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‘What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.’ This quote from the French writer Alain RobbeGrillet serves as the starting point for Heiner Goebbels’ latest piece in music theatre. Goebbels has created a collage of texts and music to explore the development of children into adults. Forty girls and young women from the world famous Vocal Theatre Carmina Slovenica aged between 10 and 20 constantly sway between childish innocence and the unpredictability of adolescence. Switching from medieval to folk works and contemporary music, they portray with unbelievable energy and great musical precision this fascinating and forbidding realm in which the old is no more and the new is still out of reach.

  • © Wonge Bergmann für Ruhrtriennale

  • © Wonge Bergmann

  • © Dorian Silec Petek

  • © Dorian Silec Petek

  • © Dorian Silec Petek

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concept Heiner Goebbels direction Heiner Goebbels artistic director Vocal Theatre Carmina Slovenica Karmina Šilec set Klaus Grünberg light design Klaus Grünberg costumes Florence von Gerkan dramaturgy Matthias Mohr sound Willi Bopp choreography Florian Bilbao texts Marlen Haushofer, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph von Eichendorff, Adalbert Stifter, Ian McEwan, Marina Abramović, Gertrude Stein music Lojze Lebic, Karmina Šilec, Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schönberg, Sarah Hopkins, Heiner Goebbels production Ruhrtriennale coproduction Grand Theatre, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Holland Festival, Maribor Theater Festival, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Steirischer Herbst, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Festival Borstnikovo srečanje with the support of Vrienden en Sponsors van Ruhrtriennale e.V. publisher G. Ricordi, Co Bühne, Musikverlag GmbH München

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