BÜHNENBESCHIMPFUNG

In the organizer's words:

Play by Sivan Ben Yishai. Production: CUMA Kollektiv
As part of the production series EIN STÜCK WEITER

"Boo for the whole system! Yay for the cultural system!" The theater has established itself quite well in its important-important socio-critical gesture. Sivan Ben Yishai drags the institution out of its comfort zone and subjects it to merciless criticism - to which there must be new answers.
Text: Sivan Ben Yishai. Production: CUMA Collective. Instruments used: (acoustic) guitar, (electric) bass, saxophone, synthesizer, electronic beats and a lot of noise.
www.cuma-kollektiv.com

CUMA is a Brazilian expression derived from the question "Excuse me?". CUMA is a brief interruption in which the unexpected can arise. The collective enters into this irritation. In its works, the collective focuses on the performative potential of music and its expressive possibilities. In the format of the physical theater concert, it combines music, dance and acting in a playful and entertaining way to create a pleasurable spectacle that leaves plenty of room for the audience's interpretation and encourages reflection. Social norms and stereotypes are questioned without offering simple solutions.

The CUMA collective consists of percussionist and drummer Bruna Cabral, saxophonist Jakob Jentgens and physical theater maker Elina Brams Ritzau. The three performers met while studying at the Folkwang University of the Arts. In 2020, they were involved in the performative band project The Peculiars at the Physical Fetz festival. In spring 2021, they developed the full-length physical theater concert Vacation from Love as their diploma thesis as part of Elina's physical theater studies, for which they were awarded the Folkwang Prize 2021 in the performing arts category.

How do young authors and theater makers look at the upheavals of our time? What is important to them? In the new series EIN STÜCK WEITER, the FWT: presents current dramatic positions that are brought to the stage in concentrated and rapid realizations. The series is designed to bundle creative energies and provide strong, unconventional and also unprotected impulses for what's happening in society and what gets on our nerves.