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Music theatre between myth and memory
In the world of the Aztecs, where the gods were fed by the people, a child is trained to fight in war and give his life to preserve the sun god Huitzilopochtli. Xochiyaoyotl, which translates as “Wars of the Flowers”, recalls the rituals of Aztec martial arts practices, which were wiped out by the Spanish conquest. We can only speculate as to what this fighting technique might have looked like; it served every night to challenge anew the belief in a tomorrow. David Camargo, Amauta García and Maximiliano Soto Mayorga have developed a musical play somewhere between myth and memory, in which music, space and performance emerge from the presence of musical bodies in fighting poses.
Laure-Catherine Beyers, soprano
Johannes Wieners, countertenor
Mathias Lachenmayr & Daan Wilms, percussion
Paula La Loggia Haeni, contrabass clarinet
Johannes Öllinger, electric guitar
Myriam García Fidalgo, cello
Composition: Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga
Stage, costumes and instruments: David Camargo
Libretto, video and dramaturgy: Amauta García
Dramaturgy: Julian Kämper
Duration: about 55 minutes without interval
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Price: EUR 39 (Free seating)
Reductions:
U27 (for all under 27) & Ö1 Intro: 50 % reduction
Ö1 Club & Standard Abo: 10 % reduction
Münchener Biennale
A co-production of Styriarte and the Münchener Biennale, in cooperation with schwere reiter/scope Munich. ‘Xochiyaoyotl’ is the winning project of the OPEN CALL by the Munich Biennale and Styriarte on the theme of ‘Martial Arts’. The production was selected from 85 submissions by an international jury consisting of Carola Bauckholt, Kenny Savelson, Vigdís Jakobsdóttir, Martin Minarik, Sarah Maria Sun and Toshiki Okada.