in particular are aware of (interrupted) cycles in their lives and their bodies and have come into contact with the element of water in many different ways - during births, vacations or threatening situations. However, in times of climate change and multinational corporations, water - the giver of life - is also becoming an acute threat, the cause of migration and an expensive consumer good.

Performers: Bruno Kirchhof, Claudia Burghardt, Daniela Godde, Frieder Kornfeld, Friedhelm Friebe, Horst Sommerfeld, Karin Oeser, Ingrid Henkes, Maria Neumann, Martin Gerhards, Mohammad Saado Kharouf, Sabina Krauze /// Live music & composition: Igor Kirillov (piana & effects), Peter Eisold (percussion & electronics)

Direction & text: Jörg Fürst, stage design: Jan Patrick Brandt, costumes: Monika Odenthal, video screening stage & social media video blog: Susann Martin, technical direction: Dirk Lohmann, production & PR: Britta Stalleicken, layout: molter&sartor, Düsseldorf, PR Cologne: neurohr&andrä, transportation: Schlax

The production, the WEEKEND Happening and the VolXbühne are supported by the Diversity Fund NRW, the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, the Kultursekretariat NRW and the MEG - Mülheimer Entsorgungsgesellschaft.