© anja beutler
    © anja beutler

fade out

performance

Fade Out  starts exactly where other stories end. By manipulating a specific trope or mechanism of time based arts, it reverses the narrative logic and turns the end of a story into an epic of loss and longing, that continuously balances itself on the borders of disappearance.


Fade Out is a minimalist work, one that reduces the theatrical aesthetics to their core and lays open the very conditions of performing arts: “They were in the light. They were in the darkness.”
The two poles of any theatrical endeavour, actors and audience, and the intense yet delicate relationship they engage are moved into the foreground. Fade Out uses nothing more than light, space and the intense presence of two people on stage, to reflect on the mechanisms and potential of live time based art. “And here we are now!”

concept & direction
david weber-krebs
performance
carola bärtschiger, diego gil
lighting design
minna tiikkainen
sound
coordt linke
costumes
myriam van gucht
dramaturgy
jan-philipp possmann
artistic advice
nicole beutler
production
theater gasthuis, sophiensæle
in collaboration with
LISA
made possible with the support of
FAPK, VSB fonds

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frascati, amsterdam

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panorama festival, rio de janeiro, brazil

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100 dessus dessous, la villette, paris

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springdance preview, tseh dance, moscow

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lisa meets sophie, sophiensaele, berlin

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de donderdagen, singel, antwerpen

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something raw, brakke grond, amsterdam

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plateaux, mousonturm, frankfurt/main

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theater kikker, utrecht

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gasthuis, amsterdam

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