Boots

The language of mourning - a performative approach

ZACK! PENG! POW! In BOOTS, a fusion of comic, theater, and film takes center stage, offering a visual feast. Live drawings, electronic music, projections, and choreography come together to create a sensory whirlwind. At its core, the performance explores a universal experience—one that everyone will face at some point in life: GRIEF. What lies behind the dusty motifs of traditional condolence cards? Should we paint over them, tear them apart, or turn them into paper planes? What brings comfort? How would pain look if we could draw it? And what happens to the emptiness left behind when something is gone?

Based on the performance film wearing heavy boots, which won the Hessischer Theaterpreis in 2021, and the performance comic heavy boots, which translated the film’s themes into a two-dimensional medium, HELLA LUX continues its artistic research — merging theater, comic, and film into a single form. With ZACK! PENG! POW!, a performance unfolds that breaks through canvases, paper, and stage boundaries, finally making space for grief.

From age 12 | German with Englisch parts | 60 minutes

Info

The performance BOOTS forms the third part of the grief trilogy, alongside the award-winning performance film wearing heavy boots and the comic heavy boots. As part of this trilogy, HELLA LUX continues its transmedia translation practice, exploring different artistic mediums and transforming one production into the next. A film became a comic, and a comic evolved into a performance.

Venues & Awards

Invited to Starke Stücke Festival 2022

Part of the HELLA LUX Grief Trilogy (wearing heavy boots, heavy boots, boots) - Hessischer Theaterpreis Award

Credits

Artistic Direction: Lenja Busch & Milena Wichert
Performance: Louisa Beck, Lenja Busch, Nike Hennig, Katja Sternkopf & Ewelina Zielonka
Choreography: Ewelina Zielonka
Music: Louisa Beck
Live Drawing: Lenja Busch
Video: Milena Wichert
Lighting: Patrick Kerner
Production Management: Gregory Popov
Production Assistance: Judith Hesselmann
Outside Eye: Liljan Halfen
Graphic Design: Zeig mal her!

Photos: ©Rudolf Wichert

Funding & Collaboration

Premiere 26.03.2023 | jugend-kultur-kirche sankt peter

Funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with resources from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR, as well as by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main and the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts.

‘Don’t stand still. Keep going.’ Quote from the performance

WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU
Email: info@hellalux.de

FOR PROJECT INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT:

Lenja Busch: lenja@hellalux.de
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Milena Wichert: milena@hellalux.de
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