Human relationships – quite a complicated world

Coherent musical theater by "Nico And The Navigators A likes B, but B doesn't want to know about it. Maybe A should have gone away with D after all." "Although I Know You" by "Nico And The Navigators" is about the complicated world of interpersonal relationships. The Berlin group's music theater performance premiered at Kampnagel and was enthusiastically received by the audience. Ten years ago, director Nicola Hümpel and set designer Oliver Proske founded the ensemble of actors, dancers, visual artists and musicians. Three years ago, in "Cain, If & But," they asked how humans make decisions. This time, too, the focus is on people - namely the I in interaction with the You. One woman and three men fight for attention in Oliver Proske's variable box. There is dancing and gymnastics, speeches and compliments. The quartet, Miyoko Urayama, Martin Clausen, Adrian Gillott and Oliver Zgorelec, enter the ring with great physical effort and concentration. Look here, their figures shout, perceive me! The music by Sabine Akiko Ahrendt (violin) and Thomas Bloch-Bonhoff (keyboard) accompanies the four on their ego trips - tenderly enveloping or violently attacking, as melody or as soundscape. The texts are taken from correspondence between the pairs of friends Schiller and Goethe, Wagner and Nietzsche, Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. A small, fine, very human piece.

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