Performative Nighttime Exploration: Moonwalk with Bri Schröder and Leonie Ahmer (Frutti di Mare) | Sparrplatz

Frutti di Mare, a duo in search of stories and unanswered questions, invites you to a performative moonwalk: a celebration, a questioning, a journey in the moonlight.
The moon, la luna, il sole, al-qamr. A celestial body, as contested as our own human ones. Charged with sunlight and myths, meanings and rituals. Feminine in some languages, masculine in others. It reveals itself, hides, reshapes itself, shifts time and the sea. Sometimes blood-red, sometimes deathly pale. The moon appears as Selene, Diana, Isis or Nanna and is traversed by men made of sand, patriotism and pop culture. With critical ground beneath our feet, we float after them, gazing at the sky, as humans have done since the dawn of humanity.

The moon and the moonwalk, both iconic, are interwoven through storytelling, mask play and performative slam. With masks, objects and stories, we move through public space and embark on a journey across the boundaries of icons. At 8 stations (inspired by the 8 phases of the moon), we focus on one facet each that has become iconic about the moon and what this actually reveals about us, who so readily see ourselves reflected in it.

 

About the Artists

Bri & Leonie are theatre makers and story collectors who seek encounters: with people, but also with objects and fantastical creatures, whose vitality they firmly believe in. Both love the forms of expression and the opportunities for insight offered by physical theatre, mask theatre, clowning, and puppet and object theatre. Bri also translates and sings, including in a Baroque opera. In recent years, Leonie has directed interactive theatre formats, primarily as a theatre educator at the Berliner Ensemble, and creates masks through whose eyes she catches new glimpses of the world.