Lake Life
Performance by Kate McIntosh
Lake Life
Performance by Kate McIntosh
“Lake Life” is a piece of science fiction fantasy that takes place in a spectacular dream world. Here, any kind of transformation seems possible, and the delineations of what it means to be human are expanded. Explicitly curated for a multi-generational audience, Kate McIntosh’s immersive performance stages its Berlin premiere at Radialsystem in mid-February. Through guided encounters, audiences blur the line between the imaginary and the real, celebrating the power of imagination and altered self-awareness, and carving out space for playful reinvention.
Building on the success of her participatory works “Worktable” and “In Many Hands”, McIntosh has created another immersive and interactive environment. Using the space onstage, audiences of varying ages are invited to embark on a journey of discovery. The space encourages continuous self-reflection and fosters a change in perception of oneself and others. The performance offers a platform for a wide range of encounters and interactions between different age groups—adults and young people—who want to explore their world. Adults who are are not accompanied by young people are just as welcome as any young person from age 10 and up.
Radialsystem presents “Lake Life” as part of the programme series Conjunctions—Acts of being in relation, which is dedicated to the poetry of "being in relation”.
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A SPIN (Brussels) production, in co-production with kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), BRONKS (Brussels), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Viernulvier Kunstencentrum (Ghent), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Festival d'Automne à Paris (Paris), T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers Centre Dramatique National (Gennevilliers), MDT (Stockholm), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), SCHÄXPIR Festival (Linz), figuren. theatre.festival (Erlangen) and Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto).
Supported by Vlaamse Gemeenschaps-commissie (VGC). Residency GC Pianofabriek (Brussels), associated production L'Amicale (Lille). Thanks to Hans Bryssinck, Diederik Peeters, Laura Deschepper, Anna Rispoli, Marnie Slater, Caroline Daish, Britt Hatzius, Sheena McGrandles, Barbara Greiner and Frida Laux. Special thanks to all the listeners who helped us, to Sabine Zahn and Joshua Rutter for the loan of the practice ‘Ghost Head’ from the Unwritten Library.
As part of ‘Conjunctions - Acts of being in relation’. The series ‘Conjunctions - Acts of being in relation’ is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of the open funding programme. With the support of the Radial Foundation.
Media partnerships: taz - die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, The Berliner, Rausgegangen and radio3.
“Lake Life” is draws on elements of the science fiction character Odo and the species of Changeling that appear in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 – 1999), which is based on Gene Roddenberry's “Star Trek”. It was developed by Rick Berman and Michael Piller at the request of Brandon Tartikoff and produced by Paramount Pictures. “Lake Life” is fan fiction and intended for non-commercial purposes only. All rights to the original story of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are owned by Paramount.
In German and English.
The performance is not suitable for young people under the age of 10. In exceptions, an adult must be present. The performance is participatory with slight physical contact with other people.
With Conjunctions - Acts of being in relation, a new programme series dedicated to the poetry of “being in relation” launches at Radialsystem in July 2024. Audiences are invited to experience choreographic and musical practices as embodied strategies of knowledge production and transmission over four acts, each with a different thematic emphasis. The separation between body and mind, the dualism of thought and action, and the notion of a universality of knowledge are contrasted with a variety of possibilities of knowledge production that arise with and from the reality of differently situated bodies.
Reflections on how embodied practices can create temporary communities are centred, as well as which power relations become visible in this process, and which new imaginative sphere and emancipatory strategies result from embodied relationships. In addition to immersive performances, concerts and choreographic works, our exchange format Embodied Practices continues parallel to the new series, and collectively explores forms of preserving and transmitting corporeal practices from different cultural contexts.
Radialsystem
Holzmarktstraße 3310243 Berlin
16 Euro ermäßigt 12 Euro
Für alle Altersgruppen ab 10 Jahren
Dauer ca. 90 Minuten
From 10 years