Bilderschlachten
Exuberant, brightly colored, and unrestrained. Bilderschlachten explores the power of images. Using Dadaist tableaux vivants choreographer Stephanie Thiersch, in collaboration with composer Brigitta Muntendorf (in 2024 at Holland Festival with Melencolia), create a powerful, passionate, and poetically provocative ballet.
festival Holland festival
duration 1 hour 20 minutes
genre Theatre
language No problem
Bilderschlachten
The production comes to life with 41 musicians from the renowned Residentie Orkest, the Asasello Quartet, and eight dancers. The danse macabre (a theatrical dance that is at once macabre and playful, playing with themes of mortality, decay, and cultural chaos) draws from our cultural history and bombards us with a relentless stream of images, reminding us of the constant overstimulation of modern life.-|-
Thiersch and Muntendorf chose Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu as a musical counterpart to the visual language of the piece. This collage brings together musical fragments from Bach to Beethoven, and from Berlioz to Stockhausen. Composer Brigitta Muntendorf arranged it so the music mirrors the visual references – a kind of 'sound version' of the images you see.
From 3 to 28 June, the 79th edition of the Holland Festival, the Netherlands' groundbreaking international performing arts festival, will take place. Here you can see performances that you would not otherwise see in the Netherlands. For a whole month, you can enjoy international artists who push the boundaries of dance, music and theatre. From 13 to 27 June, you can see six different productions from this festival at ITA.
Credits
concept Stephanie Thiersch
choreography Stephanie Thiersch, Fabien Almakiewicz, Neus Barcons Roca, Julien Ferranti, Alexis ‘Maca’ Fernández, Aaron Samuel Davis, Gyung Moo Kim, Alexandra Naudet, Camille Revol, Joel Suárez Gómez
direction Stephanie Thiersch
musical direction Brigitta Muntendorf
music Brigitta Muntendorf
conductor Benjamin Shwartz
performed by Asasello Quartett
1st violin Rostislav Kozhevnikov
second violin Barbara Streil
cello Teemu Myöhänen
alto violin Justyna Sliwa
dance Fabien Almakiewicz, Neus Barcons Roca, Alexis ‘Maca’ Fernández, Julien Ferranti, Gyung Moo Kim, Alexandra Naudet, Camille Revol, Joel Suárez Gómez-|-
lighting design Begoña Garcia Navas
costume design Sita Messer
assistant choreography Marcela Ruíz Quintero
outside eye Stawrula Panagiotaki, Fabrice Ramalignom
sound Sebastian Schottke
technical direction Fabian Bleisch
production management Sarah Heinrich
management Dwayne Holliday
composition Bernd Alois Zimmermann (Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu, 1968), Brigitta Muntendorf
coproduction Théâtre de Nîmes, Beethovenfest Bonn, Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Freihandelszone – Ensemblenetzwerk Köln
with support from Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln
