THE HILLS HAVE CRAZY EYES - Woman in a Landscape – Munich kammerspiele 2024

McCarthy's performance is rooted in five years of research and personal experience as an alpinist, culminating in a poetic and philosophical reflection on power dynamics, structures of violence and efforts to deconstruct, rethink and overcome. It focuses on sexism and racism in the history of alpinism, inherent colonialism and nature perception, set within a mountain allegory. A text and music assemblage of research and autobiographical experience combine to address violence and bigotry in a sentient search for new strategies and ways of coping and healing together with an ensemble of climbers, dancers, musicians and a community choir.

The mountain as a symbol of aggression has become porous; the glaciers are melting and the rocks are crumbling. Summit fixation has become superfluous. A renaissance in the perception of nature occurs, told through a group of melting figures that have immersed themselves, been overgrown, and thus are able to communicate with the mountain as a living organism.

• Performers Charlotte Huber (Narrator), Anna McCarthy (Narrator), Paulina Nolte (Voice & Dance), Andreas Pöschl (Climber), Nina Gottschling (Climber), Susanne Beck (Hermitesse)
• Musicians Theresa Loibl (bass clarinette), Sinem Arslan Ströbel (vox), Zoro Babel (stone xylophone), Veronica Burnuthian (electic guitar), Manu Rzytki (Keys/Electronics), KÖSK Choir
• Music direction Manu Rzytki
• Video Vanessa Hafenbrädl
• Dramaturgy MK Olivia Ebert, Sebastian Reier
• Artistic direction MK Daniela Schroll
• Written & Directed by Anna McCarthy
• Consulting Sabine Klötzer

On the occasion of the performance's premiere, two accompanying publications TRICKLES & OOZES and THE HILLS HAVE CRAZY EYES - Woman in a Landscape, including the research and notes/sketches leading up to the project were published by Edition Taube with a bronze edition of McCarthy's sculpture Melt (dancer) produced together with Fonderia Artistica Battaglia in collaboration with Sperling.

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https://www.muenchner-kammerspiele.de/en/programm/30730-the-hills-have-crazy-eyes