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tv   Faith Matters  Deutsche Welle  May 4, 2020 12:30pm-1:01pm CEST

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feet. heaven can't exist without help it's the 2 worlds that's what was coming. oh yeah the. come. the berlin radio choir and cooperation with the american theater director and visual artist robert wilson brings luther and behind to the stage. luther dancing with the gods is a production based on martin luther his writings and his biblical translation. buddhists. heigho. was.
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his. mom and fans are global side for you that was always plagued by incredible anxiety from the time when he 1st believed and all that so that makes it so relevant for us . because we also live in a period when everybody is plagued by anxiety and feels threatened he created a new idea in which he believed that faith and trust in jesus christ and the word of god would help him find something to rely on it was so fitting of a song for paul and i think that's a very contemporary issue many people are searching today for somebody something they can still trust on a wall before ptolemy. right wilson trusts his images. their trusted language and translated the bible from greek into trance
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. production plays with luther's language his translations and writings. some of the text sorry cited in the original greek by the actress of the year corny or 2 who is currently the greek culture minister. that the entire creative team is international. it's been out it's not so long i buy from as i've been involved in developing the project from the start and that's why we call ourselves the creative team because we work together and each person contributes ideas which had been developed by it all of course subordinate to the basic idea that bob had and what the ideas inspiring him. with so i'm fired . the old master of images is still full of inspiration and the ideas are perfected step by step. for wilson every movement every posture has
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to be just trying the the. stuff that rests. on the floor. basically it's an enormous jigsaw puzzle that robert wilson is constructing. in all my works i diagrammed them or. put them together mathematically so i can see the total picture quickly and. later we can fill in former content. a crucial element is the lighting. 78 insignia. of the. ship. should go for about that stuff. that's my paternal and i don't want to cover me or
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even a. very good to me light is the most essential element and theater in architecture albert einstein said light is the measure of all things. and without life there's no space a geek. was the water dorian becomes a stage. show it's couldn't get him he creates walks avant in which people meant talented people move and speak or sing well and. others fussed but everything else light sounds props stage set whether it's painted on the floor on the ceiling or round about regardless. should be that a hymn everything is supposed to come together and support it that's how he really
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has his says a. week . was. the. old. adage the. i've been working 50 years and the theatre i've never once ever in 50 years told someone what to think or have i put an interpretation on the work that's . interpretations for the public maybe for philosophers who can think about things
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and i'm. sure. to really turn your. knowledge of what. i believe your view. behind stage is what you might call the laboratory where the singers and actors are dressed and made up to become the figures that robert wilson and his team have imagined. coming from the office when some actors are not able to attend all of the
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rehearsals they're doubles and to appear in full costume. this for instance is lydia khan orders double. was. was. my thing i am sad. is not a psychological non-naturalistic. instead it finds signs and abstract expression for particular experiences developments feelings installations and events so that so long as i never tries to depict a naturalistic or psychological image of a figure. the question is rather what strength did this person at this historical figure her. out of these a few what motivated him what emotions areas development. of human society did he
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influence. and think long and i meant all what influence did he have on the individual. i am for something change us but it was no no one time. when loser refused to retract his theses he was condemned by the pope and eventually bashed i was here rome's accusations and luther's defense at the council of alms are symbolized as a ra a company over contradictory voices. i was here i was i was saying was. it was her it was. god. that. was.
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it 200 years later your hands a bastion box set the reformers texts to music. was. was. it it. is global just it therefore i think the reformation plays a subordinate role. of main focus here is luther king fruit of hope person of color but i think the religious aspects are well represented by the motet. minus the cardboard missing a lot of christian texts spiritual was a fair there the focus is on religion or more than in the scenes which are interspersed me about a 100 i stand in the unseen and. the in the early.
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the singing and acting are rehearsed again and again until they coalesce. the protestant coronas or supplemented by 20th century compositions steve reich's clapping music or instance. the singers on where their gloves at rehearsals. and.
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we've done a lot about productions with choruses but i have to say it's not the radio quiet stock in trade. this is an exception for them it's not their 1st time that it's not but they usually. go around lot of that's like the 1st appearance. then of course all in black.
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it was on the soft him for the whole sicily the space is very interesting with a bond of course the figure of luther as well of the space is very interesting because it isn't a conventional theory. but sailor this is not a picture frame theory it's a very special architect it was clear from the start that it would be staged here so the whole concept was developed with this in mind came from the basic idea is an empty theater that brought the greek element into the production so one thing led to another because. wilson and the choir chose this space deliberately for its unusual shape but also for its a purpose tix. for the p.r. bonus home opened in the spring of 2017 designed by franco gary and built at the back of the don't you open want to berlin 3 opera houses it's the home turf of
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daniel barenboim saeed academy. the berlin radio choir is used to performing in unusual venues with interdisciplinary projects in new york tokyo and other cultural capitals it's earned itself an international reputation the singers are used to performing with large orchestras and famous conductors. time as einstein and a father only are sometimes it's exhausting it demands incredible concentration and it is very new for us because we aren't an opera chorus finish row radio choir will record us that means our forte is concert performance competitions we normally stand behind the orchestra open our scores saying and that's it in this last one gets to this performing especially with a director like bob wilson is an enormous challenge for all of us the.
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sensitivity is required all around. each biased us conical of one side guns canal bias bus somewhere hidden i know that nuclear plants are understands exactly what bob wilson wants she has a fantastic way of rehearsing with us he cautioned radiates an incredible calm. even when we have to repeat some movement 10 times because it's for instance the lighting was incorrect and so we start to lose patience we get when she remains absolutely calm she talks to us very quietly and takes it through the movements who don't smoke might is a big and long i think she knows exactly what the result is supposed to be as they keep the signs all unsigned built. the.
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world. the world on opening night this scene is darker and more subdued than originally planned. in rehearsal it looked like this. the singers were using white balls and the car could have or was red. overnight red and white became black. and jordan slants that had previously been used disappeared. ringback
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for a minor. always trying to achieve a good mix you're not supposed to hear individual voices but here we're more in the realm of musical theater or you could even call it opera in which individuality is a bit more important. sean and disinterested. heisley nars took over as principal conductor and artistic director of the berlin radio choir in august 2015. because this stage is circular he's assistant banco conductor benjamin goods. ringback set in these are for sharing finished their interest and this is does what i find so interesting about this production is that wilson has made
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a very personal selection of texts by law and of images from a contemporary paintings. for a. tight connection and so i see it as an invitation to read and understand more about the period from the right side. r r. r r r. when wilson quotes from the book of revelations he transports us into the apocalyptic visions of the 1st christian century where. rare. very.
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good does it good boy good for me. to really get this can blow and i'm not religious so luther doesn't mean anything to me in that context but he means a lot to me as the man to whom it's together with others we of the modern german language and. the hood think it good for them also the poetry z. we have the mystique of german for them we have a beautiful language. streisand all. the stuff and all. that is ringback there. then there was
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a long form of. this in him. yes that. the feeling wilson strict choreography even in case of the innocent child is reminiscent of the strict choreographer your brother james. this is not a church and so a concert hall. and maybe what i have is. a spiritual feeling maybe the light has and uses something this spiritual but. i hope it's not a religious service religion has no place in the theatre. a
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key scene is luther's death. will seem clearly defines the arrangement of the death bed. in particular the arrangement of the blanket and the precisely determined folding of the sheep have to be practiced by the assistants so that it looks exactly the same at each performance. we know her earlier. it ever hit the exit. that it was.
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a huge knock in so well and i am very fond of him because he is such a loving well he but he's not sloppy he is absolutely precise i think precision and not arbitrary ness is an aspect of every form of hot and believe he could. cheat like. evolution. christians just. leave thanks when performed this death scene takes 12 minutes. it begins with a quotation from luther about children and their innocence joy and purity. i.
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am. was. the editor to. be a. martin luther for me is a point in time and. you have different points and different eras and which change happens and. so i see him as something more abstract but it's a it's a point in time where things have changed their lives
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i mean if. the stylized housewife in the final scene seems to point to luther his wife kateryna. to eat. was a ticket to eat was the edit. the streisand want the sort of. fair sleaze or yes let's start. with the missing that's good food as i get the feeling that it's a typically american characteristic is adding a bit of razzmatazz or. i think wilson wanted to
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slip in a bit of that style and he pulled it off. actually that is simply her in a robert wilson production even the curtain was carnage. strain
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