WE ARE GOING TO MARS – A CHOREOGRAPHIC CONCERT 2022

The choreographic concert We Are Going To Mars follows the two video works of the same name by the company Christoph Winkler, which celebrated their online premiere in November 2021: In a mixture of video, dance and music, the participating artists examined the history of the first African space programme in Zambia and its reception over the past 50 years. They also build a bridge to the work of the Afro-American musician Sun Ra, who developed his credo “Space is the place” at the same time.

For the first time, the Christoph Winkler Company is now performing the complete soundtrack created especially for the project, in which the band Mourning [A] BLKstar takes up some aspects of the story. A sonic associative space is created in which the dancers now introduce their own movements. From these dance miniatures and in connection with the songs of the band, a free collage develops about the longing of the “Afronauts” for Mars and what it can stand for.

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For the Garden Gaia project, Hendrik Weber aka Pantha du Prince puts together ideas of ecology and aesthetics, nature and humankind in a variety of media. The music, released as an album at the end of August 2022, translates formative processes in nature into oscillating sound poetry that mediates between echoes of techno and avant-garde. With the Chor der Kulturen der Welt and percussionists, as well as partly self-built sound generators, Weber now brings it to the stage as a comprehensive audiovisual performance, which in turn represents a world of its own.