Phantasmagoria
Stephanie Felber
Dance & Sound Performance / 3D Audio / June 22, 2024
PHANTASMAGORIA explores the realm of phantoms, hallucinatory apparitions, and auditory and visual illusions that convey a phantasmatic presence and play with perception. Deceptive occurrences open the space for personal imagination. The movements of the performers generate a 360° soundscape that leads the audience into a kind of liminal space, transforming the theater into a mystical place enveloped in mist and seductive sounds, creating a sound choreography. Body-forms appear and disappear. The real and the fictional merge. The audience, situated in the midst of the action, is guided into a labyrinth of sensory illusions. PHANTASMAGORIA oscillates between the audible and the inaudible, the visible and the invisible, being both fact and deception at once.
Artistic Direction: Stephanie Felber
In collaboration with the performers
Daniela Graça Schankula, Ludger Lamers, João Santiago, Irfan Taufik
Composition & Sound Installation: Stratos Bichakis
Lighting Design: Lennart Rabe
Project Management/Dramaturgy: Julia Opitz
Mentor: Michael Akstaller
PR: Beate Zeller
Duration: approx. 90 minutes / use of strobe lighting
Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Munich, the Performing Arts Fund with resources from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. In cooperation with schwere reiter tanz, Munich / Z-Bau, Center for Contemporary Culture, Nuremberg / ZiMMT, Leipzig. Stephanie Felber is a member of Tanztendenz München e.V.
The performance on April 29, 2024 – combined with a workshop – is supported by BLZT, Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance, with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art, the City of Nuremberg, Department of Culture, and the Art and Culture Foundation Nürnberger Nachrichten.