Who cares about the stature of man when we can go to the moon? Originating from Hannah Arendt’s question, “Moonstruck” went to the dark side. Long before current space barons flew to the moon, it served as a projection surface, a phantasmagorical colony dating back to the Columbian era. Inspired by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s essay “In Praise of Shadows” the show celebrates the performative potential of darkness, its textures and nuances in an interplay of performers, light, objects, and sound. Set to a Joseph Wegmann’s playful light and shadow composition and the intense sounds of Nkisi, Moonstruck: in praise of shadows is full of cosmic weather phenomena, calling up the fantasies of western humanism to ultimately confront them with the realities of the planet we call home.
2021: Premiere / HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
2021: FFT Düsseldorf
2021: Gessnerallee Zürich
