Implied Violence

The Dorothy K.

LIVE PERFORMANCE: 9 pm - 11 pm

"The world taking shape onstage is molded by those who see it, not those who are creating the world they want to see." Theatre legend Robert Wilson brought Implied Violence as Artists in Residence to his Watermill Centre on Long Island; this is where the young American performance collective began to pull the threads for a remarkable, performative large-scale enterprise entitled “The Dorothy K” which wowed the art and theatre world at last year’s New Island Festival in New York. With the further development of their work, which blurs the boundaries between performance, dance, installation, theatre and art pop while exhausting its performers to the point of physical and emotional breakdown, Implied Violence will be celebrating their European debut at the donaufestival. With the great Hermes Phettberg as guest performer!
“The Dorothy K.” will open its gates for several hours every day, inviting visitors to a durative installation, the daily major-live-performance (see daily line-ups) as well as to a number of other actions and interventions which will be announced on the festival premises at short notice.
Collaborating closely with Zac Pennington and The Parenthetical Girls, Implied Violence has created a piece that frequently spins out of control, manipulates the flexibility and rigidity of the American moral code, exhausts its performers to the point of physical breakdown highlighting the difference between difficult, strenuous, thrashing movement and true ecstatic fits.
Zac Pennington, in collaboration with Implied Violence, has created a beautiful and menacing four-part suite beginning with “The Plague of Marcus”. These songs chart the epic fall and destruction of the principal characters in Erich Von Stroheims’ most brilliant and mysterious film “Greed”.
Text sends the audience through different phases of experience as well: as quiet, delicate explanations of the subtext of images; as a chattering and full undercurrent of action, providing highly textually choreographed moments framed by the images and actions that are sitting on top of the text; as its own narrative through-line that has nothing to do with action, image, or sound. These disparate sets of text used within the play construct complex layers of codependence that illustrate the way the characters relate to one another in their moral game.

Ryan Mitchell, Mandie O’Connell, Lily Ngyuen, Jessie Smith and guests
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Wagnerian Orchestra:
Violin: Sir Tralala
Violin: Julia Pichler
Viola: Judith Reiter
Cello: Lucy Cotten
Oboe: Helene Kenyeri
Flute: Daniela Lahner
Clarinet: Manuel Schönegger
Trumpet: Martin Lang
Trombone: Clemens Hofer

The Dorothy K. is produced by Implied Violence, in partnership with donaufestival and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, with funding from the Frye Foundation.