The Hessian Theater Academy (HTA) invites you to its "Werkschau 2025", with new productions by students from the departments of acting, directing, stage design, dance, choreography and performance as well as applied theater studies. In between there will be artist talks, drinks on the terrace and much more.

Saturday, 26.04.

12.00 - 3.00 pm: Get-together for all HTA-students

5.00 pm: "I will be that Man"
“I will be that man” is a journey inside the human mind, exploring its doubts, struggles and insecurities. It presents the different identities we have inside of our minds, and the inner fight between the parts that we like and those we don’t like.

Choreography: Ramon Ferracane
Music: Solo p.2 from Sleep by Max Richter, Ben Russell, Yuki Numata, Caleb Burhans, Clarice Jensen and Brian Snow
Voice and Music Editing: Tiberio Ferracane
Poetry: Ramon Ferracane
Dance: Ramon Ferracane – Sonia Lautenbacher - David Schmidt
Mentor: Andrea Tallis
no language skills necessary / followed by an artist talk

6.00 pm: "It will be over soon"
What’s the connection between a monkey mask, a musical saw and skating? What do Audre Lorde and John Cage have in common? Who is relatively young, has a big heart, and bones like a bird? And how do you organise your books? Not by size, do you? This piece is Carlos Franke’s very personal attempt to organise not just books, but life itself.

Concept & Performance: Carlos Franke
Dramaturgical Support: Laura Salerno
Light Design: Carlos Franke & Simon Lenzen
Language: English / followed by an artist talk

6.00 pm: Touch-tour for visually impaired audiences for "Bestecksprache" and "Moving Through Imperfect Time"

7.15 pm & 9 pm: "Bestecksprache"
„Bestecksprache“ reflects on a topic everyone is familiar with: food. Three courses will be served together with three stories, which - in a documentary style - tell of the societal and individual relevance of cooking. There will be live cooking and the audience is invited to a restaurant/kitchen atmosphere.

Concept & Performance: Ramón Jeronimo Wirtz, Laura Krabes
Performance: Marius Seidel, Lisa Sattler
Language: German

7.30 pm: "Water, Baby!"
Taking Astrida Neimanis' text "Bodies of Water" as a starting point, Lara Epp, Katerina Kalantranaki, Charlotte Pfingsten and Nuria Zechlin got together this past summer to research the fluidity of their bodies, took a dive into the phenomenology of being-connected through water. The result is a performative installation, an "underwater cave", in which they have created an immersive and meditative experience, through soundscapes, video art and projections. Charlotte Pfingsten and Nuria Zechlin will invite you to try scores, feel the water or just have a moment of experiencing oneselves.

Concept: Lara Epp, Katerina Kalantranaki, Charlotte Pfingsten, Nuria Zechlin
Creation as part of the scenic project with Yotam Gotal (summer semester 2024, J.W.-Goethe University / HTA).
Language: No language skills necessary
Nuria and Charlotte will be present throughout the installation and available at any time for discussion, questions, and thoughts.*

8.00 pm: "Moving Through Imperfect Time"
Is time created in our bodies or somewhere else? At the intersection between body, time and perception "Moving Through Imperfect Time" looks into the possibilites to describe and experience movement, in a society in which time is mostly seen as being linear. We will bring personal feelings, integrated audio-description and the audience together, to discover changes in the way we describe ourselves and others.

By and with: Adi Einecke, Mica Haubrich, Elisa Künast, Johanne Schröder, Ray Scheinecker, Sharon Jamila Hutchinson
Language: German and English

9 pm: "Bestecksprache"
see above

9.30 pm: "I:Am Momo"
Boxing time. A performance on performance – on time as a commodity, pre-rendered timeframes and the pain and beauty of being-together. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Times. Times. Times. Times. Times. Time. Times. Times. Times. Times. Emits. Items.

Orchestration, Mise en scène: Balint Barabas Szigeti (Artistic thesis)
Choreography: Kadence Neill
Composer: Jan Stevuliak
Lighting Design: Linda Lazarov
Performer: Myrsky Ylänen, Sara Pollari, Olli Kalliala, Bence Huszerl

Followed by artist talks to "Moving Through Imperfect Time", "Bestecksprache", "Water, Baby!" and "I:Am Momo"