KIPPUNKT

Theater Titanick & bodytalk

KIPPPUNKT is an allegory of the climate crisis. Not didactic, but amazing. Not abstract, but so absurdly tangible that everyone can identify with it.
It is set in the middle of the city, between ice floes and mountain peaks. A party is making its way up the mountain to celebrate a wedding. Everything may be out of control, but humans, being creatures of habit, like to stick to rituals. But the wedding-mad people have not reckoned with the storm, the snow and all sorts of other quirks of the elements. There is much life in the old mountain. Perhaps it is time to rethink not only our relationship with nature, but with humanity in general.

In KIPPPUNKT, dance with depth meets grand visual theatre to address a question of elemental urgency: What if nature strikes back? Ever since Hitchcock made his “birds” fly to attack, people have had the unsettling feeling that they are at the mercy of the forces of their environment – and since then we have not been more careful with the planet…

The production finds its own language for a phenomenon that is much discussed but still not fully understood. With the astonishing theatre machinery of Titanick and the astute body art of bodytalk, the audience is drawn into a world where everything is on the brink.