SUPERAMAS (Austria/France)
www.superamas.com

YOUDREAM
Created and Produced by Superamas

“Good evening, America, and welcome to YOUDREAM!” Staging yet another revolutionary concept in the participatory studies of dreams, Superamas converts the stage into a sort of internet chat-room. Characters from various places around the country and the world will login to tell each other their dreams. This platform turns out to be one of the last places where you can legally mold (or re-mold) your own identity, unload your political frustrations or compensate for a lack of intimacy. In the second part of the performance the set is transformed into a real television recording studio. With the complicity of the audience, the Company stages the dreams told. The spectator is drawn into a semiconscious ‘dream state’.

YOUDREAM is a corruption of theatre by the television medium where the spectator is invited to help give shape to the dreams and participate in the construction of our contemporary phantasmagoria.

EMPIRE (Art & Politics)
Created and Produced by Superamas

From one of Europe’s leading hybrid performance companies comes the U.S. Premiere tour of their most ambitious work to date. Here Superamas authors a startling and often hilarious counter-history of Europe’s modernity, but the message is in the form, in the subtle deconstruction of representational regimes, in the reflections on the actual place where history’s debris is being stirred up. In EMPIRE Superamas is bent on more than ironically assaulting the desire for consensus and the univocal interpretation schemes of a leftist art world and ditto critical theory. We are in a theatre – that is at least where the re-enactment seems to happen at first sight. But then staged by Superamas on the invitation of the French Ambassador, whom we meet at the subsequent party, which is then staged by the actual collective Superamas, layering different representational strata. So where are we?

“The whole event was beautifully deliberate. Incongruities and associations accumulated carefully. The spectators were directly involved, too. Body language, and ideas about motion, were embedded in the group’s genuinely witty, subtly surreal conceptualism."
-Donald Hutera, DanceEurope