An Iliad -Trailer

Felix Mathias Ott’s new piece is more than just a recount of ‘The Iliad’ by Homer: Three men are controlling the plot with archaic force and energy, creating Trojan spaces. A choreography of constructing and destroying turns into suggestive imagery and an acoustic and visual landscape, that entices the spectators to face their own desires. Collage-like ‘A Iliad’ is wandering from the current stage to the ancient polity and back to the present, which is unmasked due to its invisible games. Two men on stage, heavy bodies, everyday clothes. Workers not warriors. Ott presents us with two men slaving away in harmony. The men work with axes, cordless screwdrivers, and tools of all types in utter peace and constant symmetry. In all this Ott demonstrates once again his mastery of all theatrical means: light, sound, wind – everything seems to be finely coordinated and precisely applied. Elisabeth Nehring, Deutschlandradio

“Topos (place) seems to be something mighty and difficult to grasp” Aristoteles

Performance by Felix Mathias Ott

Performer: Ante Pavic, Maik Riebort

Artistic advisor: Helga Wretman

Sound: Alex Kassian

Light design: Martin Pilz

Production: Inge Zysk

with special thanks to falko purner

sponsoring: holz possling, baubühne gmbh

Production: Felix Mathias Ott / Co-production: Tanzfabrik Berlin, Student Centre Zagreb (University of Zagreb) – Culture of Change. In the frame of Apap – Performing Europe 2011-2016. With kind support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.