At the Kampnagel International Summer Festival (10th to 28th August), three world premieres from the fields of dance, musical theater performance and puppet show musicals are on the diverse programme. For the opening, Oona Doherty shows dark, energetic dance on the big stage on August 10th in the world premiere of “Navy Blue”.
The Irish choreographer travels from the Avignon festival, where Doherty made a guest appearance with her work “Lady Magma”, to complete her new piece at Kampnagel. Her first production for the big stage with twelve dancers is a dark reflection on depression and at the same time gives hope – to the piano music by Rachmaninoff and contemporary sounds by British musician and DJ Jamie xx.
The American musician Little Annie processes her life together with other musicians and artists in a musical theater performance – from her time with the punk band Annie and the Asexuals, to working with the dub producer Adrian Sherwood as Annie Anxiety and her marriage to a former police chief to several albums with Anohni.
The premiere of “52 Jokers” will take place on August 11 at Kampnagel as a co-production with the Volkstheater Wien. The show will run there from January 2023. In the third world premiere, the Canadian composer, magician, photographer and puppet maker Josh “Socalled” Dolgin is showing the fourth and final part of his puppet musical “The Season”. Folk, hip-hop, klezmer, funk and global pop merge into a wonderful sound with Dolgin. The premiere will take place on August 19th.
In three weeks, the festival also offers around 50 other dance and performance productions in the Kampnagel Halls, offers its own film program and lectures, invites you to concerts, including in the Elbphilharmonie and in the festival garden. Other highlights include performances by the Australian Back to Back Theatre, which was honored with the Ibsen Prize this year in Oslo – as the first professional group to turn people with disabilities into protagonists and put social attributions to the test. The performers are showing their current play at Kampnagel from August 11th to 13th.
The complete program at: www.kampnagel.de