ENDE neu

ENDE NEU
PREMIERE
31.05.2022 – 8 p.m.

01.06.2022 – 8 p.m.
02.06.2022 – 8 p.m.

PRODUCTION
TEMA

COPRODUCTION
KulturKontakt Eppan
Festival Wege durch das Land

DIRECTION and CHOREOGRAPHY
Veronika Riz

MUSIK and COMPOSITION
Matthew Herbert

TANZ with and by
Adaya Berkovich
Lena Kilchitskaya
Gabriel Lawton
Marcin Motyl

MUSIC performed by:
Eren Solak (electronics)
Jozef Dumoulin (keyboards/electronics)
Eric Thielemans (percussion/electronics)
Marcin Motyl

SUBJECT
Marco Gnaccolini

STAGE and LIGHT
Alberto Scodro

COSTUMES
Dagmar Gruber

DRAMARTUGY
Marco Gnaccolini
Maya Weinberg

ASSISTANT TO CREATION
Hwan Hee Hwang

VIDEO
Nuno Escudeiro

SOUND FOR VIDEO
Stefano Bernardi
Pierluca Ditano

ASSISTANT TO DIRECTION
Davide Camplani

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Erwin Canderl



TECHNIC
Julian Geier

ORGANISATION
Anna Lageder
Carmen Cian

Concept

As part of the annual program 2022 of “KuturKontakt Eppan” and in the program of the festival “Wege durch das Land” in Germany will be premiered the dance performance ENDE NEU.
It is a piece with four contemporary dancers and three musicians in the field of electronic music. Three performances are planned on May 31 and June 1 and 2, 2022 in Eppan at the Sankt Michael Eppan Winery, followed by another performance on June 5 in Wendlinghausen in Germany.
The author Marco Gnaccolini has written the story in close collaboration with the choreographer Veronika Riz, he will accompany ENDE NEU dramaturgically.
Veronika Riz will direct and create the choreography. After the last successful production “Trequanda”, which dealt with the theme of global warming and climate change, now the theme of a world between reality and fiction, between isolation and escape, between confinement and flight.
It is of great concern to us to give great value to the music during the production.
Therefore, we choose only musicians and composers of high level. At Trequanda, a soloist of the Klangforum Wien and the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, conducted by Leonhard Garms, played works by Johannes Maria Staud. This time, compositions will be played by the well-known electronic musician Matthew Herbert, who will personally perform with two musicians. A video will frame the performance.
The story is dedicated to the human power of imagination and how much it shapes our reality. In a time when reality and fiction, real and fake, information and disinformation merge beyond recognition.

Four people live in a very confined space in their familiar everyday life, from which they repeatedly break out into another fictitious world. Through wanton interventions, they question the principle of cause and effect, disrupt, disturb and boycott familiar conditions and accustomed processes.
In their search for the definition of “truth”, actors and musicians throw themselves into the field between lies and truth, certainty and lostness, fiction and reality, and along the way also disrupt their own life constructs. Oscillating between finely crafted dramaturgy and absolute nonsense, ENDE NEU raises questions about how aware we are of the subliminal beliefs we live by.
Destruction is not seen here primarily as a process with a tragic end, but rather as a potential prelude to developing something new.
An algorithm, chance creates the characters of the piece at the beginning. Actually, the worlds/the lives are computer generated after all. Who controls whom? This conundrum between possibilities
remains exciting and a nice dimension to reflect human relationships. Everyday people and nerds.
Real and yet not real?
The conclusion of the piece is downright touching. It seems that technology dominates man, but in the end man is left with the decision to dominate the machine with his own emotional world.
As with Trequanda, the artist Alberto Scodro will design the space and lighting, and the fashion designer Dagmar Gruber from Bolzano will create the costumes.