NO LOGO OPERA(TION)
16+ years
Dance Theatre + Live Music
Performers: Ana Mrak, Bruno Isaković, Ina Sladić, Till Frühwald
Opera singers: Kerstin Pohle, Florian Lauss
String quartet: Jasmina Bojić (violine), Katarina Kutnar /Kristina Mrčela (violine), Paola Bralić (cello) and Sara Parađiković (viola)
Concept & Direction & Dramaturgy & choreography: Sanja Tropp Frühwald , Mirjam Schmuck, Fabian Lettow
Text: Fabian Lettow
Music: Damir Šimunović
Video & visual identity: Dragan Đokić
Costume & scene design: Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin
Assistant costume designer: Ana Fucijaš
Graphic design & scene design assistant: Maja Patafta
Light design: Vesna Koralec
Production: Kirsten Möller
Production & direction assistant: Ina Sladić
Postproduction: Marta Klepo
PR: Mia Horvat
Co-production partners: HNK Varaždin, Ciu Varaždin, Domino - Queer Zagreb 2014, Ringlokschuppen Mülheim and Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf.
Photo: Petar Borovec
What is the sound of the world bursting at the seams that hold it together?
Members of the international artistic project No Logo Opera(tion) are trying to find an answer to that question. Sanja Tropp Frühwald, artistic director of the performing arts collective VRUM, together with Mirjam Schmuck and Fabian Lettow from the German kainkollektiv were inspired by a book written by a Canadian author Naomi Klein – ”No Logo”, where she talks about the dark side of the shiny exterior of brands and futility of logos. The ensemble is following traces of people and clothing in globalized undergrounds, no man’s land and ghost cities of the Southeastern Europe. They research the overlapping of seemingly incompatible extremes – from Balkan supermodels and ex textile giant employees to crossdressers attending a post war party in an underground shelter.
No Logo is a (re)constructed ‘‘contemporary baroque opera’’ which ostensibly connects the constructs of time and space and gives names and voices to the nameless and silenced who are in the background of European market exchange of people and goods.
