MEINHARDT & KRAUSS & FEIGL (Germany): R.O.O.M.

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Technics: Visual theatre with puppets - Video projection mapping
Language: German   
Audience: 12+ 
Duration: 55’

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The performance
Inexplicable, threatening and spectral: a room without a view and without an exit. The woman, unable to fathom how she ended up in this place, is also completely incapable of working out the laws that govern it. The space seems to have a life of its own. Windows that didn’t exist a moment ago,they are suddenly slammed. Landscapes scud through the room; clouds produce snow. Walls begin to crumble and the floor sways. Black-and-white projections abruptly appear only to quickly disappear again; noises, voices and music turn the room into an evocative gaol of image and illusion in which real life seems absorbed by virtuality, and space and time disintegrate.

A co-production with: FITZ! Stuttgart 
Supported by: LaFTBW (Landesverband Freier Theater Baden-Württemberg e.V. aus Mitteln des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst), Fonds Darstellende Künste, Stiftungen der LBBW
 
Meinhardt  Krauss  Feigl vibrant appreciation of the surreal invites their audience to accept fictitious illusion as fact. The combination of high-tech, poetry, virtuality and body is their trademark. In “R.O.O.M.”, a woman finds herself in a room she has never been in before. There is no view and no exit. She has no idea she got into this strange room, wich seems to have a character of its own...
 
The company
MEINHARDT KRAUSS FEIGL is consisted by the puppeteer and dancer Iris Meinhardt, the director and video artist Michael Krauss, video artist Oliver Feigl and the composer Thorsten Meinhardt. The performances of the in Stuttgart based company, are characterized from the vivid exchange between visual theatre, dance, film, new media and contemporary music. They merge Hightech and poetry, virtuality and human bodies to an unique theatrical language, that invites the audience with a vital sense for surealism to take something non-real for true.
The productions of the  freelanced ensemble have been invited to many national and international  important theatre festivals in more than fifteen countries so far and their work has been awarded with many prizes.
MEINHARDT KRAUSS FEIGL give national and international workshops in the fields of dance and puppetry, video and new media. They are guest lecturers at the University Stuttgart, Folkwang University of Arts, Essen, HfMDK Frankfurt.