Hydráos

a LUVOSmove® project

A lyrical fantasy about the history of evolution sets our closeness to the animal and plant world in vibration and frees seeing and thinking from anthropocentrism.

It's alive. It breathes. It moves. Muffled, like in water. But is it an animal? Plant? Man? Lemurs?

Nervous twitching, lifting and lowering, weighing and shifting. It intertwines, waves, contracts and stretches, crawls, dances, rolls. Organic at any rate and highly peculiar, sometimes dreamy gentle, then threatening and wild, a tangle of limbs, as if taken apart and reassembled into new formations: Legs like feelers, hulls without head, moving sculpture, archaic poses and always surprising moments of breathtaking harmony of forms and movements.

The new body illusion theatre of the editta braun company is an underwater fantasy of alienating, sometimes disturbing beauty. Supported by Thierry Zaboitzeff's masterfully atmospheric compositions between distorted piano sounds, meditative bubbling and hammering beats, three dancers immerse the viewer in a world of gentle waves that is both primeval and futuristic. Do the blue-green water creatures originate from a gene laboratory or are they pioneers of a new evolution that will repopulate our planet after the extinction of the species Homo sapiens? This time without the right of the strongest and competition, without the right of the strongest, without eating and being eaten?

Beyond good and evil, in a time or world before or after this distinction, this organism is pure life that lives, breathes, moves. Until the end.

Hydráos occidental version

Premiere: 24. Jänner 2024

Stadttheater Gießen, Deutschland

Hydráos oriental version

premiere under the title Fanghoumé: 8 February 2019

Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, École des Sables

dance from 2023 on:

Sonia Borkowicz, Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger, Simona Štangová

composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff

fragments from piano pieces by Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy

light design: Thomas Hinterberger