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Songs of the Wayfarer

Claire Cunningham

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“I love turning into a four-legged creature. All the little places where you can squeeze the crutch into a crack or a corner. In Scotland we would say ‘nooks and crannies’. I like to lose myself playing like that […] when the floor really […] becomes my companion.”

Inspired by Gustav Mahler's “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” as well as her life experience as a disabled person, the memory of her training as a singer, and the expertise of mountaineers and disabled friends, Claire Cunningham sets out to cross landscapes both known and unknown.

In this solo piece, she asks what it means to hike, to strive for great heights. What is it like to learn from those of us who reach for the ground through crutches like quadrupeds? What does it mean to keep going and, above all, to know when it's the right moment to turn back? In “Songs of a Wayfarer”, the internationally renowned disabled artist turns her personal journey into a love song – to the ground, to her disabled companions, and to her own wisdom of crip* expertise and joy.

*Crip is a political and cultural identity used by some people with disabilities.

Artists/Collaborators: Claire Cunningham (Konzept, Choreografie, Performance), Dan Watson (Regieassistenz), Luke Pell (Dramaturgie), Julia Watts Belser (Künstlerische Mitarbeit), Bethany Wells (Bühnen- und Kostümbild), Matthias Herrmann (Tontechnik), Chris Copland (Lichtdesign), Michelle Ettlin (Videodesign), Nadja Dias (Produktion), Vicky Wilson (Projekt- und Access-Produktion), Gregor Knüppel (Produktionsleitung), Keir Martin (Tontechnik), Anna Booth (Bühnenleitung), Nelly Kelly (Künstlerische Access-Beratung), Panthea (Künstlerische Access-Beratung), Angela Alves (Künstlerische Access-Beratung), Rita Mazza (Künstlerische Access-Beratung), Susanne Adam (Administrative Mitarbeit (für HZT)), Jeanette Gogoll (Administrative Mitarbeit (für HZT))

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