The birth of Aside…

April 2014 – The location is the Mojo Club, Hamburg. The performance part of the 150% Made in Hamburg Theaterfest. The expected audience are hip, young, experimental theatre culture creatives. The expected performance, a multi-media, ultra-experimental, cutting edge new music extravaganza.

This high gloss facade is created with a video-art backdrop, extravagant costumes and make-up, live-electronics, O-tone recordings, live instruments and loopers.

The ultra-hip entrance and overture establish expectations and prejudices. From a high gloss performance a certain perfection, professionality and mystique is expected. There are many unspoken rules for how a performance should be and how a performer should act on stage.

However soon cracks begin to show and the facade begins to crumble revealing what lies beneath…

Kindly supported by The Rusch Stiftung, KKWV of the UdK, Berlin and KLANGZEITORT, the institute for new music of the UdK and HfM Hanns Eisler