Music theatre: 25 years of Nico and the Navigators
Link to the article: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/118110-000-A/musiktheater-25-jahre-nico-and-the-navigators/
Transcript:
Mod: In their anniversary production, Nico and the Navigators go on a trip. "sweet surrogates" is about the longing for collective intoxication, but also about the big question of what art can still achieve today.
N. Hümpel: The question we ask ourselves is: can culture still intoxicate us in a time of social and political upheaval, in a cultural end-time mood? Can we still fly away in moments? Can we, together with the audience, still live this situation and make it tangible so that we remember who we are?
Mod: Live cameras extend the stage into digital space. There is often something psychedelic about playing with perception here.
Proske: We try to use filmic means to portray the state of intoxication in a different way. In other words, to alienate the image recorded live in such a way that the means we have there actually create a feeling of what it might be like to be intoxicated.
Mod: The piece was again developed through collective research.
The collage moves between ecstasy and dissolution of boundaries, delusion and melancholy and fuses different musical styles.
Hümpel: The music selection is simply the result of the participating artists deciding what they want to contribute to this theme, what their feelings are.
Mod: Nico and the Navigators, the pioneers of a new musical theatre, still have the knack.