STAUB

In the organizer's words:

From O-Team

"For dust you are, to dust you must return." Bible
"We are like the spider.
We weave our life and then move in it.
We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in that dream.
This applies to the entire universe." Upanishads

We are a constant falling apart, a slow dying or dusting. We lose parts of ourselves and add them to a commonwealth of dust that includes other beings and their repulsions - hair, grains, pollen, pulverized stars, synthetic fibers, minerals, tire abrasions and dust mites. Dust is dissolution and decay, but also the breeding ground for constantly renewing life. Dust permeates everything and defies any idea of wholeness, closure, permanence and control.

Dust is an interdisciplinary project with elements of object theater, visual art, performance and music theater. We see a space, a home, that is slowly disintegrating. Just as we are disintegrating, just as our living environment, ecosystems, culture, social structures and dreams are disintegrating. Dust is a performative meditation on transience, death and decay. Dust is a theatrical devotion, a vanitas still life, a ritual dissolution of civilizational ballast as liberation, a peeling or shedding of skin. Dust is beauty, peace and serenity.

ARTIST DIRECTOR / CONCEPT / SPACE: Samuel Hof, Nina Malotta

PERFORMANCE / OBJECTS: Marius Alsleben, Nina Malotta, Antje Töpfer

MUSIC: Marius Alsleben, Michael Fiedler

OUTSIDE EYE: Yara Richter, Bastian Sistig

PRODUCTION / GRAPHICS / PHOTOS: Markus Niessner

ASSISTANCE: Kristina Arlekinova

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: Álvaro García

PRESS AND PUBLICITY WORK: Kathrin Stärk

STAGE CONSTRUCTION: Frederic Ehlers, Anton Röcker, Team

Staub is a production by O-Team in cooperation with Theater Rampe. Supported by the state capital Stuttgart and the Landesverband freier Tanz- und Theaterschaffender Baden-Württemberg e.V. with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg. With the kind support of Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V.