The Loose Collective at Mittelfest

THE OLD TESTAMENT according to The Loose Collective

22 July, 10.30pm
Piazza Duomo
Cividale del Friuli (UD)

Concept and performance Alex Deutinger, Alexander Gottfarb, Thomas Kasebacher, Marta Navaridas, Anna Maria Nowak
Music and composition Guenther Berger e Stephan Sperlich – 78plus
Costumes Hanna Hollmann
Light Peter Thalhamer
Sound Stefan Ehgartner
Outside eye Jacob Banigan
Production Kunstverein Archipelago Wien e Performanceinitiative 22 Graz
Co-production Tanzquartier Wien
In collaboration with D.I.D / Dance Identity Burgenland, EU-Cultural Programme Modul-Dance, DanceIreland Dublin, Dansenshus Stockholm, Dansescenen Copenhagen and Co-Festival, Kino Šiška Ljubljana
With the support of Ma7 Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, Stadt Graz Kultur, Kultur Land Steiermark and bmu:kk, PlanTS

“Warning: all the texts recited and sung in this performance are quotations from the Old Testament, as in the King James Bible of 1611.” Can a text from the sacred canon become a cubist musical with neo-Baroque choruses, beat-box raids and daringly edited effects? If it takes the form of the startling spectacle staged by this Austrian-based international collective, it can. This group of exuberant youngsters is convinced that the old sacred book is still an expression of creativity and idealism.

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