disdance projekt | DER BAU – multimediales Theater nach Franz Kafka

In the organizer's words:

A woman. Her bubbles. AI. You. Interactive. Multimedia.

- Nominated for the Cologne Theater Award 2024 -

Experience a fusion of your thoughts, Kafka's text, acting, dance, AI and video.

A piece that makes your thoughts audible.

The story depicts the futile struggle to perfect a huge earthwork to protect against enemies. disdance project stages Kafka's fragment interactively and using multimedia, taking audience participation to a new level. The text is dynamically created anew in each performance - with the help of AI-generated emotional voice models. Is that Kafka? Or my neighbor? Is this live or did algorithms predict it? Am I sure?

CAST:

Director/ Video/ Sound/ Programming: André Lehnert

Choreography/ dance/ acting/ narrator: Paula Scherf

Writing/ set design: Paula Scherf & André Lehnert

Assistant director, video, sound, light: Emil Lehnert

Assistant director, production: Emma Wende

Production/ organizer: disdance project gUG

disdance project has been realizing interdisciplinary projects in the fields of dance, theater and video art in Cologne since 2003. In 2024, the video installation NACHTS after Kafka was created with the use of artificial intelligence. The production STÖRFALL was awarded the Kölner Kunstsalon Theaterpreis 2022, the production BRENNEN was nominated for the Kölner Theaterpreis 2023. Together with the former Cologne artistic director Hansgünther Heyme, the theatrical video installation HERAKLES was created in 2020/21.

FÖRDERER:
The production was funded in 2024 by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal, NRW Ministry of Culture and Science, Rheinenergiestiftung Kultur

The guest performance as part of the festival "Auf dem Sprung" is funded by the NRW Landesbüro Tanz.

Price information:

Admission on a donation basis