Shows

Orlando Trip

A Cinematic Concert by Fox On Ice │ Austria

Start Date: 09-06-2023 - 21:00
End Date: 09-06-2023 - 08:00

Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies
9 June, 21:00

Orlando Trip
by Fox on Ice (Anna Luca Poloni, Christian Mair)

ORLANDO TRIP is a cinematic concert about the Orlando myth: It centres on the journey of a young man who is appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, crosses the Mediterranean twice and finally returns as a woman. This story is told live in twelve songs based on lyrics by Anna Luca Poloni and narrative interludes. Video clips with scenic associations accompany the concert. Ariost's Orlando Furioso and Virginia Woolf's Orlando are godfathers. A sea story. A triumph of the unconscious and the phenomenon of fluidity.

Sea change, that's what William Shakespeare calls fundamental changes and provides the central metaphor of the sea at the same time: The seemingly secure order of sea and land, art and nature, home and foreign, man and woman, conscious and unconscious, life and death is abolished. In the midst of an era that elevates rigid boundaries to an omnipresent principle, ORLANDO TRIP sets a poetic counterpoint.

ORLANDO TRIP is sleek and opulent at the same time, and through its musical and cinematic storytelling, provides an international audience with sensory access to an iconic myth about metamorphosis, fluidity, crossing borders along the central metaphor of the sea.

Duration: 75’
Language: English
Surtitles: Greek

A Tribute to Ludovico Ariosto & Virginia Woolf:
Orlando Trip
by Fox on Ice

Fox On Ice:
Lyrics & Performance: Anna Luca Poloni
Music & Visuals: Christian Mair

ORLANDO TRIP is performed by Fox On Ice (composer/filmmaker Christian Mair and singer/author Anna Luca Poloni), produced by the Austrian theatre wortwiege and accompanied by cultural scientist Wolfgang Müller-Funk (University of Vienna) and theatre maker Anna Maria Krassnigg (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).

Univ. Prof. Anna Maria Krassnigg is a theatre producer and author. Numerous productions for Staatstheater Braunschweig, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Schauspiel Dortmund, Theaterhaus Gessner Allee Zurich, Grand Théâtre Luxemburg, Schauspielhaus Wien, Theater in der Josefstadt, Festspiele Reichenau, Wiener Festwochen, among others. Developed numerous inter-creative events in the field of performing arts. University professor for directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna. As a writer and performer she uses her Italian name Anna Luca Poloni. Founder and artistic director of wortwiege.

Christian Mair is a composer, musician, visual designer, theatre and film producer. Artistic works at the Schauspielhaus Vienna, Theater in der Josefstadt Vienna, Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Grand Théâtre Luxembourg, Capucin Theatre Luxembourg, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Festspiele Reichenau, Schauspiel Dortmund, Metro Kinokulturhaus Vienna, Capital of Culture Linz09, Wiener Festwochen. Founder and managing director of wortwiege.

Fox On Ice is the label under which Anna Luca Poloni and Christian Mair operate in their joint artistic work between literature, music and performance.

wortwiege is a theatre company and theatre festival which stands for contemporary dramatic storytelling and the commitment to a writer’s theatre. wortwiege works on material from antiquity to the present. The individual theatre cycles are accompanied by a top-class programme of literature and science in public discourse.

SEA CHANGE is the name of the international framework that has been growing since 2021 with the support of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Austrian cultural forums and embassies and involves partners in arts and sciences, theatres, festivals and universities worldwide. The central questions of ORLANDO TRIP are addressed in the SEA CHANGE Framework in an international and interdisciplinary way. They focus on paradigm shifts in the context of "Female Empowerment", "Mortality and Divinity", "Home and Foreignness", "Fluidity versus Binarity", "Reconciling of Nature and Culture". As a satellite of the cinematic concert, a Salon is offered as a contemporary update of a genuine Viennese dialogue format, where local guests present and discuss their narratives and visions on the above topics. The main language of the project is English with multilingual, local parts. Selected international contributions from the arts and sciences will be included in the SEA CHANGE Collection of the festival Europa in Szene at Kasematten Wiener Neustadt from autumn 2023.