FigurenTheater Tübingen Germany
Salto.Lamento UK Premiere
With live music by rat‘n’X
(Johannes Frisch & Stefan Mertin)
ICA Theatre >
Sun 11 to Wed 14 Jan 8pm
After Show Discussion Mon 12 Jan
Runs approx 65 mins/no interval
All seats £13.50 (£11 concs)
Online booking opens 10 Nov >
‘Soehnle charms his expressively masked and costumed figures into appearing as if from nowhere. This surreal kaleidoscope is a wordless, weightless dance upon graves. The audience is spellbound, breathless, fascinated.' Reutlinger Nachtrichten
A drawer opens…secret messages escape, entrapping strange Centaur-like creatures, half man, half-beast. They force their way into the back rooms of memory where they meet a multi-faceted Death, effortlessly, dancing, almost skipping. Reflecting the artistic tradition of the Dance of the Dead from medieval iconography, a cycle of poetic and bizarre metamorphoses unfolds.
Founded in 1991 by Frank Soehnle and Karin Ersching, Figurentheater Tübingen works at the intersection of puppetry, object theatre and live art. Far away from familiar theatre disciplines, both in their stage shows and many short films for TV culture channels 3sat and arteZDF they continually break new artistic ground.
