"Substitute Show" at imagetanz in Vienna

"Substitute Show" - a new piece by Radek Hewelt

The premiere of Substitute Show will take place on 18 March 2013 at 20:00 in brut/Konzerthaus in Vienna. The performance will be shown also on 19 March at 20:00 in the same location. Both shows will be presented within imagetanz festival.

 photo: Łukasz Unterschuetz                                       

In Substitute show, Polish performer Radek Hewelt embarks on a personal journey back in time into his past and ends up in communist Poland. The political and economic crisis has a tight grip on the country, but the young man’s ardent wish to found a punk band is stronger. The only problem: an electric guitar is neither to be found nor affordable. Necessity is the mother of invention, so a tennis racket is simply converted into an instrument which magical sounds can be charmed out of. Twenty five years later, again in crisis-torn times, Radek Hewelt remembers such almost forgotten skills – not to make a guitar this time, but to create a performance.

Concept and performance: Radek Hewelt  
Dramaturgical advice: Filip Szatarski

A-co-production of imagetanz/brut Wien and Visitores – Association for the projection of artistic ideas. The work came into being as part of the project Europe in Motion. A work-in-progress was presented at the Springdance Festival 2012 in Utrecht (Netherlands) and in Teatr w Oknie in Gdansk (Poland).

Links:
http://www.brut-wien.at/programm/detail/876/en/
https://www.wien.gv.at/vadb/internet/AdvPrSrv.asp?Layout=VAErgebnis_neu&Type=K&ID=324509&return=