about
ZEICHENSTURM / SIGNSTORM is a stage
performance in sign language.
The
piece includes live acts as well as documentary
film, music video, talk show on stage - with simultaneous translation
into spoken German and English and into written language.
The project is initiated by performance maker Michikazu Matsune,
conceptualized together with deaf performers Xiaoshu Alice Hu and
Paulina Sarbinowska and with filmmaker Mischa G. Hendel, joined by the
team.
Press:
"The piece begins with two deaf performers welcoming the
audience in sign language..." Production text
"You see the others, you see yourself. And know that you are part of
this story, and know of the validity claim that permeates this story." corpusweb.net
"It seems afterwards completely absurd, to drag on our
breastweak and exclusionary society of barriers as before." Der Standard (German)
" 'The free scope and space on stage are very large, and you can
make the impossibility into possibility, so to speak' says
Paulina..." dastandard.at (German)
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ZEICHENSTURM
75 minutes
Six performers on stage
Film projection on three screens
Directed and produced by Michikazu Matsune
Co-produced by brut Wien
With support by the Cultrural Department of the City of Vienna
Premiere in February 2011
