SEANAPS FESTIVAL 2024 PRESENTS: HIT
GRETA GRANDERATH (HAMBURG)
The feminist concert performance HIT explores and demonstrates the power, virtuosity, sloppiness and tenderness of musical instruments and tools.
Drumbeat, axe strike, impact, outcry, pillow thump, hammer blow, drumroll – and the silence that follows. HIT explores punching and softness, skills and sloppiness in the use of musical instruments and tools. The concert performance weaves together compositions for a singing drum kit, axe, wood, and voice with verses from the ancient poet Sappho and Iannis Xenakis' PSAPPHA for solo percussion.
Theatre maker Greta Granderath pursues collaborative, feminist working methods and aesthetics in her performances, playing with genre boundaries and formats. She developed the concert performance HIT in collaboration with three artists: percussionist and composer Ying-Hsueh Chen, who works in classical and experimental music; performer and DIY drummer Carrie McILwain, active in indie and post-punk bands; and theatre maker and performer Juliana Oliveira, who founded the silent rock band FrontMan and has been exploring wood chopping as a gesture coded as masculine in her research AXT since 2018.
HIT is based on Greta Granderath's research project THE ART OF HITTING THINGS (2020), which involved drummers from punk, pop, jazz, and classical music, addressing the fact that the drum kit is the instrument least commonly played by women* in these genres. After its acclaimed premiere at Hamburg’s industrial monument Kraftwerk Bille in 2022, HIT is now being presented in a stage version for the first time at the SEANAPS Festival at LOFFT.
*To date, reports and studies in the music field primarily address the categories of men
Festival opening on Thu. 19.09.2024
Christoph Rothmeier plays drumset, drum computer, synthesizer, trumpet and sings. Jörg Hochapfel plays keyboards, melodica, tambourine and sings. Often they play music together without playing together, or they invent cruel musical rules for themselves. Sometimes this results in tightly knit songs, although with a significant blurriness. And sometimes it results in terrible accidents - these are unavoidable, but welcome, while still being terrible accidents. Numerous concerts and performances since 1996, from Hamburg’s Golden Pudel Club to Taxispalais in Innsbruck and New York’s Le Petit Versailles.
Full programme at: www.seanaps.net
From age 13.
HIT is a production by Greta Granderath. Funded by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Culture and Media, Musikfonds e.V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special NEUSTART Kultur programme. Supported by LICHTHOF Theatre Hamburg.
The guest performance as part of the SEANAPS Festival is made possible by the resumption and guest performance funding of the Dachverband freie darstellende Künste Hamburg with funds from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Culture and Media and Art Music Denmark & Danish Arts Foundation.
The Seanaps Festival is supported by Musikfonds e.V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the City of Leipzig - Cultural Office, and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This programme is co-financed by tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.
CONCEPT + ARTISTIC DIRECTION Greta Granderath
BY AND WITH Ying-Hsueh Chen, Carrie McILwain, Juliana Oliveira
DRAMATURGY Daniel Dominguez Teruel
COSTUME + SET + STYLING Ilona Klein
LIGHT DESIGN Jones Seitz, Hanna Kritten Tangsoo (stage version SEANAPS FESTIVAL / LOFFT – DAS THEATER)
SOUND ENGINEERING + CONCEPT Sebastian Russ
PRODUCTION Katja Kruglikova
TECHNICAL DIRECTION Lars Kracht
PHOTO Sofie Puttfarken
Impressions
Prices
- Premiere Regular: 16,— €
- Premiere Reduced: 11,— €
- Regular: 13,— €
- Reduced: 9,— €
- Soli-Price: 20,— €