Disabled Theater

Theater HORA (CH) / Jérôme Bel (FR)

Identity emerges through demarcation and the timid definition of the other, who remains foreign and somehow threatening. And so, persons with mental disabilities have rarely been a part of our social discourse, they mostly remain invisible, and if they do manage to come into view, then please, only within the appropriate framework.
For many years, the Swiss Theater HORA, with its disabled actors, has been taking the space and the right to be as visible as they themselves want to be. In collaboration with the French choreographer Jérôme Bel – a key player in contemporary conceptual dance – they have produced one of the most successful independent theater productions of recent years with their “Disabled Theater” – and the evidence for how much these performers, with their special presence, can enrich the theater.

In a society that defines itself as normal, mental disability has to a large extent been considered the radical opposite of intellectual astuteness and sophistication. Bel shifts these mechanisms to the center of our attention, clearly pointing to our blind spots. Playfully and full of self-consciousness, “Disabled Theater” opens up a space in which disability is neither excluded from artistic and discursive practices nor hidden under the cloak of political correctness. Theater HORA and Jérôme Bel touchingly and comically highlight the dynamics of an ostracism that pushes to the sidelines anyone considered unproductive.

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FRIDAY 28 JUNE 07:00 PM Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
Language Schweizerdeutsch & EN Ringlokschuppen: Saal
SATURDAY 29 JUNe 07:00 PM Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
Language Schweizerdeutsch & EN Ringlokschuppen: Saal

Duration 90 Min

www.hora.ch
www.jeromebel.fr

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Concept: Jérôme Bel
By and with: Remo Beuggert, Gianni Blumer, Damian Bright, Matthias Brücker, Matthias Grandjean, Julia Häusermann, Sara Hess, Miranda Hossle, Peter Keller, Lorraine Meier, Tiziana Pagliaro
Assistance and translation: Simone Truong / Chris Weinheimer
Dramaturgy: Marcel Bugiel
Production management: Ketty Ghnassia
Artistic direction Theater HORA: Michael Elber
Management apprenticeship Theater HORA: Urs Beeler
Main conduction Theater HORA: Giancarlo Marinucci
Production, tour scheduling: Theater HORA – Stiftung Züriwerk (Zürich)

A coprodution by Theater HORA, R.B. Jérôme Bel, Festival AUAWIRLEBEN Bern, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brüssel, dOCUMENTA(13), Festival d’Avignon, Ruhrtriennale, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou Paris, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin.
Funded by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Pro Helvetia, Stiftung Denk an Mich, Ernst Göhner Stiftung.

This guest performance is funded by Pro Helvetia.

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