Marina Otero: Kill Me

Between pop-cultural tropes, plastic pistols and boxing gloves, the choreographer creates a work about the madness of love.

Together with four dancers with mental illnesses and an actor who embodies the legendary ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, Marina Otero once again fills the theatre with ecstatic energy with her radical yet humorous stage language. Between pop-cultural tropes, plastic pistols and boxing gloves, the choreographer creates a work about the madness of love. At the beginning of a midlife crisis, Otero begins filming herself and her life around the clock, making it publicly accessible. When she collapses one day as a result of this process, she is diagnosed with a mental illness. This deeply personal experience and Nijinsky's biography, which is characterised by severe schizophrenia, constitute the starting point for Otero's new semi-fictional stage work “KILL ME”.

Marina Otero's sensual performances are part of her project “Recordar para vivir” (Remembering to live), an ongoing series of works in which she is the subject of her own research – a process that will continue until the day she dies. The previous works “LOVE ME” and “FUCK ME” were both shown as part of the festival “¡PROTAGONISTAS! Resistance Feminisms Revolution” (June 2023) at HAU.

ca. 90 Min.

Artists/Collaborators: Marina Otero (Text und Regie), Ana Cotoré (Mit), Josefina Gorostiza (Mit), Natalia Lopéz Godoy (Mit), Myriam Henne-Adda (Mit), Marina Otero (Mit), Tomás Pozzi (Mit), Myriam Henne-Adda (Livemusik), Lucrecia Pierpaoli (Regieassistenz), Victor Longás Vicente (Lichtdesign und Bühnenbild), David Seldes (Lichtdesign und Bühnenbild), Antonio Navarro (Sounddesign), Andy Piffer (Kostümdesign), Victor Longás Vicente (Technische Leitung und Licht (Tour)), Martín Flores Cárdenas (Dramaturgie), Sofia Alazraki (Fotographie), Florencia de Mugica (Video), Mariano de Mendonça (Produktionsleitung), Kysy Fischer (Produktionsassiatenz), Otto Productions (Nicolas Roux (Distribution), Lucila Piffer) (Distribution), Tecuatro (Jonathan Zak (Distribution), Maxime Seugé) (Distribution), PTC Teatro (Olvido Orovio) (Distribution)

Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Teatros del Canal (Madrid), Cité européenne du théâtre, Domaine d’O, Montpellier/ PCM2024, Théâtre du Rond-Point (Paris), Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon, FITEI Festival Internacional de Teatro de expressão Iberica (Porto). Funded by: Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Next date: KILL ME

• Date Thursday, 03/October/2024 20:00 (1 more date)
• Venue HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU1
• Address Stresemannstraße 29 A, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Price from €13.00

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