Grace Ellen Barkey / Needcompany / The Residents

Moving between the poetic and the bizarre, slapstick humor and the contradictory depths of the human condition, Grace Ellen Barkey creates visually striking tableaux vivants laced with absurdity. In her latest production ›MUSH-ROOM‹ created in close collaboration with scenographer Lot Lemm, hallucinogenic episodes converge in a surreal autumnal scenario of decaying beauty in which the performers’ ultimate resistance wins the day over melancholia. The music for ›MUSH-ROOM‹ is composed by the American art collective ›The Residents‹ formed in the 1960s and still labeled today as an iconic avant-garde performance pop band known not least for the now-legendary disguises they wear during their concerts.

Choreography, direction, text: Grace Ellen BarkeyConcept: Lemm&BarkeyMusic: The ResidentsCreated by/ performed with: Sung-Im Her, Yumiko Funaya, Benoît Gob, Maarten Seghers, Julien Faure, Mohamed Toukabri, Catherine TravellettiSet & costume design: Lot LemmDramaturgy: Elke JanssensSound: Bart AgaLighting design: Luc SchaltinLight: Marjolein DemeyAssistance: Lemm&Barkey, Lieve MeeussenIntern assistant to the director: Myrto VagiotaProductionmanager: Luc GalleLanguage coach: Helen McNamaraPhotography: Phile Deprez, Maarten Vanden AbeeleMUSH-ROOM manifesto: Stef Lernous

A Needcompany ProductionCoproduction: PACT Zollverein (Essen), Internationales Figurentheater-Festival (Erlangen)With the support of the Flemish authorities.

Touring

27.05.2015, La Filature, Mulhouse Cedex (FR)31.01.2015, Scène Nationale de Sète et du Bassin de Thau, Sète (FR)17.01.2015, KORZO, Den Haag (NL)15.01.2015, CC Brugge, Brügge (BE)06.12.2014, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR)05.12.2014, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR)04.12.2014, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR)05.10.2014, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Korea Performing Arts Center, Seoul (KR)04.10.2014, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Korea PerformingArts Center, Seoul (KR)27.03.2014, Kultuurfaktorij Monty, Antwerpen (BE)26.03.2014, Kultuurfaktorij Monty, Antwerpen (BE)15.03.2014, CC Strombeek, Strombeek (BE)13.03.2014, Vooruit, Gent (BE)12.03.2014, Vooruit, Gent (BE)06.03.2014, CC De Velinx, Tongeren (BE)30.10.2013, Theater in Bewegung, Jena (DE)04.08.2013, ImPulsTanz, Wien (AT)03.08.2013, ImPulsTanz, Wien (AT)02.08.2013, ImPulsTanz, Wien (AT)26.06.2013, Malta Festival, Poznan (PL)25.06.2013, Malta Festival, Poznan (PL)28.05.2013, STUK Kunstencentrum, Löwen (BE)27.05.2013, STUK Kunstencentrum, Löwen (BE)24.05.2013, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)10.05.2013, Internationales Figurentheater-Festival, Erlangen (DE)21.04.2013, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)20.04.2013, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)19.04.2013, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)09.04.2013, SPILL Festival, London (GB)05.04.2013, Dansens Hus, Stockholm (SE)04.04.2013, Dansens Hus, Stockholm (SE)23.03.2013, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)22.03.2013, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)