La Strada 2017 – programme folder (EN)

English

28th July – 5th August 2017

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When the streets and squares are stirred into movement, that means La Strada.

So you’ll never lose your way, do get yourself a La Strada Pocket Guide for a handy overview of the programme.

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Contents opening show at the Graz Opera House: Machine de Cirque (CA) .................. 6 nouveau cirque Compagnie Daraomaï (FR) ............ 9 Cirque Aïtal (FR) ................................ 10 d’irque & fien (BE/FR) ...................... 12 street theatre Murmuyo (CL) .................................... 15 Décor Sonore (FR) ............................ 16 Compagnie LE SNOB (FR) ............ 18 GrazGuides (AT) ............................... 20 Eléctrico 28 (AT/ES) ......................... 21 Les Traine-Savates (FR) ................. 22 Joli Vyann & L’Eolienne (GB) ....... 23 puppet theatre Compagnie Monstre(s) (FR) ........ 25 Follow the Rabbit (AT) ................... 26 Studio Dan, KinderKinder, Theater am Ortweinplatz (AT/DE) .............. 27 Theater Asou (AT) ........................... 28 Theater Anna Rampe & Theater Zitadelle (DE) .................... 29 community art Effetto Larsen (IT) ............................. 31 KompleX KapharnaüM (FR) .......... 32 ATSA, When Art takes Action (CA) .......... 33

Kunstlabor Graz & Teatri ODA (AT/XK)............................ 34 Angie Hiesl Produktion (DE) ....... 35 La Fabrique Royale (FR) ................. 36 Compagnie Willi Dorner (AT) ..... 37 La Strada’s “Tribute to the Best” at Lesliehof: Eddie Luis and his Jazz Passengers Studio Dan ........................................... 38 La Strada’s “Open Dance” at Kaiserfeldgasse: La Onda Les Traine-Savates Irina Karamarkovic Band ............... 39 Finale at Auwiese: Compagnie Ilotopie (FR) .............. 40 Preview: Cirque Noël Gravity & Other Myths (AU) The 7 Fingers (CA) .......................... 44 Visitor service ..................................... 47 nouveau cirque

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It is lovely, we have art.

It directs our gaze elsewhere.

Making things visible that are camouflaged by everyday life.

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On location: city For a period of nine days, the heart of the festival pumps movement and inspiration through the city’s streets, filling them with life. Year after year, the festival seeks new challenges, overcoming obstacles together with the audience, in order to keep this enlivening pulse going.

La Strada aspires to more than entertainment and popularity.

La Strada seeks to leave behind indelible marks on both the city and the people. The vision being that all those who get in touch with the festival become part of it, allowing themselves to be taken along by the artist to develop new ideas and thoughts – and this year it’s already for the 20th time.

On the following pages, read all about a programme that harks back to two decades of festival history – to a programme totally in the here and now that deals with topics of our times – to a programme that lets us join the artists in looking into the future, spotting visions of potential.

We wish you a lovely, relaxed but also exciting time at La Strada 2017.

Werner Schrempf / Artistic Director

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Machine de Cirque

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The five exceptional artists of this young, Canadian ensemble are all multi-talented, delivering alongside their artistry plenty of proof of their musical skills. Directed by Vincent Dubé, they create a unique, surreal world.

Fifteen years after the apocalypse, they arrive at their altogether peculiar survival strategy. Their route to salvation is via an absolutely amazing machine – it’s like a spare parts store, and they play masterfully with the parts. Always ready to bare their bodies and soles and make us laugh, move us and overwhelm us.

Opera Graz: 28/7, 29/7, 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8 / 8 pm Recommended from age 5 Tickets: Length: 90‘ (without break) Category 1: € 48 Regular Price / € 42 Reduced Price Category 2: € 42 Regular Price / € 37 Reduced Price Category 3: € 36 Regular Price / € 32 Reduced Price Barrier-free access. € 12 Wheelchair users / € 6 accompanying persons Family package: Our special family package is available at all advance ticket sales points but cannot be booked online.

With the friendly assistance of: 7

nouveau cirque It merges the magic of traditional circus with tackling contemporary topics. It can be loud and captivating but also engaging and breathlessly silent. The La Strada Festival has been sharing its enthusiasm for the new circus for two decades. Long since, Graz has become one of the most important centres of Cirque Nouveau in Europe. And, due to new national subsidy options, this could be developed further, bringing yet more depth rather than drum-rolls to tents, stages and the streets of the city.

Compagnie Daraomaï

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TiraVol French-Catalan artists Agnès Fustagueras and David Soubies take their audience along to a levitating universe brim-full of emotions, in which they celebrate togetherness and differences between man and woman. At, in and on an iron labyrinth, the two artists acrobatically deal with their relationship, embark together on an expedition and celebrate the diversity of sexes. And narrate a moving story between illusion and reality.

Freiheitsplatz: 29/7, 30/7, 31/7 / 7 pm STAINZ: 2/8 / 5 pm Bahnhofspark Free entry!

Length: 40‘

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Pour le meilleur et pour le pire “For better or for worse” is the title of this wonderful production of new circus – and it is on a journey through precisely such circumstances that the acrobatic couple Kati Pikkarainen and Victor Cathala are taking their audience. Balancing, flying through the air, holding onto and lifting each other, the two artists are staging their relationship. Letting the audience partake in the development, tension and rhythm of human togetherness; argument, reconciliation and love in the circus ring. Thus presenting their very own interpretation of contemporary circus: down-to-earth and no glitter – car radios, exhaust gas and wonderful acrobatics included.

From dashing balancing acts to a wild-whirly performance on the see-saw – the French-Finnish couple are pushing the envelope. Beauty and elegance, passion and unfiltered sensitivity are always on top here. — Le Monde, Paris Tent in Augarten: 29/7, 30/7, 31/7, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8 8 pm / Recommended from age 6 Tickets:

Length: 60‘ (without break)

€ 38 Regular Price / € 34 Reduced Price Barrier-free access. € 23 Wheelchair users / € 18 accompanying persons Family package: Our special family package is available at all advance ticket sales points but cannot be booked online.

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d’irque & fien

BE FR

Sol Bémol What would you actually call a group of pianos played by several pianists at the same time? Would that be a piano orchestra? And what would you call it if, in addition, acrobats climb over these pianos, living out their love for music and circus alike? At La Strada it’s called Sol Bémol and is a wonderful production for the whole family that beautifully touches all senses with its impressive stage setting, music and acrobatics.

We all come from somewhere With our luggage packed To live the good life A difficult balance An unexpected harmony Everyone adds their own language Our language is the circus!

— Dirk Van Boxelaere & Fien Van Herwegen, d’irque & fien

Kunsthaus / Elingasse WEIZ: 1/8 / 7 pm Hauptplatz Graz: 3/8 / 5 pm 4/8, 5/8 / 11 am & 5 pm Free entry!

Length: 60‘

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street theatre Over recent decades, La Strada has done pioneering work in the conquest of public space, bringing art projects directly to the people of the city without any barriers. This proximity to both art and the audience at the same time ensures that artists such as Chilean clown Murmuyo develop their projects in Graz, and that artists’ collectives, such as the Styrian-Catalan group ElÊctrico 28, are able to present their work. In this way, an interdisciplinary, omni-faceted festival is created and installations, interaction and musical performances are given the same space as productions in theatres.

Murmuyo

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Three years ago the city fell in love with Murmuyo – and this love is indeed requited. First the Chilean street artist just blithely hitchhiked, bringing traffic to a halt. Then, last year, he looked for friends and found them. And now he wants to build a house; once again, with the help of city folk. Given how the love story between him and Graz inhabitants has developed over recent years, this will be a very special home. starting point at Stadtmuseum / Elingasse WEIZ: 1/8 / 6 pm STAINZ: 2/8 / 6.30 pm starting point at Rathaus starting point at Franziskanerplatz: 3/8, 4/8 / 11 am starting point at Südtirolerplatz: 3/8, 4/8 / 7 pm starting point at MURPARK: 5/8 / 11 am starting point at Südtirolerplatz: 5/8 / 5 pm A coproduction with La Strada Graz.

Free entry!

Length: 50‘

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Décor Sonore

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The Kaleidophones

In a way, the world is like a huge musical composition that’s going on all the time, without a beginning and presumably, without an ending. We can improve it or we can destroy it; we can add more noises or we can add more beautiful sounds.

— Raymond Murray Schafer, Canadian composer and sound scientist You certainly have to adjust to this unusual head dress, which enables the transformation of sounds of the city. However, you will be rewarded with a unique experience that Michel Risse will make audible for his audience. This French audioartist sensitises perception by artificially enhancing our natural hearing. During the La Strada festival, 16 sculptures on the grounds of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz will invite visitors to encounter brand new acoustic experiences and discover unexpected soundscapes.

Kunstuniversität Graz, forecourt of Palais Meran: 29/7, 30/7, 31/7 4 pm to 8 pm Timed tickets Available at Graz Tourismus and at the Ticketzentrum.

Be sure to get your timed ticket for an introduction to the installation and your auditory experience of three sculptures of your choice.

A coproduction with:

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Compagnie LE SNOB

FR

Ulik’s Glisssssssssendo When creatures from another planet seem to float in and conquer the city, classic street performance and modern technology combine to form a new kind of performance. And if this is accompanied by minimal music, the like of which has never been heard before, a magical wind blows through the streets of the city. Music by Philip Glass and Michael Nyman is part of this human-machine synthesis of art.

Karmeliterplatz: 29/7, 30/7 / 9 pm starting point at Kunsthaus Passage STAINZ: 2/8 / 9 pm Schloss Stainz Free entry!

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WEIZ: 1/8 / 9 pm

Length: 45‘

Compagnie LE SNOB

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Fanfare LE SNOB The musicians of Compagnie Le Snob come to the city and take along everybody who can and would like to go for a different rhythm on a summer’s day. The choice is vast: ranging from rock and latin through funk and electro to classical and jazz, that’s the repertoire of these dashing French artists, whom you can’t fail to see in their orange outfits, and certainly can’t fail to hear. You can count on one or two encores at their final performance on Graz’s Hauptplatz square.

MURPARK: 29/7 / 11 am Lendplatz: 29/7 / 5 pm Burggarten: 30/7 / 11 am Volksgarten: 30/7 / 5 pm Hauptplatz: 31/7 / 7 pm Free entry!

Length: 20‘

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GrazGuides

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Stadtgeflüster “Cobbles that mean the world”. Loosely based on Friedrich Schiller’s quote, GrazGuides will take visitors on their journey through the city. They will show detours and hidden paths, tell stories and reveal the odd secret. Experienced city scouts will also bring along curiosity, pleasure in discovery, questioning and having a good laugh. Don‘t forget to bring good shoes and be ready for new things.

27/7, 28/7 / 5 pm Tickets: € 9 entry price 20

Starting point will be stated on tickets.

Length: 120‘

Eléctrico 28

AT ES

Sternstunden der Menschheit This Austrian-Catalan artists’ collective borrows Stefan Zweig’s “Decisive moments of history” in order to deal with the construction of history, i.e. with circumstances that make an event history. In Graz they will identify them in the course of an intensive walk through the city. Together with a small group of visitors, who are equipped with headphones and on the quest for distinctive moments in everyday life.

29/7, 30/7, 31/7 / 4.30 pm & 7 pm Recommended from age 12 A coproduction with La Strada Graz Tickets:

Length: 60‘

€ 12 Regular Price / € 9 Reduced Price Starting point will be stated on tickets.

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Les Traine-Savates

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Coup d’Savate It will be colourful and loud, when the nine gentlemen of Les Traine-Savates set out to conquer the city’s streets: in yellow, orange, red and violet, wearing flares, Elvis kits and Bowie-like costumes, even just visually they’re paying tribute to the legendary 1970s. With their fireworks of brass and funk music, they draw their audience enthusiastically to follow an imaginary mirror ball through town – whilst celebrating a very special party.

Hauptplatz WEIZ: 1/8 / 8 pm STAINZ: 2/8 / 7.30 pm / Mobile Theater starting point at Hauptplatz Tummelplatz: 3/8 / 11 am Eisernes Tor: 4/8 / 11 am Freiheitsplatz: 4/8 / 7 pm Karmeliterplatz: 5/8 / 11 am Free entry!

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Length: 40‘

Joli Vyann & L’Eolienne

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Lance moi en l’air “Throw me into the air” is the title of this production, with which the British artist duo will awaken in its audience the desire to be able to fly for once too. With incredibly strength and yet softness too, with their bodies the artists tell a story about love, trust and interaction. And all of this with subtle aesthetics of flowing transitions, making this dance project a gorgeous experience on one of these balmy summer evenings.

Augarten, near Auschlössl: 29/7, 30/7, 31/7 / 5 pm Free entry!

Length: 25‘

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puppet theatre Puppet theatre connects people in many ways: children with adults, fantasy worlds with contemporary social topics and the audience with artists and their moving stories. It is very important to the La Strada festival to support, co-produce and stage high quality artistic work in this field, thereby contributing to ensuring space for modern fairytales for younger and older people in our times too.

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Compagnie Monstre(s)

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Projet Fantôme Anyone who might sometimes have worried they had forgotten how to marvel can begin again in this magicalmysterious performance by Etienne Saglio and Madeleine Cazenave. Just enjoy and don’t even try to unravel the secret of the phantom – for one thing, it won’t work and, for another, it would be a pity for the beauty of marvelling.

Landhaushof: 2/8, 3/8, 4/8 / 9.30 pm A coproduction of the international streetart-network IN SITU. Free entry!

Length: 25‘

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Follow the Rabbit

AT

Der Fels und der Vogel You can never experience your first premiere too soon. This La Strada co-production offers our youngest festival visitors the chance to do so, and what a chance indeed! The premiere of “Der Fels und der Vogel” [the rock and the bird] talks of the movements of the waves of the sea, about the cycle of nature and the story of an unusual friendship.

Rosenhain recreational area (Aigner-Rolett-Allee, on the banks of the Rosenhain ponds) 29/7, 30/7, 31/7, 1/8, 2/8 / 3 pm & 6 pm Recommended from age 6 A coproduction with La Strada Graz

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Free entry!

Length: 50‘

Studio Dan & KinderKinder & Theater am Ortweinplatz

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Planet Globokar Once a day you have to go upside down in order to see things from the right perspective again. With clarinets played under water and an orchestra like a wild merry-go-round, “Planet Globokar’s” musical laboratory reminds us beautifully and vividly of this wisdom.

Dom im Berg: 1/8, 2/8 / 5 pm / Length: 50‘ / Recommended from age 6 A coproduction with La Strada Graz Tickets: € 22 Regular Price / € 19 Reduced Price / € 15 KNAX-Klub members Barrier-free access. € 8 Wheelchair users / € 4 accompanying persons Family package: The package is available at all advance ticket sales outlets, though it cannot be booked online.

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Theater Asou

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Die Froschkönigin nach Heinz Janisch It isn’t easy for a princess to find that partner for life. Because princes have become rare – and shy too. But when he then appears, disguised as a frog and bringing chaos to life in the castle, even the best-behaved of princesses is finally allowed to do what she really wants. Theater Asou tells the fairy-tale with music, dance and puppet theatre, whilst surprising both old and young in the audience.

Lesliehof in the Joanneumsviertel: 29/7, 30/7, 31/7 / 11 am & 5 pm WEIZ: 1/8 / 5 pm Kunsthaus MURPARK: 2/8 / 4 pm Recommended from age 4 Free entry!

With the friendly assistance of: 28

Length: 60‘

Theater Anna Rampe & Theater Zitadelle

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Schneewittchen Those who believe they know how the story about Snow White and the seven dwarfs goes might easily be terribly wrong. Puppet players Anna Fregin and Daniel Wagner keep finding new and unusual approaches to classic fairytales in their productions and narrate them from a very different point of view. This year they will do it with their latest production, which will have its premiere in Graz. A true pleasure, not only for the little ones.

MURPARK: 31/7 / 4 pm LEIBNITZ: 1/8 / 11 am Schloss Seggau STAINZ: 2/8 / 11 am Rauch-Hof Lesliehof in the Joanneumsviertel: 3/8, 4/8, 5/8 / 11 am & 5 pm Recommended from age 4 Free entry!

Length: 45‘

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community art Together with the inhabitants, artists are reconquering the squares and streets of the city. In community art, the borders between protagonists and the audience blur, stories are developed and told together, people are brought together and the city is viewed and experienced from completely new perspectives.

A festival like La Strada creates the (free) space necessary for such artistic endeavours by enabling residencies and making sure that the entire city can be used as a production space for art.

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Mnemosyne (goddess of memory) What is your favourite place in or around Graz, what colour is it and what memories do you associate with it? Italian artist Matteo Lanfranchi interviewed people from Graz about the places to which they feel some emotional connection and created a map of memories with the results. In the course of the festival, the map will continue to grow and draw a picture of how people and their life paths change the city. Lanfranchi’s installation connects individual memories with the collective memory of a place.

Visitors‘ centre Joanneumsviertel: 29/7, 30/7, 31/7, 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8 from 10 am to 12 pm / from 5 pm to 7 pm / Recommended from age 6 A coproduction of the international streetart-network IN SITU. Free entry!

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KompleX KapharnaüM

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Do Not Clean People have a strange relationship with their rubbish, which combines disgust and attraction with guilt and passion.

French artists’ collective KompleX KapharnaüM makes this relationship strikingly visible. Here people at the margins of society, as well as consumers with a critical attitude towards wastefulness, have their say. Here it becomes clear that too much can be just as stressful as too little. The combination of high-tech and the respectful treatment of people and their history draws an enduringly moving picture of how our society deals with what is left over

Hauptplatz: 30/7, 31/7, 1/8 / 9.15 pm Free entry!

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Length: 75‘

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ATSA, When Art takes Action

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While having Soup Actually, when was it last that the street was a place to talk to each other and discuss things? Really looking at each other whilst talking, no likes or dislikes but accompanied by the will to listen properly to the other person while seeking to understand? The production “While having Soup” from Canada offers a special opportunity that should be seized.

Passers-by can spend 20 minutes discussing with another person a particular topic that currently moves the city and its people, whilst having a plate of soup. And afterwards to sum up in just one sentence what had been the content of their conversation. Truly a challenge – but maybe one that we should go for again some time.

Tummelplatz: 29/7, 30/7, 31/7 / from 4 pm to 8 pm Recommended from age 15 Free entry!

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Kunstlabor Graz / Teatri ODA

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Hin & her. Hüben wie drüben.

The EU centre of art laboratory Graz will be opened at a shop in the city centre of Graz, for the duration of La Strada; a place for thought, a workshop, an exhibition space. Together with a group of young adults, who are just finishing their compulsory schooling in Graz, here questions are asked and thoughts made visible: the topic being “Fortress Europe”. On the basis of Ödön von Horváth’s burlesque “Hin und Her”, artists from Kosovo and Austria will discuss border issues of our times: What are European values? What structure is hidden inside? How does the EU taste, how’s it moving? What do EU-topias look like? And is it really a shop – with opening hours and transparent borders?

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Access to the EU centre: please apply for your personal project pass between 28th July and 5th August at the Kunstlabor Graz office at Jakominiplatz 15, 1st floor, 8010 Graz (office hours: 9 am to 2 pm) or by email to kunstlabor_graz@uni-t.org

Angie Hiesl Produktion

DE

x-mal Mensch Stuhl When people sit on a chair high above the heads of passersby against the wall of a house, cutting vegetables or reading the newspaper, one can rightly be a little confused. And that’s what you should be because Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser dedicate themselves in a very special way to the topic of aging. Old people in our society, caught up in the tensions between architecture and day-to-day urban life, are strikingly positioned. This artistic performance installation captures people’s imagination in a very quiet and subtle, yet all the more powerful way.

From Lendplatz to Griesgasse: 03/08, 04/08, 05/08 / Installation performances from 10 am till 11 am and from 6 pm till 7 pm Free entry!

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Artists in Residence Tryout

La Fabrique Royale

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Zéro Degré Gravity is not really their thing – at least it seems that they don’t really take it that seriously. Fabrique Royale free-runners, who will be developing their latest project during a residency in Graz for several days, will demonstrate on walls and objects of everyday life in the public space that we should not let ourselves be so easily impressed by something as trivial as gravity. In combination with athletics and music, a work of art is being developed, with the first tryouts being shown at La Strada 2017.

Tryout / 29/7, 30/7 A coproduction with the international streetart-network IN SITU.

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Download the La Strada app free from the App Store or Google Play Store and get the place and time of the tryout one day beforehand via push message.

Compagnie Willi Dorner

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every-one In his current production, choreographer Willi Dorner puts the 1920s centre stage. And at the same time asks the question whether, just like back then, we are living once again in a time of rapid developments both behind and ahead. With the stylistic means of the Roaring Twenties and their aesthetic forms of manifestation like synchronised formation dances, Dorner visualises the principle of the serial. He guides visitors through a residential area that they will probably no longer see through the same eyes afterwards.

4/8, 5/8 / 7 pm A coproduction with the international streetart-network IN SITU. Numbered tickets.

Available at Graz Tourismus or Ticketzentrum.

Location will be given on numbered tickets.

Length: 75‘

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La Strada’s Tribute to the Best: Joe Zawinul & Frank Zappa We bow down: through the “Tribute to the Best” series, we want to pay our respects to the real musical greats in a fantastic club atmosphere. We kick off this year with none other than Frank Zappa and Joe Zawinul – doing justice to their work are Studio Dan and Eddie Luis and his Jazz Passengers.

Music is THE BEST — Frank Zappa

Lesliehof: 29/7, 30/7 / entry from 8.30 pm / Live music from 9.30 pm 29/7: Eddie Luis and his Jazz Passengers “Tribute to Young Zawinul” 30/7: Studio Dan “How is your Pony? A tribute to Frank Zappa” Free entry!

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La Strada’s Open Dance La Onda Les Traine-Savates Irina Karamarkovic Band Never miss a chance to dance. Above all when La Strada invites you to tango in the city’s streets and creates the perfect soundtrack of the very finest brass and funk music, along with songs from Kosovo, for you to dance under the stars.

Kaiserfeldgasse: 2/8, 3/8, 4/8 at 7.30 pm DJ-Line / Live music from approx. 9 pm 2/8: DJ Vesna / La Onda “Tangos, Cuban Boleros and Chamames” 3/8: DJ-Line / Les Traine-Savates “Coup d‘Savate” 4/8: DJ Flo / Irina Karamarkovic Band “Songs from Kosovo” Free entry!

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Compagnie Ilotopie

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Fous de Bassin It’s magic when, in the night time under the moonlight, huge figures float over the water, shedding a completely new light on a place everyone thought they had known all along but had never actually seen. Compagnie Ilotopie uses the surface of the water as a stage, lets everyday figures appear magical and sets aglow paddle wheels and small cars as well as babies that still need nappies, hotheads and ladies in large gowns. With this performance in the Auwiesen recreational area by the river Mur, La Strada presents its audience with one of those special productions at the close of the festival that are best enjoyed sitting on the meadow, offering the perfect setting to fall in love: with life, art or the person next to you ...

Finale

Auwiesen recreational area by the river Mur: 5/8 / 9.15 pm The evening box office is open from 8 pm to 9.15 pm. entry from8 pm.

Tickets:

Length: 50‘

€ 20 Regular Price / € 7 children up to age 15 (Reduced Price: € 15 Spark7) We ask you not to bring large backpacks or bags, umbrellas or glass bottles. Such objects are to be handed in before entering the event area.

Snacks and drinks can be bought on site. We recommend buying tickets at the advance sales counters. Check out precise details of how to get there and where to park, along with full information about the shuttle service, from the pocket guide, La Strada app or La Strada homepage www.lastrada.at With the friendly assistance of: 41

Liquid Loft Foreign Tongues

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On location: Europe For 15 years now, the La Strada Festival has been working with national and international artists and its network partners on developing artistic creation in public space. IN SITU is the name of the EU project now at the heart of the two project phases, IN SITU ACT & IN SITU PLATFORM. Together we are working on topics of urban coexistence, developing productions in close cooperation with the community, population and local actors, always in connection with the urban surroundings and architecture of a Europe of the present and of the future.

Together we are building up Graz as a centre of creativity and helping artists to project themselves internationally, like the Austrian group of artists called Liquid Loft, whose project Foreign Tongues was just recently selected as one of the IN SITU pilot projects.

Werner Schrempf / Artistic Director

Further information: www.in-situ.info

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C I R C U S TA L E S I N G R A Z

Over recent years, contemporary circus has become unimaginably multi-faceted – ranging from intimate, intensive performances to involved productions on a grand scale. In order to illustrate this breadth more than ever before, this winter Cirque Noël will be performing in parallel at both of its traditional venues, with two outstanding productions: “Réversible” by the Canadian company The 7 Fingers, a performance of striking strength in which quiet, graceful moments alternate with real adrenaline-rushes, and the wonderfully creative project “A Simple Space” by the Australian company Gravity & Other Myths, an intimate staging that rides on great physicality, plenty of winks and great excitement.

Spoilt for choice – but those wishing to see both productions get a discount and don’t have to choose.

GRAVITY & OTHER MYTHS “A Simple Space” December 18th to 30th 2017 | Orpheum Graz

THE 7 FINGERS “Réversible” December 22nd 2017 to 4th January 2018 | Helmut List Halle

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Tickets & Info Tickets & Information: +43 (0) 316 26 97 89 / ticket@lastrada.at / www.lastrada.at/ticketshop or at the advance ticket sales: Graz Tourismus: Herrengasse 16, 8010 Graz, +43 (0) 316 80 75 0 Ticketzentrum: Kaiser-Josef-Platz 10, 8010 Graz, +43 (0) 316 80 00 oeticket sales offices throughout Austria and www.oeticket.com Kleine Zeitung Ticketing: +43 (0) 316 871 871 11 Reduction: Schoolchildren, students, senior citizens, annual ticket or half-year ticket holders of Holding Graz Linien public transport and season ticket holders of Freizeit Graz GmbH. Special prices are available with valid ID at all advance tickets sales, but cannot be booked online. Ö1 Club-members get 10 % off 2 tickets each.

La Strada family package: Special prices for families are available at all advance tickets sales, but cannot be booked online. www.lastrada.at On the La Strada website you’ll find all productions, performance dates, times and venues as well as ticket information at a glance – also interesting news and background information about La Strada and the IN SITU European network.

Imprint La Strada is an event produced by die ORGANISATION in collaboration with Tourismusverband Graz / Publisher: ARGE La Strada, Opernring 12, 8010 Graz, AUSTRIA © La Strada 2017 / Photos: Press material of the groups, p.18: www.bigshot.at/Christian Jungwirth, p.20: Christian Mueller/ shutterstock.com, p.38: Andrey Armyagov/shutterstock.com / Graphics: Sylvia Zannantonio Design: taska.at / Print: Medienfabrik Graz / Translation: Susanne Baumann-Cox / For readability purposes, no gender-specific terms are used. The masculine form is used generically and fundamentally refers to both genders equally. Subject to change, errors and misprints without notice.

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