Premieres: Music theater with Nico and the Navigators on March 6 and "Brickland" by Constanza Macras and her ensemble Dorky Park on March 12 at Kampnagel By Klaus Witzeling ...Nico and the Navigators, on the other hand, strike quieter and more tender tones in their music theater "Although I Know You": For director Nicola Hümpel, set designer Oliver Proske and musician Frauke Ritter, love and friendship between people still seem possible. The group also comes from Berlin, Hümpel and Proske know each other from Hamburg from their studies at the HfbK. In 1998 Hümpel founded Nico and the Navigators at the Bauhaus Dessau and experiments with the artist collective on the borders of visual and performing arts. Two years ago they gave a guest performance at Kampnagel with "Kain wenn und aber," an installation with text and music, and in 2009 they worked on a major music theater project for the Handel Festival in Halle. For the world premiere of "Although I Know You," she and Proske are designing a poetic image and music theater in which spaces of thought and association open up to the audience. In the actors' dialogue with violin and piano, they examine the rules of the two-way relationship. In their typically visual expressive and atmospheric sound language, the director and spatial designer allow situational images to emerge, which the viewer can assemble into a head cinema dealing with friendly conspiracies and self-chosen coercive relationships.

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