In their new solo performance, Navaridas & Deutinger humorously and poetically explore the dialectics of uselessness versus usefulness and visibility versus invisibility in the guise of a ghostly artist or and artistic ghost. After long months of ‘ghost game performances’ without spectators in the theater, this is an evening in front of a live audience with an un/real ghost.
“It is a very subtle play with the visible, the obvious and the invisible that Marta Navaridas and Alex Deutinger present in their production ‘Hausgeist’ on the stage of Haus 2. With a lot of humor but also a lot of philosophy and a good portion of melancholy the essence of existence is put to question. [...] Once again, the performance duo succeeds in a finely drawn exploration of human existence, in which essential questions are dealt with in a highly entertaining way. Worth seeing.”
Kronen Zeitung, Michaela Reichart, 06/17/2021
“He [note Alex Deutinger as 'Hausgeist'] dances, tells of fears, dreams and the sudden honesty of the dying. And he bangs loudly against a wall several times while trying to walk through it. So the stage is not haunted after all; rather, the expressive solo choreographed by Marta Navaridas is about isolation and the basic need for closeness. How fleeting this has recently turned out to be is the actually scary thing which this show is talking about.”
Kleine Zeitung, Ute Baumhackl, 06/17/2021
Concept_ |
Alex Deutinger and Marta Navaridas |
Direction & Choreography_ | Marta Navaridas |
Text_ | Alex Deutinger |
Performance_ |
Alex Deutinger |
Costumes & Stage_ | Matthias Dielacher |
Sound Design & Live music_ | Manuel Riegler |
Artistic Research_ | Florin Flueras, Christoph Szalay |
Outside Eyes_ | Monika Klenger, Jacob Banigan |
Production Manager_ | Sophie Schmeiser / mollusca productions |
Production_ | Performanceinitiative 22 |
Co-production_ | Schauspielhaus Graz |
Supported by_ |
Kulturamt der Stadt Graz, Kultur Land Steiermark |
Thanks to_ | Everyone who shared their ghosts stories |
Photos_ | Johanna Lamprecht |