Skarbek

The artists have taken the tale of Starbek, a mythic gnome in Polish miners' folklore, as the starting point for a gestural dance-theater project to premiere in Poland and Germany in 2005. The backdrop of the piece is a stylized, hallucinatory underworld where shifting perspectives create an unstable environment, until, finally, the whole stage shrinks into a marionette theater and puppets replace human dancers. The folio consists text (52 p.) by Niermann Ingo, 52 color reproductions by Antje Majewski, 1 LP of electronic music composed by Katrin Vellrath. Text in English and German.