stay romantic

In a time when everything is just a click away, and disappears after the next click, the next news, the next picture, the next song or even the next war … there are no more moments                                                           that allow slowed down idleness and romantic contemplation. Romanticism, what was it again? Nature has lost its innocence, it is no longer whole, traces of toxic destruction have been left in the installative scenario on stage.   The audience finds itself in the middle of an installation and observes a painted panoramic landscape reminiscent of illusionary spaces from late Romanticism. At the same time, on a video level, present-day hyper-pop is quoted, which in turn meets analogue live music, as if from a pre-digital era. In the scenario pulsating through the different times and layers of                                                           perception, young performers of different ages appear and disappear. Their bodies tell stories of being »thrown«. Of digital overflow, of the current ecological crisis, of species extinction, of losses and their finality. But also about love   press: https://www.tanznetz.de/de/article/2022/barbara-schmidt-rohr-stay-romantic