Claire Lefèvre

Welcome to the Fisch-Haus

studio brut
Performance World Premiere in English
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Four mesmerizing mermaids invite you to the depth of their cabaret: Welcome to the Fisch-Haus! In the sirens’ after-hours joint, the mystical creatures try to sprinkle some glamour throughout the agonizing length of their aquatic life span. Between land and sea, human and animal, reality and magic, they distract each other, serenade their drowned lovers, and seduce you, dear audience.

, © Claire Lefèvre

Claire Lefèvre – Welocme to the Fisch-Haus

, © Franzi Kreis

Claire Lefèvre – Welcome to the Fisch-Haus

, © Claire Lefèvre

Claire Lefèvre – Welcome to the Fisch-Haus

, © Franzi Kreis

Veza Fernández

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Alex Franz Zehetbauer and Robyn/Hugo Le Brigand with Zosia Hołubowska

, © Franzi Kreis

from left: Veza Fernández, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Zosia Hołubowska and Robyn/Hugo Le Brigand 

, © Franzi Kreis

from left: Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Veza Fernández and Robyn/Hugo Le Brigand

, © Franzi Kreis

from left: Zosia Hołubowska and Veza Fernández 

, © Franzi Kreis

Zosia Hołubowska

Inventing their own mythological tales, the mermaids metamorphose into one another's backup singers, ecstatic groupies, or delicate fluffers. Their voices, themselves between sound waves and breath, cast magical spells.

In Welcome to the Fisch-Haus, choreographer Claire Lefèvre explores what it means to be in-between – at the bottom of the sea, her mermaids oscillate as symbols of non-dual corporeality. Number after number, they transform into this or that, and dazzlingly create a space to be all at once, or something else entirely.

Claire Lefèvre is a French choreographer and performer, living and working in Vienna. After graduating from London Contemporary Dance School, she studied in Salzburg's Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), taking part in the International Choreographic Exchange program. Her pieces have been showcased in several festivals in Austria and internationally including March Hare Festival (IS) Dance Days Chania (GR) TanzHafen  (AT) and have been supported by DanceWeb, Life Long Burning, and Huggy Bears. In 2017 she was awarded the BKA Start Stipendium for music and performing arts. Claire Lefèvre previous works Function Man (2016) and S/M (2017) were both produced in brut, as part of Imagetanz.

Guests dressed in "sparkle-sparkle-sparkle / underwater creature" outfits will receive a surprise gift at the box office!

Credits

A piece by Claire Lefèvre With Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Robyn / Hugo Le Brigand, Veza Fernández and Zosia Hołubowska Dramaturgy Andrea Salzmann Light Denise Kamschal Production Eva Holzinger and Sophie Schmeiser

A coproduction of himalaya project and brut Wien. With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Im_flieger and De Figuranten. Thanks to the Haus des Meeres.

supporting programme in context of Welcome to the Fisch-Haus

Siren Serenade – A singing and songwriting workshop with Claire Lefèvre

Further Information

Squirt & Flirt – A Mermaid Party mit DJ BOO (Bixxa Boo collective), Barbosa Sounsystem und PHILINGER 

Further Information

Dates & Tickets

November 2018

Thu. 08.11.2018, 20:00
17 € / 13 € / 9 €

Fri. 09.11.2018, 20:00
17 € / 13 € / 9 €

Sat. 10.11.2018, 20:00
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Tue. 13.11.2018, 20:00
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Wed. 14.11.2018, 20:00
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Thu. 15.11.2018, 20:00
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studio brut
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien

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Guests dressed in "sparkle-sparkle-sparkle / underwater creature" outfits will receive a surprise gift at the box office!

 

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Four mesmerizing mermaids invite you to the depth of their cabaret: "Welcome to the Fisch Haus"! In the sirens’ after-hours joint, the mystical creatures try to sprinkle some glamour throughout the agonizing length of their aquatic life span. Between land and sea, human and animal, reality and magic, they distract each other, serenade their drowned lovers, and seduce you, dear audience.
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