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Hyperion – Higher States, Part 2 UA

Kiriakos Hadjiioannou (Konzept), Kiriakos Hadjiioannou und Fabrice Mazliah (Regie), Ensemble Modern (Komposition) von und mit: Tamara Bacci, Eva Böcker, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou, Megumi Kasakawa, Fabrice Mazliah, Giorgos Panagiotidis, Nancy Stamatopoulou, Sava Stoianov, Dietmar Wiesner, Johannes Helberger / kling klang klong (Sound Artist), Alexander Kolb (Klangregie), Urs Steiner (Bühnenbild), Jost von Harleßem (Lichtdesign), Orsalia Parthenis (Kostüme), Margarita Tsomou, Bernhard Siebert (Dramaturgie), Katerina Drakopoulou (Produktionsassistenz)

Künstlerhaus Mousonturm

Longing for a perfect world, Hölderlin’s early romantic figure of Hyperion oscillates between manic-depressive and hallucinatory, euphoric states. His attempts to unite art, nature, love and revolution in harmony fail. Exhausted, Hyperion withdraws to a Greek island, where he devotes himself to writing letters. Ensemble Modern, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou and Fabrice Mazliah explore these attitudes, creating a dance and music performance in letter sequencies, a distorted adaptation of the novel which transforms the isolation of the hermit’s existence, his flights of intellect and lust and his clinging to hope after defeat into movement and sound.

Supported by Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst sowie den Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft.

Followed by Pink Sofa

Further performances on 27 and 28 November 2017 (8 pm) at Mousonturm Frankfurt as well as from 12 to 16 December 2017 at Kaserne Basel /Switzerland (7.30 pm).

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