Premiere of Der Bau by Isabelle Schad and Saša Božić at the Ganz New Festival

After the premiere in Berlin in February at the Uferstudios, Der Bau (The Constuction) by Isabelle Schad and Saša Božić, will be shown for the first time in Zagreb on 17 September at the &TD Theatre, in the framework of the Ganz New Festival. The second performace will follow the next day, on 18 September also at the &TD Theatre.
 
Der Bau was created as a solo in 2012 by the choreographer from Berlin, Isabelle Schad and French artist Laurent Goldring inspired by the eponymous short story by Franz Kafka. Space of the stage is examined as an organ, starting from a description of a den as a metaphor for a body and its organs and fluids.
The group version of Der Bau in Berlin and Zagreb is planed for the season 2013/2014, under the art direction of Saša Božić and Isabelle Schad.
This new piece will continue in the form of a new choreographic perspective of interior/exterior where 70 black bags will be put in the material function to highlight visibility and expand the body into the surrounding space. A group of performers will use material movement to create a kind of spatial journey somewhere in-between paradoxical landscapes, abstract images and moving sculptures.
 
The Zagreb version of Der Bau is a co-production of Isabelle Schad, de facto theatre, ekscena and the Culture of Change of the Zagreb Student Centre with the financial support of the Kultura nova Foundation.
 
(Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag.)