HANNIBAL
glacier spectacle
Friday 5 April 2024
Dusk 19h30
Rettenbach Glacier | Sölden
Ötztal | Tirol
Co-produced with RED BULL and SÖLDEN
HUMANITY - NATURE - TECHNOLOGY
The dance performance HANNIBAL transfers the history of Carthage to the wild glacial world of Tyrol. At the end of the road to the Rettenbachferner glacier, a completely unexpected event draws the viewer's attention to the surrounding mountains and ice surfaces at the end of the valley: Hannibal's crossing of the Alps as a contemporary choreography .
The dramaturgically orchestrated interplay between man, nature and technology becomes the central means of the aesthetic experience offered by this production. The negotiation of this topos with text, sound, image and large-scale movement takes place in the immediacy of the glacier “medium”.
Hannibal is a complexly choreographed, site-specific performance that weaves nature and the technology found therein into an aesthetic game. It is a good hour-long homage to the beauty of the ice world, to the courage and skill of the actors, who engage in the ever-changing interaction between the natural stage and alpine weather. The elephants: snow groomers. The riders: skidoos. Numidian desert tribes: ski formations on the steep slope. The narrator: Harald Krassnitzer. A fictitious Carthage TV broadcasts the breaking news from the live studio.
