Julian Hetzel

Performing Art

2015 — 2016









THE PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS – OBSTACLE
In the public interventions Hetzel creates a rupture in the accelerated flow of the city life. Please take a look at the interventionspage.


Director: Julian Hetzel
Dramaturg: Miguel Angel Melgares

Movemnet Development: Eva Susova, Miri Lee

Produced by: SPRING Performing Arts Festival Utrecht
With support of: Fonds Podiumkunsten (NL), Gemeente Utrecht, SPACE – Supporting Performing Art Circulation in Europe, South East Dance Brighton through residency and Quadrennial Prague.

Sculpting Fear – Obstacle was part of Between Realities by Platform Scenographyat PQ 2015


Sculpting Fear

Spring Performing arts Festival 2015
in Utrecht


Here we are. We crossed the end. There is an app for everything, for the weather forecast, for the next date, for controlling the pulse, for the way home, for counting the steps. Nobody needs to get lost anymore. Nobody needs to get wet. Nobody needs to be alone. Nobody needs to know. Everything is under control. All data – big or small – are in the cloud. Everything is transparent yet nothing can be seen.
Sculpting Fear consists of two related yet separate parts: a performance (for the stage) and a public intervention (for the streets of a city). Both are complementary elements that tackle different aspects of the matter.

THE PERFORMANCE
We live in a time of scenarios and simulations. In an increasingly complex world we are asking for transparency, for clarification and simplicity. We are afraid of what we don’t know, of what we don’t see. We look away from what is in front of our very eyes since we are facing the black mirror of the screen. It is the fear of the unknown, of the stranger, of the Other, of the future that makes us shiver. In this project Julian Hetzel highlights the dark side of the human condition while his performers explore the physicality of fear
Sculpting Fear is a highly visual piece that uses ephemeral structures in order to give shape to the formless. A starting point for the performance is the omnipresent but invisible data cloud. The concept of the cloud links aspects from religion, technology and nature. Hetzel generates storms and works with weather conditions towards primal fear in a vaporized scenography. Sculpting fear takes the spectator where all colors agree – in the dark.


OBSTACLE
A series of public interventions that create a rupture in the accelerated flow of the city life. They proposes a temporary counter model by creating an interference through standstill. Obstacle is based on a very simple proposition: people lying on the floor.
With a group of about 10 local performers a series of images, body arrangements and compositions are created in the public space. These images are a challenge for the security and the public order since they generates an obstacle within the pulse of functional streets. Idleness, standstill and deliberate collapse are responses to progress, growth and acceleration. Everything is under control.
* IF YOU LIE DOWN YOU CAN’T FALL ANYMORE. A link to a “review” by Nienke Scholts that was written within the framework of Between Realities that is part of Platform Scenography and participated at Prague Quadriennial in June 2015.
http://www.betweenrealities.nl/sculpting-fear-observations-reactionsDirector: Julian Hetzel
Performer: Tomislav Feller,
Miri Lee, Eva Susova, Svetlin Velchev
Dramaturg: Miguel Angel Melgares
Sound design & music: Natalia Dominguez Rangel
Costume design: Gertjan Franciscus
Light Design: Nico de Rooij  
Production Management: Yola Parie
Technical Director: Vincent Beune

Produced by: SPRING Performing Arts Festival Utrecht
With support of: Fonds Podiumkunsten (NL), Gemeente Utrecht, SPACE – Supporting Performing Art Circulation in Europe, South East Dance Brighton through residency and Quadrennial Prague

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