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• mask theatre performance +audience talk
• italian mask performance
• live music pregnancy
• science fiction

• Mi., 07.12.2022, 20:00

Audience Talk following 'Monstrous'

"Microplastics have been found in the human placenta. It's like having a cyborg baby that is no longer just made of human cells." It sounds like the title of a science fiction movie, but in our present, babies are considered cyborgs before they are even born! Let´s discuss that topic in the audience talk afterwards.

• 1Photo ©Melissa Derio. Which monster are you pregnant with?
• 2 Mmakgosi Kgabi, Dancer, choreographer

Inspired by Francesca Sarah Toich's novel „Ad Bestias“, monstrous is set in a dystopian eco-dictatorship. The piece investigates different forms of pregnancy: women are artificially inseminated with animals, plants, minerals, emotions, natural phenomena and behaviors useful to the eco-regime. In the Audience Talk following the performance the artist Daniela Marcozzi will be there with her team of performers and the masks that have been borrowed from Museo MascheraSartori. What would you like to know about these extremely special and valuable masks from italy (worth more than 6000€). What do you think about the idea behind comparing a pregnancy with a science fiction scenario?

About the venue

ACUD Theatre

Since 1990, The ACUD Theater has been a place for innovative and experimental work that builds bridges between disciplines in the performing arts. It's Berlin Mitte district home offers 120 performances annually in a 70-seat theater, that include dance, physical theater, butoh, and mixed experimental performing forms. The large majority of ACUD's shows are new productions, Berlin premieres, or world premieres.An independent theater, ACUD supports national and international theater pieces, making daring experimentation possible. ACUD organizes festivals, initiates international exchanges, multicultural events, facilitates community engagement through theater, and hosts literary readings, workshops, master classes, and laboratories. 

About the Performance

Monstrous

Freely inspired by Toich’s novel “Ad Bestias”, the physical theater piece “monstrous” is set in a dystopian eco-dictatorship. Under the pressure of the regime, the human body becomes a deviant place of preservation and self-extinction at the same time, a
playground of tensions in which superhuman strength, discomfort, absurdity and monstrosity find their own expression. The piece investigates different forms of pregnancy: women are artificially inseminated with animals, plants, minerals, emotions, natural phenomena and behaviors useful to the eco-regime.

About the artist

Daniela Marcozzi / Marcozzi Contemporary Theater

Initiated by Daniela Marcozzi in 2015, MCT is a performative project and a physical theater company based in Berlin. The artistic language of MCT emerges from the synergy between body-voice training from Grotowski's research, physical theater techniques, contemporary dance, live music, vocal work, somatic practices and movement research. The poetics of MCT is inspired by scientific theories and principles of emotions, embodiment, deep ecology and systemic biology.