“Mount Olympus”: Huge orgy with trees and mountain tea – derStandard.at

Why ever sleep? When the Ancient project of the Belgian Jan Fabre comes to an end after twenty-four hours without any break when his Mount Olympus is defeated, no one seems exhausted. Great is the joy with the audience at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele

In Jan Fabre antiquities exploration is insomnia celebrated:. As an intellectual clairvoyance between dreams and staying awake-Do, as a trigger erotic fantasies, but also as a starting point of anxiety, yes panics. “The plague is in town,” it says at the beginning, but the “frenzied” god Dionysus invited to celebrate – the reason: “to glorify the cult of tragedy”

Even the ancient Dionysia. from which is derived the Greek tragedy, lasted several days – “madness and truth”, as the god announced at Fabre, insomnia and the truth of dreams have probably been true for them. Likewise, one could at Mount Olympus be reminiscent of Hermann Nitsch’s Orgies and Mysteries game , which was celebrated in 1998 for six days in Prinzendorf Castle.

Because, as with Nitsch there are at Fabre many raw, bleeding meat and actionist paintings. But while Nitsch celebrates the Dionysia as sacred liturgy, the Belgians celebrated exactly durchchoreografiertes spectacle. For a year this has with its 27 artists who he sees as “warriors of beauty”, rehearsed. They paint themselves, cheer each other – inter alia with war songs of the US Marines – to, exhaust themselves, are shouting on killing and wins from

While on stage just six tables and hanging about 35 mesh spherical lamps. effectively up and pulled down are – but Mount Olympus is above all an obscene orgy. A phallic Faun dances, while in the night, holy Hein with trees fornication is driven. The dancers are often naked, or dressed in sheets, sometimes they wear diapers or underwear with blood. Their vaginas decorate some dancers with petals. If a singer to Vincenzo Bellini’s Casta Diva sings from Norma , nothing is chaste mind.

In spite of the physical Fabre knows international ensemble repeatedly by long to impress monologues. Then his actors whine, yell, plead or want to convince as politicians. Thanks passages from ancient myths you get to know lots of Greek tragedy figures, for example, Medea and the wailing around them circling Jason, the murderer of his children but can not approach. Or Jocasta, which traces the joys of lovemaking with her son Oedipus. The distraught Orestes is given by a woman with umgebundenem phallus; Hypollytos complains to Zeus, why these women – completely useless, annoying creatures – have ever created. The gods are especially enemies who hate and despair and derision are hurled.

Mount Olympus will make in the next few years his round at many festivals. Amidst all the hustle and bustle, there is for the dancers but rest. Perhaps thanks or lying in the foyer, tents in the garden, Raki and mountain tea but even a little hindämmern right – During three short “dream time” about them on stage you could watch while sleeping. (Bernhard Doppler from Berlin, 30.6.2015)