Karl Karner and Linda Samaraweerová: Alan Greenspangrünspan

“If I could figure out a way to determine whether or not people are more fearful or changing to be more euphoric... And if I had a third way of figuring out which of the two things are working... I wouldn’t need any of this other stuff. I could forecast the economy better than any way I know. The trouble is that we can’t figure that out. I've been in the forecasting business for 50 years - more than that actually - but I’m no better than I ever was and nobody else is. Forecasting 50 years ago was as good or as bad as it is today.”
Alan Greenspan


With their new choreography, titled “Alan Greenspangrünspan”, fine artist Karl Karner and choreographer Linda Samaraweerova once again remain faithful to their method of letting genre- and form-bursting artistic, sculptural elements on stage become participating and co-defining parts of the plot. Karner/Samaraweerová’s works are not designed for the stage, but always for stage spaces, possibly for the three-dimensionality of a space in the actual sense of the word: What is happening on stage can only be understood through the interplay between the concrete intention of the artists, the responsiveness of the recipients and the manipulation of the space; this “having-to-be” in the space. The choreographed space acts as the aesthetic, concrete world of ideas and possibilities in which the painstaking search for cracks is more than merely suggested to the observer. Being is only a possibility, understanding only a form. Primarily in its self-imposed artificiality, “Alan Greenspangrünspan” likes to combine its real-life models, the important being of a person, more precisely: the important being of man, and an incidental, sleepy-wise natural phenomenon. Due to their attributed continuity and reliability, both convey a false feeling of security and happiness, which doesn’t have to stay that way: not false, not secure, not happy, not just felt. In “Alan Greenspangrünspan", Karner/Samareweerová let the space tell the stories. (Bruno Batinic)

Choreography Karl Karner and Linda Samaraweerová
Dramaturgy Bruno Batinic and Laura Samaraweerová
A coproduction of KASAL and imagetanz/brut Wien
Supported by Kultur Land Steiermark

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opening hours during donaufestival:
Thu 28/4 5.30pm opening and live performance with Karl Karner and Linda Samaraweerová
29 & 30/4 2-8pm