 | Antonia Baehr (D)
Laughter
Tickets | 60% performance
29% composition
11% phrenic
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An unusual self-portrait. For her birthday, Antonia Baehr asked her friends to give her scores of her own laughter, using them as a basis for her work. “Laughter” is an expedition, a composition of very different types of laughter, a comparison of laughter including a bid to set a record in gales of laughter and a laughter record. A mixture of experimental set-up, lecture, but also very physical performance, that, although based upon a self-portrait, quickly questions the phenomenon of laughter as an individual, unique distinguishing characteristic.
In her works, the choreographer, director and performer Antonia Baehr explores the live character of theatre from ever new angles, fascinated by the conventions of the fourth wall. Her performances revolve around constructions of personality in general, but above all around the question of male and female identity which she seeks to merge or even annul.
In “Laughter” she explores laughter as an independent form of expression, detached from all punch lines, circumstances and other causes. Instead she focuses on the object itself: sound and form, music, choreography, rhythm and gesture. Her aim, however, is not humour, but laughter is, as we know, a social practice whose collective effect is hard to avoid.
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Laughter Workshop
Antonia Baehr (D) 
Produced by make up productions
Co-produced by Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers & Les Subsistances (Lyon)
With support from Kulturverwaltung des Landes Berlin und Ausland (Berlin)
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Austrian Première
Fri 02/10 &
Sat 03/10, 9.30 pm
70’
Talk following
the second performance
EUR 16 / EUR 10
Dom im Berg
Concept, Interpretation, Composition & Choreography Antonia Baehr
Scores by Naima Akkar, Lindy Annis, Bettina von Arnim,
Antonia Baehr, Ulrich Baehr, Frieder Butzmann, Valérie Castan, Manuel Coursin, Nicole Dembélé, Nathan Fuhr, Sylvie Garot, Frédéric Gies, Christian Kesten, Heather Kravas, Antonija Livingstone, Andrea Neumann, Stefan Pente, Isabell Spengler, Steffi Weismann, William Wheeler, Henry Wilt et al.
Artistic collaboration & Choreography Valérie Castan
Dramaturgy Lindy Annis
Sound design & Composition Manuel Coursin
Light design Sylvie Garot
Sound direction Samuel Pajand
Light direction & Technical direction Rima Ben Brahim
Administration Ulrike Melzwig & Alexandra Wellensiek
Production Graz Kirsten Patent
Austrian Première
Fri 02/10 &
Sat 03/10, 9.30 pm
70’
Talk following
the second performance
EUR 16 / EUR 10
Dom im BergConcept, Interpretation, Composition & Choreography Antonia Baehr
Scores by Naima Akkar, Lindy Annis, Bettina von Arnim,
Antonia Baehr, Ulrich Baehr, Frieder Butzmann, Valérie Castan, Manuel Coursin, Nicole Dembélé, Nathan Fuhr, Sylvie Garot, Frédéric Gies, Christian Kesten, Heather Kravas, Antonija Livingstone, Andrea Neumann, Stefan Pente, Isabell Spengler, Steffi Weismann, William Wheeler, Henry Wilt et al.
Artistic collaboration & Choreography Valérie Castan
Dramaturgy Lindy Annis
Sound design & Composition Manuel Coursin
Light design Sylvie Garot
Sound direction Samuel Pajand
Light direction & Technical direction Rima Ben Brahim
Administration Ulrike Melzwig & Alexandra Wellensiek
Production Graz Kirsten Patent
