After the remarkable online success of the eponymous film during the Corona winter of 2021, laborgras and ensemble CONTINUUM are now bringing “DAS FEST” as a festive gathering to the stage: Baroque music and contemporary dance come together for one evening of exceptional acoustic and visual impressions.

The notion of DAS FEST, of festivity, implies a gathering of many different people who are welcomed into an atmosphere completely unlike their usual day-to-day. Festivity is also always staged. It has its own dynamics, dramaturgy and choreography. And it therefore requires space, time and co-presence. laborgras proposes DAS FEST as a meeting of baroque music and contemporary dance. Dancers and musicians are host to a new interpretation of the selected compositions, in the here and now. The festive music is translated into a choreographic concert and the audience is invited to an evening full of surprising impressions revealing a new bodily form of the early music.

Artistic direction: laborgras (Renate Graziadei & Arthur Stäldi)
Artistic Collaboration: Barbara Weigel
Choreography: laborgras in collaboration with the dancers Tian Gao (2020), Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (2020), Arianna Rodeghiero (2022), Abraham Iglesias Rodriguez (2022), Sergey Zhukov (2020/2022), Sara Koluchova (2022)
Dance: Arianna Rodeghiero, Abraham Iglesias Rodriguez, Sergey Zhukov, Renate Graziadei, Sara Koluchova
Dramaturgy: Arthur Stäldi
Musical Direction: Elina Albach
Music: Ensemble Continuum
Violin: Nadja Zwiener, Rahel Mai
Viola da Gamba: Liam Byrne
Violone: Christine Sticher
Harpsichord: Elina Albach
Technical Direction stage and lighting: Emma Juliard
Costume Design: Claudia Janitschek
Production Management: Inge Zysk, Raquel Moreira
Press and Public Relation: k3 berlin – Kontor für Kultur und Kommunikation
Pictures: Phil Dera
Design: Mia Sedding
Works by: Arcangelo Corelli, Georg Friedrich Händel, Giuseppe Torelli