The impressive ambience of the Great House holds room for large operas, concerts and theatrical productions in elaborate stage designs. The design of the auditorium alone allows the visitor to create a distance from everyday happenings and become captivated by the events on stage.
Antoine Jully creates his first evening-filling debut. His work is grounded in quotes and pictures found in the Duino Elegies from Rainer Marie Rilke, from William Shakespeares sonnets and by the Irishman Oscar Wilde and deals with an eternally current theme: the relationship between men and women, their incomprehensible love and the impossibilities thereof.
Antoine Jully will design the stage together with the Oldenburg painter and jewelry designer Alexandra Telgmann.
Source: http://staatstheater.de/menandwomen.html
MEN AND WOMEN (UA) Ballett von Antione Jully
Diese Kombination von musikalischer Dramatik, expressiver Körperlichkeit und illustrierendem Bühnenbild ist eine Art Gesamtkunstwerk – ausdrucksstark und intensiv, aber bestimmt nicht komisch. ( Nordwest Zeitung )
“This combination of musical drama, expressive physicality and illustrative stage design is a total work of art – expressive and intense.” (Nordwest Zeitung)
From the State Theater program booklet:
“Interdisciplinary thinking”
from the postcard to the stage
For the stage design for Antoine Jully's "Men and Woman", the choreographer collaborated with the Oldenburg painter and master goldsmith Alexandra Telgmann. In addition to her own jewelry collections, the artist also produces large oil paintings, watercolors and a series of postcards. In this she has already dealt with various human relationship constellations. Her works can be described purely, almost sketch-like and, despite or precisely because of their "simplicity", they trigger something in the viewer: they stimulate thinking and dreaming. Antoine Jully, who already knew Alexandra Telgmann's work, asked her to design the stage design and work out various models and ideas. Your drawings will hang on large canvases throughout the stage and will appear in a completely different way. They show what Antione Jully, among others, is about in his creations: the eternal cycle of living together and coexisting. In "Men and Woman" there is not only the choreographic confrontation between women and men, but also the encounter between painting and stage as well as graphics and ballet.
Text: Nastasja Fischer
