Oriente Plus / Power Cut 2022 Tour

The performances were as varied as the venues, most of them were in public space. We prepared each location in such a way that the audience could take a position from which to have an aesthetic view of the performance space that we had adapted. Each performance was unique. Every place has a different atmosphere. The subsoil, benches, a tree in the center of Graz, a ship in front of the Fishermen's Museum in Brighton, houses, cafés, or the sea. For me as a musician, it was special to explore the different sound behavior of music and the voices of the spoken text in relation to the background noise in order to create an atmosphere in which the theater ORIENTE PLUS/POWER CUT can be experienced by the audience. This had a very lively influence on the composition, which has evolved in constant exchange with the surroundings.

The audience watched the performance with joy, interested and suprise and and we were able to catch passers-by to stop and watch the spectacle. A serious, humorous story yet with the necessary respect for the historical and contemporary confrontation of the oppression of certain cultures and social groups. I found it particularly important to establish art and theater in public space as a matter of course.

The locations of performances have taken us to different countries. The understanding through cultural borders using a common language that connects the people of this world was always an aim of this production. The structure of expression of the story awakens the mythological consciousness and thereby makes it possible to communicate content across language barriers. Sign theatre, dance, music, and words merge into an extremely lively and original form that makes complex, contemporary art understandable and thus appeals to a wide and diverse audience.                              Thanks to Signdance Collective for their progressive work!

Liebe Grüße

Angelina Schwammerlin