An evening of poetry with Nico and the Navigators

Just a moment ago, the two men were chasing each other around the playing surface on a roller board, laughing happily, until one of them refused to back the other up. Now they remain statuesque under a cloth and let themselves be looked at by a distinguished Englishman. - He compares them to a Henry Moore sculpture, but still wants to force his business cards on them. He is interrupted by a dancing Asian woman: The three men stare at her in consternation at first, until one of them faints. Meanwhile, the Englishman slips his card to the enchanting beauty. Approaches, but also rejections can be funny, painful, imaginative and touching. In the production "Although I Know You" at the Sophiensälen, the ensemble Nico and the Navigators, directed by Nicola Hümpel, explore many forms of friendship and enmity. The flexible, quickly changeable stage design made of pressed cardboard by Oliver Proske gives the four actors the possibility to create different spaces according to their needs. Martin Clausen, Adrian Gillott, Alberto Spagone and Miyoko Urayama repeatedly quote Nietzsche, Wagner, Goethe and Schiller in a wide variety of languages. The spoken word, however, is far less important than the artists' dialogue with the music that guides their movements. Violinist Sabine Akiko Ahrendt and Thomas Bloch-Bonhoff on the keyboard are part of the action with their delicate, bizarre, stirring sounds. One does not always understand what is happening on the playing surface. But the changing images of the poetic-musical movement theater appeal to all senses and fascinate until the last second.

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