And suddenly the sun stood still

CATALOGUE OF THE GREAT INSULTS OF HUMANITY | PART 1

"If the Earth were to rotate at high speed, wouldn't everything fly away? Clouds and birds could no longer keep pace." (Dava Stobel)

500 years ago, man started to move, and he did it reluctantly. Pushed from the comfortable center of being into the orbit of the sun, constantly orbiting the center of one's own planet and 'recently' part of a slow-motion and frenzied expansion away from the center of the Big Bang, "it is now rolling away from the center faster and faster – where to? Into nothingness? Into the 'piercing feeling of his nothingness'," says Friedrich Nietzsche.

"And suddenly the sun stood still" is the opening piece of a series of four pieces in which the ensemble deals with the "great insults of humanity" according to Sigmund Freud. Curious, they follow man's constant attempts to explain and interpret the world anew after the loss of fundamental certainties.

In an unmistakable stage language of highly developed projection technology, choreography and text, galaxies are created from points of light, smoldering solar spheres float through space, concentric circular paths run across the stage and player and comet impacts make the stage tremble. In a playful way, the laws of space, time and gravity are questioned and dissolved.

A cosmic play of light about world models, world views and world dreams.

" ... a meditative, astonishing staging. A virtual and real game that means the contrast of light and shadow not only physically, but also philosophically and psychologically..." " ... the choreography of body and light fascinates ... Be sure to watch" (Stuttgarter Nachrichten)

 

"... the visual experience is famos. Star roads, spherical worlds, shining spheres, smoldering hellfires and again and again endless Milky Ways: the cosmos, which lives in the small trapped essence of the infinite, is tangible..." (Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung)

CO-PRODUCTION WITH FITZ! Stuttgart, the Lindenfels Westfügel Leipzig, PMD-Art Berlin in cooperation with the Planetarium Stuttgart

FUNDED BY the Conception Promotion of the City of Stuttgart, the Centre for Puppet Theatre Stuttgart and Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V.

PREMIERE 06.11.2014, FITZ! Stuttgart

DANCE/PERFORMANCE Iris Meinhardt

DIRECTOR/SCENOGRAPHY Michael Krauss

VIDEO/PROGRAMMING Oliver Feigl

MUSIC/COMPOSITION Thorsten Meinhardt

RESONANT TECHNOLOGY Marcus Doering, André Bernhardt

ILLUSION TECHNIQUES Nils Bennett

SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT Prof. Hans-Ulrich Keller (astronomer)