“The night is not just for sleeping,” Gustaf Gründgens said in his 1938 hit. In fact, the night has always been a fascinating thing that also and especially interests young people, says choreographer Chris Hohenester, director of the Young Pathos collective. “You may feel freer and less observed, but at the same time the night is also something in which demons can rise and harass you,” says Hohenester. It is precisely because of this ambivalence that the seven members of their collective chose it as the theme for their new production “Something like Night,” for which they received funding from the Munich Department of Culture.
The premiere is on Thursday, June 20, at an unusual venue, the Space For Skate hall behind the Pathos. “The suggestion came from Pacel, one of the two operators, who asked us if we would like to use the skate hall for our performances,” says Hohenester. In any case, the brothers Pacel and Ali Khachab see the hall as a social meeting place, which, since it opened two years ago, has also been home to art and culture alongside skateboard workshops.
This resulted in an interdisciplinary piece in which the seven performers “slide off the ramps or walk through the hall with their skateboards under their arms as a symbolic briefcase,” says Hohenester. Anyone who is struck by lightning at night could encounter werewolves and goddesses or officials performing a water ballet in this dream performance. “The latter happens to an actor who goes in a dream to look for water for his last surviving plant,” says Hohenester. The entrance to the nightly dream world takes place at 9 p.m.
Something like Night, premiere Thursday, 20 June, 9 p.m.; further dates until Friday, 28 June, Skatehalle in Dachauer Straße 110c, behind the Pathos Theater