"Performing Transformation:
Theatre and Social Change"
Katja Wischniewski – "Performing Transformation: Theater, Healing, and Social Change
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Sisyphos plus
Butoh Performance - The Weight of the World - A poetic and political Butoh performance. Through embodied movement and poetic imagery, SISYPHOS PLUS explores the tension between individual struggle and collective responsibility.
Duration: 20 min
The Weight of the World
- A poetic and political Butoh performance
A body. A stone. The weight of the world.
A performer carries a stone. She pushes it, holds it, tries to put it down.
The stone becomes a metaphor for the burdens we carry:
global crises, endless news, collective responsibility and the contradictions of our time.
Like Sisyphos, she begins again and again. But something shifts. Her relationship to the stone changes. What if the burden does not have to be carried alone?
In a physical transformation, she encounters Baubo - a mythical figure whose irreverent, embodied laughter disrupts the seriousness of the world. Her laughter becomes an act of resistance, vitality and liberation.
Through Butoh, embodied movement and poetic imagery, SISYPHOS PLUS explores the tension between individual struggle and collective responsibility.
Direction: Tiziana Longo.
Artistic form: Butoh
Premiere: 24. April 2026, Salon Dreiklang Berlin
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Performance: Katja Wischniewski, Regie: Tiziana Longo, Musik: Meni Gross
Performance
Katja Wischniewski
Regie
Tiziana Longo
Musik
Meni Gross
The Weight of the World
- A poetic and political Butoh performance
A body. A stone. The weight of the world.
A performer carries a stone. She pushes it, holds it, tries to put it down.
The stone becomes a metaphor for the burdens we carry:
global crises, endless news, collective responsibility and the contradictions of our time.
Like Sisyphos, she begins again and again. But something shifts. Her relationship to the stone changes. What if the burden does not have to be carried alone?
In a physical transformation, she encounters Baubo - a mythical figure whose irreverent, embodied laughter disrupts the seriousness of the world. Her laughter becomes an act of resistance, vitality and liberation.
Through Butoh, embodied movement and poetic imagery, SISYPHOS PLUS explores the tension between individual struggle and collective responsibility.
Direction: Tiziana Longo.
Artistic form: Butoh
