The People´s Princess
Iconic Rhetorics Series #2
Queen of Hearts works with Lady Diana as a reference point for an observation on status in society. As ‘The People’s Princess’, Diana stands for the paradox relation between monarchy and the people. Navaridas & Deutinger raise questions about the manipulative display of private and public affairs and the symbolic value of inherited power structures.
PRESS
“Impressive, playful, dense, thought-provoking. A league of their own.”
Daniel Hadler, Kleine Zeitung
“A performance that goes under your skin.”
Eveline Koberg, tanz.at
“Highly original. Deep. Very precise.”
Ditta Rudle, tanzschrift.at
"Don´t miss what starts as a happy sad, bitter sweet symphony of broken poetry, inviting for your own projections! A Lady Di in drag speaks out of the closet of a double life of the public figure slave to the rhythm and pace of her interdependent puppet master aka partner in crime to later name what is at stake in todays democracies: do you like it? do you?"
Gabrielle Cram, Dramaturge, twitter
DATES
2016 January 27, work-in-progress showing, Dansstationen, Malmoe (SE)
2016 March 30 (Premiere), 31, April 1, TTZ, Graz (AT)
2016 April 15 & 16, Tanzquartier, Halle G, Vienna (AT)
2017 April 22, studio showing, apap studio, Tanzfabrik, Berlin (DE)
2017 April 26, Feedback Festival, brut, Vienna (AT)
2017 August 25, B.Motion Festival, Teatro Remondini, Bassano del Grappa (IT)
CREDITS
Concept and Performance Marta Navaridas and Alex Deutinger Sound Engineering Stefan Ehgartner Light Designer Peter Thalhamer Music Stephan Sperlich Dramaturgy Support Frans Poelstra and Monika Klengel Drum Coach Erwin Schober Production Performanceinitiative 22 Co-production Tanzquartier Vienna Supported by Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Kulturamt der Stadt Graz, Kultur Land Steiermark, Dance-Identity Burgenland, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee – International Dance Program, Das Andere Theater Graz, IG Tanz Graz
Thanks to Sara González-Novi, Patrick Wurzwallner
Photos Kati Göttfried and Imre Zsibrik