Tiersein | 2020 – Bookable
Walking act with finale and workshop
The animals have been gone for years. There is no place for them where people are. But I have seen them. I have seen them peeking out from behind the wall. How they glided over the rubble, watching me from the thicket. They remind me of something. Something that claims its place and challenges me. What if all the spirits of the extinct, displaced, and forgotten animals came back to the city, to where they used to live? What if they roared their fear and grief in the middle of the crowd with animalistic power? TierSein is a thought experiment with the utopian idea that humans and animals can live together peacefully. TierSein is street theater with animal spirits and those who have not yet died.
"The animal is the other within us. Man is the animal that denies its animal nature."
– Georges Batailles
TierSein is a co-production with FITZ – Theater animierter Formen Stuttgart and EWerk Freiburg.
Artistic team (puppet construction, puppetry, direction): Esther Falk, Maik Evers, Vanessa Valk
Workshop offer: Anja Müller, Mirjam Ellenbroek
Supported by the Baden-Württemberg Association of Independent Dance and Theater Artists
Württemberg e.V. with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research, and
Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg, from the Performing Arts Fund, using funds
the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Cultural Office of the
City of Freiburg