Weimar-era Berlin finds its way to Rice University
When: May 11, 2018 — May 19, 2018
Where: Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Lois Chiles Studio Theater, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005
Price: $5–35
Tags: #immersivetheatre, #promenade, #sitespecific, #ContentAdvisory, #MobilityAdvisory (see below)
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Dada Gert is an immersive work of dance theater conceived, choreographed, and performed by Annie Arnoult and Open Dance Project. The show is inspired by Valeska Gert (1892–1978), a pioneering Jewish dancer/performance artist/film star in Weimar-era Berlin.
Audiences will be integrated into the performance space by walking throughout the site-specific, multimedia set designed specifically for the Moody’s Lois Chiles Studio Theater.
The new, interactive set designed by Ryan McGettigan, together with music, dance, and costumes, collectively inspired by Gert’s life and performance career, will transport audiences to early 1920s Germany. Open Dance Project’s multi-talented performers embody the raucous performance world of Gert; dancers entice and scold one another through renditions of the latest dance-hall fascination, irreverent jerks and twists, and contorted faces and mimetic gestures. The piece pits Gert’s excessive self-importance against the irreverent playfulness of her Dada counterparts, a conflict of aesthetics which literally comes to blows in a staged battle between the two.
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Contact Level: None
Content Advisories: Mature content, gunfire, recommended for ages 13 and older. Audiences are expected to walk throughout the space.
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