Oasis de la Impunidad

Dance theatre by Marco Layera & Teatro La Re-sentida
Chile

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Venue: Weltkunstzimmer, Glashalle
Ronsdorfer Strasse 77a
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Ticket prices:
Adv. booking 28 Euro, conc. 14 Euro
Box office 32 Euro, conc. 16 Euro
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Duration: 90 min.
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In Spanish and German with German, English and Spanish surtitles
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There are some scenes of self-harm which some audience members might find disturbing. Please note that there will be explicit nudity. The production uses strobe effects.
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Following the performances on 21 and 22 June, an audience discussion with the production team will take place on stage.
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The event is wheelchair accessible.

“Brilliant
and
shocking”
(The New York Times)

What are the origins of violence and what impact does it have? In “Oasis de la Impunidad”, the internationally renowned company La Re-sentida from Santiago de Chile deals with violence inflicted on people by the police apparatus in the context of protests and demonstrations. The inspiration for the creation of the piece was the violent suppression of the mass protests in 2019 in Chile, the “oasis of impunity” – a country with extreme social inequality that has still not come to terms with the Pinochet dictatorship. However, this visually powerful dance theatre points far beyond a single country and asks universal questions about the legitimate and appropriate use of violence in a democracy: How is power transformed into strategies of surveillance and oppression that violate, maim and degrade the human body? What are systemic and individual motivations for the use of violence? Who uses and who controls the state’s monopoly on violence?

“Oasis de la Impunidad” is a precisely choreographed mixture of dance and performance and hardly requires any words. The pantomimic picture theatre unfolds a force in sometimes drastic scenes that is hard to evade. At times the eight performers on stage seem like perfectly synchronised puppets on a string, although it remains unclear who the puppeteer is. The production creates great images that stay with you for a long time: sometimes fantastic, carnivalesque and poetic, sometimes eerie, shocking and painful – but always brilliant.

The Chilean director, actor and author Marco Layera (*1978) founded the company La Re-sentida in 2008 and is its artistic director. The collective is considered an exceptional phenomenon in the Latin American theatre world; its central theme is anger at political abuse and violence in the Chilean homeland. The theatre group’s award-winning productions have already been invited to numerous international festivals.

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The press says:

“Snarling nightmarish images” (Berliner Zeitung).

“The ensemble boldly conquers the terrain of political dance theatre. No one has been that evidently radical in Germany since Johann Kresnik.” (tanz.at)

“At times (…) the piece feels like being caught in a carnival of torture and brutality that deeply disturbs both performers and audience.” (The New York Times)

A production by Teatro La Re-sentida and Münchner Kammerspiele in co-production with Matucana 100 and Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, in cooperation with the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Finance. With the kind support of the Goethe-Institut and the Instituto Cervantes Munich.

 

With Diego Acuña, Nicolás Cancino, Lucas Carter, Mónica Casanueva, Carolina Fredes, Imanol Ibarra, Carolina de la Maza, Pedro Muñoz.

Direction and dramaturgy: Marco Layera
Dramaturgy: Elisa Leroy, Martín Valdés-Stauber
Assistant directors: Humberto Adriano Espinoza, Katherine Maureira
Choreography: Teatro La Re-sentida
Production: Victoria Iglesias
Stage and costume: Sebastián Escalona, Cristian Reyes
Technical direction: Karl Heinz Sateler
Sound design: Andrés Quezada

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