NUTCRACKER
360° installative dance evening
Staatstheater Kassel
Choreography United Cowboys Pauline Roelants, Maarten van der Put Stage Sebastian Hannak
Costume Katharina Fitz
Video creation Maarten van der Put Video editing and mapping Oscar van der Put
Lighting Jürgen Kolb
Dramaturgy Silke Meier-Brösicke
Dramaturgy Silke Meier-Brösicke
This exuberant dance evening in a 360° multiperspective environment has premiered in the new RAUMBÜHNE ANTIPOLIS, a huge installation that is built in three levels along the walls on the stage of the opera house that seats an additional 250 Spectators.
70 tons of Scaffolding were used on the whole stage, as well as 20 monitors and 6 huge
projection screens with radio linked live and preproduced videocontent, the whole floor is layed out with dance carpet. NUTCRACKER, an installative- space dance evening of the Netherlands based company United Cowboys is a total Welttheater consisting of image, sound, video and, of course, dance- asking the audience to surrender. A completely new piece with nods to the original Balllet as a contemporary, interdisciplinary production with
a new approach that shifts from reality to imagination, we created an abundance of impression with the wonderful 28 (!) dancers, one actress and two live musicians. Space and dance become a fascinating partnership, you can experience dance, video, music from all angles. Creating two very different performances (see CARMEN) within this
space has been a huge pleasure and shows ANTIPOLIS in all its changeability.
