Schedule - Deutsche Oper Berlin
![Shall I build a dam? - © DOB Eine Impression aus SHALL I BUILD A DAM: Ein Cello hängt im Bühnenboden. Auf dem Boden, in der Technik Schläuche.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2F9%2F2%2Ff%2F0%2F2%2Fpic_1718888268_92f02d5e385a5411ebdb219b0b50e083.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Kai Kobayashi: Shall I Build a Dam? - © Kamera: Jakob Böttcher / Schnitt: Ruth Tromboukis Dieses Bild ist das Startbild zum Kurzteaser. Auf einem Tisch liegt ein großer Eisblock.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2F9%2F2%2Fa%2F3%2F0%2Fpic_1717749549_92a302b85bf717509804f616ae6b2886.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz Am Boden Schatten wie von Jalousien und ein Eisblock. Daneben die Silhouette eines Akteurs.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2F7%2Ff%2F7%2F9%2Fb%2Fpic_1718973615_7f79bc46c7df22ed36b77b73a342948d.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz Am Boden Schatten wie von Jalousien und ein Eisblock. Daneben die Silhouette eines Akteurs.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2F3%2F3%2F6%2F4%2Fe%2Fpic_1718973618_3364e35b4927e0a8bc05ef9c432cb674.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz Ein Eisblock, angestrahlt in den Farben des Regenbogens.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2F9%2F4%2Fd%2Ff%2F0%2Fpic_1718973622_94df030f0923bc5223dc963102ee4cd1.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz In der Mitte ein geöffneter Flügel, darum die Darsteller*innen. Im Hintergrund einige Instrumentalisten.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2Fa%2Fa%2F7%2F0%2F0%2Fpic_1718973625_aa70083421da08415430e21f1123cbb8.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz Schläuche im Bühnenraum und ein Eiskubus bilden das Bühnenbild. Darin Darsteller*innen.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2Ff%2Fd%2F8%2F4%2Ff%2Fpic_1718973628_fd84f2c1530756adf738602757d3b3da.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz Am Flügel steht eine Darstellerin.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2Fb%2F4%2Fc%2F9%2F8%2Fpic_1718973632_b4c98717c893939c4bdfa644d0a51783.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz Eine Bratschistin und ein Kontrabass-Klarinettist im Bühnenbild aus Schläuchen und Nebel.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2Fd%2F9%2F1%2F0%2F2%2Fpic_1718973636_d9102847cb424307d3c548b088fcba72.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz Eine Bratschistin und ein Darsteller am Eisblock](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2F1%2Ff%2F8%2F9%2F7%2Fpic_1718973639_1f897e2dabf3d70d90fb65bc1459c3f4.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
![Shall I build a dam? - © Marcus Lieberenz Ein Instrumentalist mit Kontrabass-Klarinette und eine Darstellerin.](https://imgtoolkit.culturebase.org?color=535353&quality=9&ar_method=rescaleIn&ar_ratio=1.33&format=jpg&file=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.culturebase.org%2Fc%2F4%2F0%2F8%2Fe%2Fpic_1718973643_c408e53d95256c8e6d891829555388eb.jpeg&do=rescaleIn&width=1235&height=600)
Shall I Build a Dam?
Kai Kobayashi [*1991]
Music theatre by Kai Kobayashi, Simone Aughterlony and Joseph Wegmann
World premiere on 1 June 2024 as part of the Munich Biennale
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 21 June 2024 in the Tischlerei
approx. 85 minutes / no interval
- Composer
- Direction, choreography, stage, costume
- Stage, costume, lightJoseph Wegmann
- Co-operation stageAslı Ersüzer-Sökmen
- Co-operation costumeLenna Stam
- Dramaturgy
- With
- Artistic Director KNMThomas Bruns
- Contrabass clarinetTheo Nabicht
- TromboneMatthias Jann
- PianoJustine Eckhaut
- AccordionChristine Paté
- ViolaKirstin Maria Pientka
- Premiere21202420:00JunFri€ 20,00 / concs.* € 10,00
- Repertoire22202420:00JunSat€ 20,00 / concs.* € 10,00
- Repertoire27202420:00JunThu€ 20,00 / concs.* € 10,00
- Repertoire28202420:00JunFri€ 20,00 / concs.* € 10,00
- Repertoire29202420:00JunSat€ 20,00 / concs.* € 10,00
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A co-production of the Munich Biennale and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Composition and libretto commissioned by the City of Munich for the Munich Biennale
- Composer
- Direction, choreography, stage, costume
- Stage, costume, lightJoseph Wegmann
- Co-operation stageAslı Ersüzer-Sökmen
- Co-operation costumeLenna Stam
- Dramaturgy
- With
- Artistic Director KNMThomas Bruns
- Contrabass clarinetTheo Nabicht
- TromboneMatthias Jann
- PianoJustine Eckhaut
- AccordionChristine Paté
- ViolaKirstin Maria Pientka
Without water, life would not be possible; it is the prerequisite for our bodies to develop, thrive, grow and survive. At the same time, water is in a constant state of flux, symbolising exchange and transformation - in various states of aggregation and constantly taking on different forms, flowing through different bodies and connecting them with one another. Water stands for intimacy and closeness and at the same time has the cosmological dimension of the element that relates all life on this earth to one another.
Following on from this, SHALL I BUILD A DAM? explores ways of relating bodies, sounds, texts and movements from a post-human feminist perspective in order to arrive at a form of interaction and community that explores possibilities beyond an anthropocentric perspective with its traditional subject-object relations. Things will be in flux, influencing each other, absorbing each other and relating to each other. It is about guilt and complicity, theft and gift, poetry and politics, viscosity, solidification, evaporation and flowing away.
SHALL I BUILD A DAM? is the first time that composer Kai Kobayashi, who has worked intensively with music theatre for many years, has collaborated with choreographer and performer Simone Aughterlony and lighting designer and set designer Joseph Wegmann. With this project, the Deutsche Oper Berlin is also continuing its successful cooperation with the Munich Biennale, with whom this piece is being created as a project in which developments and transformations become visible and audible as a spatial process, in line with the Biennale's festival motto "On the way".