Day Ticket - Thursday 15th

A descent into the underworld - and a night of music and celebration.

20:00 Synesthetic Project: Zef

Nika Bauman, Maartje Pasman, Sarah Maria Dragović, Brian Lawlor

Costumes and props by: SALICULA, Ana Marković

On the first day, the audience is immediately immersed into the realm of shadows. The festival is opened by the premiere of a new piece of the Verein’s resident multidisciplinary ensemble Synesthetic Project.

Zef is the newest music theatre piece of the ensemble and it’s artistic director Nika Bauman. At the core of the project lies the ancient story of Persephone—traditionally one of abduction, rape, a grieving mother, and the cyclical return of the seasons. In Zef, these mythic structures are reframed as reflections of today’s female experience. Drawing from mythology, dreams, feminist theory, and autobiographical fragments, the piece intertwines music, movement, and text and portrays a hybrid, old yet new, figure of Persephone. The four performers on stage invite the audience into an underground club and onto a psychedelic, ridiculous and slightly triggering journey through death and back. 

21:30 Festival Opening Party with Brian Lawlor

After the performance, Brian Lawlor takes over for the Festival Opening Party, moving between beats, live instruments, electronics and samples from the Viennese scene.

One evening. Two experiences. The festival begins here.