Constanza Macras . Dorky Park & Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz

Constanza Macras, on stage for the first time in Belgium, is a young Argentine choreographer who operates from Berlin. In that city she has found a fertile biotope for her creations, which are a fusion of dance, music, text, and video, often high in camp, always socially engaged, and expressing a critical worldview. She has an almost insatiable hunger for animated, even excessive movement-theatre, and a penchant for mixing autobiographical elements with the glamorous aspects of a Hollywood film. The result: unpredictable productions, carried along by the music and an intense group dynamic. In 'Back to the Present', Macras goes on a journey 'to the rubbish dump of the past' on which the present is built. Ancient Rome and the Soviet space station MIR serve as metaphors for failed love affairs. What remains are ruins and artefacts...