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Dieudonné Niangouna / Compagnie Les Bruits de la Rue

(Paris/Brazzaville)

Le Kung Fu

Mousonturm Saal

Performance/Theater

In this piece, Dieudonné Niangouna traces his path from enthusiastic film fan to theatre maker based on his own childhood memories in Congo: together with his father he spent a lot of time in front of their home video recorder and dreamed of a career as a Shaolin monk and as the first Congolese Kung Fu film star. For Kung Fu, Niangouna mixes his own childhood and cinematic memories with individual film sequences that each respectively changed the lives of 20 residents of Frankfurt. For the piece, they reenacted their favourite scenes: from Rocky Balboa to Romy Schneider, from Jackie Brown to Blade Runner, the idols of our collective cinematic memory – inextricably connected with personal moments and sentiments.

French with German surtitles

Text, Direction, Performance: Dieudonné Niangouna * Artistic collaboration: Laetitia Ajanohun * Audiovisal realisation/ Video: Wolfgang Korwin * Technical production, Audio- and Videosupport: Nicolas Barrot * Light designg: Laurent Vergnaud * Stage design: Patrick Janvier, Charlotte Humbert * Production: Antoin Blesson * Produktion assistance: Lea Coqueberg * with Ajlin Bajramovic, Angelika Bogenschütz, Carolin Hartmann, Caroline Haberland, Carsten Koch, Cassis Kilian, Daniel Bittner, David Brockfeld, Elena Maier, Elisa Liepsch, Elza Tagirova, Fabrice Ottou Onana, Geeske van Bockhorst, Gulnur Dautova, Helen Hofmann, Ida Louise Hattenberger, Jannis Plastargias, Julia Kretschmer, Klaus Herrmann, Magnus Hamsch, Malgorzata Kozarzewska, Malte Menze, Malwin Hillier, Mario Bakovic, Martin Baasch, Melina Hepp, Petra Seynstahl, Pia Krowas, Reinhard Männel, Ria Maxine Rühl, Ruth Hasberg, Sabine Jasper, Sabine Schuchmann, Samuel Holroyd, Sandra Li Maennel, Sigrid Rand, Sina Vogel, Stanko Galic, Sven Krowas, Svenja Pfeifer, Teunis M. Van de Griend, Thomas Bruchhäuser, Thomas Rothenstein, Thomas Schneider, Tukay, Ullrich Stein, Wiktor Kozarzewski * commissioned by: Production déléguée * in the frame of Residence La Cie Les Bruits de la Rue für Autoren, with the support of Ministry of culture and communication * The piece is realized as a part of a residency in “Laboratoires d‘Aubervilliers” * a coproduction of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm within Afropean Mimicry & Mockery in Theatre, Performacne and Visual Arts * a project by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main under the direction of Dieudonné Niangouna and Martin Baasch * sponsored by Fonds TURN of Kulturstiftung des Bundes * with support of Freunde und Förderer des Mousonturms e.V. (f.f.m)

Premiere, Mousonturm-Coproduction