Nico and the Navigators - the employee performance Before they enter the fabulous world of business, their sneakers have to be polished, because somewhere above their heads reigns Mr. Fock, the nebulous, unreachable boss. "Eggs on Earth", the second part of the cycle "Menschenbilder" by the group Nico and the Navigators, founded in 1998 at the Bauhaus Dessau, leads right into the middle of working life. A virtuoso slapstick version of Widmer's "Top Dogs" is what one critic called the series of scenes in which Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin say hello. In a sky-blue cube, a multifunctional surprise box, the office clowns fight with the insidiousness of the furniture, director Nicola Hümpel shows in surreal reflections the everyday rituals of adaptation, humiliation, deformation, the nightmarish game of repetitions. A collage of movement, sound, language and space images, in which seriousness and sadness, frivolity, playfulness and grotesque comedy are paired.

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