NOW WE ARE EARTH / An Orchestra

Inspired by the endless and inextricable bonds of fungal threads in a fungus flake, all performers build together a polyphonic, resonant web full of colours and sounds, like an eternally repeating and branching pattern.

The boundaries between stage and audience are literally stretched and you experience a performance in which music, song, dance and set merge into an eco-futuristic “singing together for greater cohesion”. The voices of the performers and a many-member city choir led by young composer Timo Tembuyser, together with Lena Newton’s set and composer Gary Shepherd’s electronic, futuristic soundscapes, form a Gesamtkunstwerk that resonates like a collective, vibrant breath.

Alongside the performance, we are running an impact programme comprising of various installations and activities, such as an audio introduction, a reading table, a short film and a meet and greet with a climate psychologist.

NOW WE ARE EARTH/ An Orchestra is the third and last part of RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION (towards a new humanity). In this trilogy, Beutler designs visions and future scenarios for the planet in relation to the worldwide climate crisis.