Let me just say this – tonight is a night of stripping, tonight is a night of peeling away, layer by layer by layer by layer – What will be left? What will we know at the end of it all? Much less! That’s what!
Let’s begin….
Dark Matter a performance from Kate McIntosh hosted by a woman in a spotlight, dressed in a sparkling dress and a long grey beard. With the help of two assistants, some small strange dances and a few materials you might or might not have at home, Dark Matter approaches the big scientific-philosophical questions in a full-on show-biz late-night theatre style, illustrating these knotty conundrums – time and gravity, being and not being, thought and the body – through what look suspiciously like a series of improvised home-science experiments.
A project by Kate McIntosh
Performed by Thomas Kasebacher, Kate McIntosh, Bruno Roubicek
Text Kate McIntosh & Tim Etchells
Sound design Mikko Hynninen
Light design Minna Tiikkainen
Costumes Sofie Durnez
Dramaturg Pascale Petralia
Technical director Joëlle Reyns
Production Margarita Production for TOF vzw
Tour Management SPIN
Coproducers CONNECTIONS Network, Kaaitheater (B), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (F)
In partnership with De Pianofabriek (B), STUK Kunstencentrum (B), WorkSpace Brussels (B), WP Zimmer (B), fabrik Potsdam in the frame of Tanzplan Potsdam: Artists-in-Residence (D), Sophiensaele (D)
With the support of de Vlaamse Overheid, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
CONNECTIONS is a mentorship and production initiative of the theatre festival SPIELART Munich in Cooperation with CAMPO – Gent, Republique – Copenhagen, Forum Freies Theater – Düsseldorf, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee – Zürich, Huis en Festival a/d Werf – Utrecht, Choreographisches Zentrum NRW/PACT Zollverein – Essen, Theater im Pumpenhaus – Münster, Kanuti Gildi SAAL – Tallinn, The Student Center – Zagreb, Koproduktionshaus brut – Vienna.
DATES
22 – 24.01.2015 PuSH Festival, Vancouver (CA)
21.04.2013 Exodos Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Ljubljana (SI))
30 – 31.07.2012 Parque Cultural, Valparaíso (Chile)
28 – 29.06.2011 SommerSzene [Szene Salzburg], Salzburg (A)
28 – 29.04.2011 Plateaux festival [Künstlerhaus Mousonturm], Frankfurt (D)
13.04.2011 TUPP festival [Perfect Performance], Uppsala (S)
02.04.2011 Centre Pompidou, Metz (F)
30 – 31.12.2010 brut, Vienna (A)
20 – 21.11.2010 Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin (D)
12.11.2010 Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
01.11.2010 Grand Theatre, Groningen (NL)
02 – 03.10.2010 Fabrik Potsdam [Werkschau Tanzplan Potsdam], Potsdam (D)
24 – 25.09.2010 Monty, Antwerpen (B)
28 – 29.05.2010 Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht (NL)
12 – 13.05.2010 Pact Zollverein, Essen (D)
23.04.2010 KONTRAPUNKT 2010 [Puppets’ Theatre Pleciuga], Szczecin (PL)
18 – 20.03.2010 Centre Pompidou, Paris (F)
18 – 20.02.2010 brut, Vienna (A)
11 – 12.02.2010 CAMPO, Gent (B)
17 – 18.12.2009 Théâtre Arsenic, Lausanne (CH)
04 – 05.12.2009 Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
28 – 29.11.2009 Theaterfestival Spielart, München (D)
21 – 22.11.2009 Kaaistudio’s, Brussels (B) – PREMIERE