Credits:
Artistic director / media art: Hiroko Tanahashi
Performers, text, choreography: Alexander Schroeder, Beatrice
Fleischlin, Martin Clausen
Co-artistic director / dramaturge: Max Schumacher
Sound art / music: Sibin Vassilev
Media programming: Yoann Trellu
Costume design: Marion Reddmann, Luzia Fleischlin
Technical director: Fabian Bleisch
Production management: Mario Stumpfe
Confirmed production and presentation partners for solo
version: Stromereien
Performance Festival, Zurich (2009) Dock
11 Berlin (2009)
Fonds Darstellende Kuenste (2009)
Production and presentation partners for trio version:
Senatskanzlei fuer Kultur beim Regierenden Buergermeister /
Berlin State Council for the Arts
Fonds Darstellende Kuenste (2009)
Sophiensaele Berlin (2010)
Intended touring:
Intended touring includes mainly harbor cities / maritime places
in Europe, the US and Asia, among them of course the countries
of the initial research (Denmark, Iceland, Japan). Other places
of interest are cities with high fish consumption － often financial
hubs with a high density of Japanese restaurants.
Fish,
identity and globalization
" Fish-Tales“ is a series of performance-projects that deal
with the same topic: fish. Several stories are told, either by
one fish (?The Only Tuna“) or three (trio-version, March 2010).
The performance series started with a site-specific solo in the
river Limmat, Zu¨rich (commissioned by the Stromereien Festival
2009). There are plans to continue the work in ponds, lakes and
rivers in several countries. In all versions, post theater collaborated
very closely with the performing artists Beatrice Fleischlin (tuna),
Martin Clausen (Herring) and Alexander Schro¨der (Cod). They
not only perform, act, dance, but have created their own choreography
and play text according to the guidelines / concept provided by
post theater. All three find their individual approaches to the
topic － and very different artistic languages. All performers
perform their own type of fish. All three share their role as
globally traded commodity and the fact that they are important
to the cultural and culinary identity for some people. Since the
thematic complex of fish between overfishing, ecology, economy
and the kitchen is so rich, post theater has decided to create
several independent performances. The audience is invited to follow
post theater’s journey to various sub-themes and topics all over
the maritime world. In all “tales”, post theater weaves facts
and fiction from unusual perspectives, mostly from the ones of
fish. Rather than environmental activism or culinary delights
post theater offers both in a disturbing mix. Consequently, each
performance ends with a form of dining with the performers and
fish － which of course is from a sustainable source.
