GLITCHKO

In its dependence on routines and symbols, our capitalist everyday life is united with the spirituality that it apparently opposes. On your morning commute to work, the climate-political podcast slurps through your ears as an urbanized sun salutation. The aloe vera soap (traditional Indian formula) helps to reconnect you with nature. Work-life balance? A quasi-religious dogma mirrored in the Yin-Yang symbolism of colorful laundry capsules. We depend on these routine gestures. But what if something unexpected happens, a glitch occurs and we can no longer rely on practiced reflexes?
In GLITCHKO we observe three different performers inside a boxing ring as their different understandings of the body collide: a flamenco dancer (Carolina Castro Marcos), a yogi (David Vexelman) and a boxer (Camilla Rocchi) in the midst of a sterile and flashy materiality. The performers wind themselves around the axis of corporeality, negotiating intimacy, hygiene and forms of communication in the field of tension between physical compulsion and control. Music (Gabriel Wörfel) and costume (Nele Brand) complete the hybrid picture: violin sounds meet mighty bass sounds and rap lyrics, old clothes are transformed into unique costumes. GLITCHKO succeeds in this modern theatrical composition with the help of the all new Multi-Intense-3in1-Plus-Performance-Technique.

The performance is made tangible on different levels and is intended to appeal to a wide range of people and stimulate them to think. Of course, people interested in art inside and outside Leipzig should be addressed, but also people who are interested in (competitive) sport or traditional dance (flamenco), for example. Children can also enjoy watching without having to understand any profound implications.

Visions of young artists need to be supported as much as possible, especially at the moment. Even if it seems unrealistic, we try our best to make the world a little better with every work we do. We try to find out what "better" means in our projects. In doing so, we connect people and create new awareness, among performers: inside as well as viewers.

Most of the proceeds will be distributed as fees to all participants in the project. A smaller part is required for travel costs, material costs and other things.