Sāvitri

With Gustav Holst's opera Savitri proposes the Rundfunkchor Berlin crosses the bridge to the techno-culture. The Berlin choreographer and dancer Lars Scheibner stages the work with contortionists, so-called snake people, in the imposing factory buildings of the former heating plant and the world's hottest techno club Berghain next May 10th and 11th.. By 1900, the British composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) looked for alternatives to the Victorian lifestyle in the literature of India. In his opera Savitri (1908) after a famous episode from the Mahabharata, he showed with unusual invention of shapes and tonal language, Savitri, a woman who reclaims to the beautiful god of death Djamal her husband Satyavan. To acquire this power, they fasted and meditated 72 hours to come to terms with the existential experience of body and mind in its purest form in contact. One hundred years later, Lars Scheibner and his team are experiencing comparable work to the 50-hour needed for a techno-rave. For Scheibner Berghain is the place in Berlin, where phenomena such as transgression, ecstasy and transcendence are lived out today. Each week-end celebrate here people from around the world in a state of exception. The ground in the bunker-like walls of the invention to the Party Temple redesignated cogeneration plant is a world beyond the world. On minimalist rhythms dance the visitors into a trance-state in which they experience their body, their senses beyond middle-class standards and restrictions. The search for border experience has become a philosophy that radiates far beyond the rave culture. “Savitri is among us"Lars Scheibner is convinced. With dancers, whose physical Flexible speed exceeds any normal limit so far, he staged opera Gustav Holst and Holst's Choral Hymns by expanding it from the Rig Veda. The female of the Berlin Radio Choir embodies the "veil of Maya", the following beängsti world of delusions, illusions, apparitions. Before and after the show puts on classic DJ David Canisius, VJs stage the place, invite the audience to plunge into the maelstrom of sound, images and space.