Creation 2021 presents a type of family that forms out of necessity and lives, or rather survives, in a garbage dump. The focus here is on a form of family that is becoming increasingly common: a temporary and kaleidoscopically changing affiliation which individuals hope will provide them with shelter and a moment of belonging or some security. For the system is dual. Anyone not giving in to the tyranny of compulsory consumption ends up with what the system excludes: the garbage. The fact that the piece is set in a dump, a waste disposal facility, may be read as a metaphor for the limitedness of possibilities in modern society: anything felt to be disturbing is cast out and disposed of on the dump. What lives here is excluded. In a fragile and constantly changing form of togetherness, an attempt is made to develop a parallel world with its own survival strategy and, above all, its own meaning in life.
Credits
Concept, direction, choreography, costumes: Martin Zimmermann
Created with and interpreted by: Tarek Halaby, Dimitri Jourde, Methinee Wongtrakoon, Martin Zimmermann
Music creation: tbd
Dramaturgy: Sabine Geistlich
Stage design: Martin Zimmermann, Simeon Meier
Technical conception stage design: Ingo Groher
Sound design: Andy Neresheimer
Light design: Sarah Büchel
Stage design construction: Ingo Groher
Artistic collaboration and Oeil extérieur: Eugénie Rebetez
Assistant director: tbd
Creation stage manager: tbd
Painting: Michèle Rebetez-Martin
Costumes confection: Doris Mazzella
Photography: Nelly Rodriguez
Video: Jonas Jäggy, Lukas Gähwiler
Graphic: Marietta Eugster Studio
Administration, distribution: Alain Vuignier
International producer: Claire Béjanin
Communication: Manuela Schlumpf
Technical office: Sarah Büchel
Accounting: Conny Heeb
Production: MZ Atelier
Co-production: in process
Premier: Autumn 2021, Zürich
Martin Zimmermann is supported by a cooperative funding agreement with the Culture Department City of Zurich, Department of Culture Canton Zurich and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.
Martin Zimmermann is Associated Artist at Tanzhaus Zürich.
