FIRST NIGHT PERFORMANCE 1ST MARCH 2002 ESPACE MONCOR
FREIBURG
The parlour hunter hunts the wild animals of the great indoors.
When the parlour hunter's away, the mice dance a jig and the kitchen
cockroaches practise new practical jokes. The rats make soup, the
moths spin castles from flour and the bookworms put their library
in order.
{, just as the maggots are tucking into their breakfast bacon,
the hunter comes in and exterminates the lot of them.
In the cloud of gas dies the louse And in the mouse trap sits the
mouse
The hunter smiles, cleans his gun and tidies his spray cans away.
As people sit in their cosy rooms going about their own affairs
- reading, cooking, waiting, tidying, arguing - Death suddenly comes
in through the door.
He startles everybody. The people try to snap their fingers at
Death and want to trick him. But he chases all of them outdoors
into the world.
The people hurtle through the universe sitting unprotected on the
globe. They all wish they could go home.
Press reviews of 'Kammerjäger'
"...Hedonistic bugs.. In a room which is simply hinted at
by the presence of partitions, four of the dancers crouch like pleasure-craving
beetles, to avoid discovery by the sharp-eyed, jailor-like parlour
hunter/pest controller. A sophisticated lament, staged with relish,
to the hedonistic fullness of life, wacky, melancholy and off-beat."
Basler Zeitung, March 11, 2002
"...With the aid of curious characters, compagnie drift opens
up a rare vista into abstruse picture worlds: four intimidated people
in a small room cut up tomatoes as a team, read books in sync and
freeze, wide-eyed, when the bald-headed one disturbs their idyll
with his jerky movements. Or else, with their oversized ears, they
squeeze themselves into tiny compartments and perform obscure tea
rituals, while milky lighting makes them appear ethereal...The curious
scenes had a mesmerising effect that kept even the most fidgety
elements in the young audience spellbound..."
Berner Zeitung, March 19, 2002
"...Droll but sometimes nightmarish scenes... highly dramatic
absurd dance theatre with original language of movement..."
