ECLAT Konzert 4

ANTHROPOSCENE
How to Talk to Clouds
music theatre (2017) world premiere

Composition: Laurent Durupt
Stage design: Fabian Offert
Choreography: Jan Rohwedder
Performance: Stine Hertel, Anna Schewelew, Camilla Vetters
Costumes: Caroline Creutzburg/production manager: Carina Graf
Emma Landarrabilco, flute/Vianney Desplantes, trombone/
Stanislas Delannoy and Vincent Martin, percussion/Trami Nguyen, piano

International coproduktion by Centre Dramatique National Comédie de Reims and Musik der Jahrhunderte/Festival ECLAT Stuttgart.

ANTHROPOSCENE deals with the possibilities of actively shaping the planet in the Anthropo-cene. With the help of technologies from the field of artificial intelligence, it examines the potential of artistic strategies in what has so far been a predominantly scientific discourse.

‘Historically speaking, the theatre is the medium of the social–nature only appears in it as a backdrop that can be changed at will. In the age of the Anthropocene, in which the most important social issues are environmental issues, we have to reconsider this exclusivity if the theatre is to remain socially relevant.’ The three authors declare the theatre a laboratory, though, unlike Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship Earth, it is one that has numerous emergency exits. However, in the basic conditions for the experiments taking place in this laboratory, the theatre is similar to the planet as a whole in the Anthropocene: a closed space full of humans, a limited time span, an uncertain outcome.