Performance “Night Piece N°7” | Germany
Creators: O-Team Theatre
Idea and direction: Nina Malotta, Samuel Hof
Dramaturgy: Antonia Beermann
Live music: Moritz Finkbeiner
Graphic design, photography: Markus Niessner
Performance, installation, cast: Nina Malotta, Samuel Hof, Marius Alsleben, Martina Wegener, Frederic Ehlers
Production Management: Lisa Ticar, Markus Niessner
PR & ÖA: Kathrin Stärk
Premiere: February 24, 2023
Date: August 24, 2025 | Sunday
Date: August 25, 2025 | Monday
Time: 9:45 pm
Place: Room C_101, Art Factory in Łódź, 3 Tymienieckiego Street
Tickets: 100 PLN - early bird / 120 PLN - regular
Ticket sales: kicket.com portal / online payment
Early bird tickets: on sale until July 13, 2025
Regular and reduced tickets: on sale from July 14, 2025
Duration: 11 hours
Age restrictions:18+
Language: introduction to the performance in English / performance is non-verbal
Important practical information:
- Admission time to the performance: from 9 pm to 9:45 pm, the performance starts at 10 pm
- Limited number of participants: 20 people
- We provide: a camp bed with blanket and pillow for each participant
- Please wear: long, comfortable clothes or bring them with you, changing facilities will be available on the site
- Please bring: a toothbrush, a small towel and whatever else you need
- Please note: the performance lasts all night and ends with breakfast together, please come only if you really want to stay the whole night
DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE
Performance “Night Piece N°7” is an overnight stay with O-Team Theatre. Spending a night together can be a special experience: sleeping over at a friend's home as a child, going through the night for the first time as a teenager, the sunrise afterwards, being stuck together at an airport. In ancient times there was a custom of staying overnight in certain temples in order to receive answers or healing from the gods in a dream. This is called temple sleep or dream incubation. A kind of dream pilgrimage.
While the day is used productively, consciously and clearly illuminated, the night stands for the other, the unknown, the mysterious, the uncanny, for everything that cannot be strictly conceptualized. Falling out of the routine of everyday life, of attention, feelings and thoughts, intensifies at night.
Together in a community of around 20 guests, O-Team embarks on an expedition to experience and reflect on this nocturnal state of mind. They create a transcendental sleep laboratory that explores the blurry in-between of sleeping and waking, of dream and reality.
The night piece is a joint 11-hour meditative ritual with elements of object theatre, durational concert, performance and immersive art installation - in search of a tiredness that makes us more receptive, more permeable, more sensitive. O-Team invites you to come to rest, to doze, dream and sleepwalk, to be unproductive and slumber away.
REVIEWS
“One of the most formally spectacular productions at the Rodeo Festival. “Night Piece” creates an enabling space in which a collective experience can lead to personal insight.”
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS
O-Team - has been active since 2007 and has gradually developed into a professional performance and theatre company. The core team consists of the artistic directors - Nina Malotta and Samuel Hof. Other permanent members of the team include production manager Lisa Ticar, dramaturge Antonia Beermann and graphic designer Markus Niessner. O-Team collaborates regularly, in particular with the puppeteer Antje Töpfer and the actor Folkert Dücker. O-Team is based in the Stuttgarter Wagenhalle Art Association and cooperates closely with the Stuttgart theatres - Rampe and FITZ. To date, they have created 30 projects that have been presented at guest performances and festivals in Germany and abroad. In often interdisciplinary line-ups, they mostly work in visual formats. The form of the projects ranges between performance, puppet theatre and immersive formats. They see their work as cutting-edge theatrical research for the innovative further development of contemporary performing arts - subversive, poetic and intellectual.
The independent theatre group develops scenic states of emergency and theatrical rituals that challenge the audience. The form of the projects develops from the focus on content and in engagement with the chosen physical material. Sometimes science fiction sets meet Greek temples on stage, sometimes sex robots meet actors. Sometimes a car crashes into a toilet in a public space, sometimes there is a whole night of performances for sleeping people.
Samuel Hof - studied stage design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. He has worked as a stage designer in numerous independent productions and at municipal and state theatres (including Volksbühne Berlin, Thalia Theatre Hamburg, Companhia de Teatro de Braga). He has also been working as a director since 2010. He is co-founder and part of the artistic direction of the independent group O-Team, with whom he has been continuously realizing projects since 2005.
Nina Malotta - studied free painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and at the Acady of Fine Arts in Kraków as well as scenography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. She has worked with various independent theatre groups (including: Copy&Waste, Monstertruck, Backsteinhaus Produktion) and at municipal and state theatres as a stage and costume designer and performer. She is part of the artistic direction of the independent group O-Team, with whom she has been continuously realizing projects since 2009.
Moritz Finkbeiner - lives in Stuttgart, has been active as an autodidactic musician in numerous bands and music projects of various kinds since the early 90s. He has been organizing concerts at various (off-)venues in Stuttgart since the late 90s. Both his own bands and the concerts he organizes are less connected by a common musical genre than by a way of organizing music that is often referred to as D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself), a form of organization based on networking, solidarity, personal responsibility and self-administration.
Marius Alsleben - studied puppet theatre at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. He works at the interface of puppet/object theatre, music and performance. Projects with his participation have been shown at international festivals and stages. (Figuren.Theatre.Festival, Fidena, Kampala Theatre Festival, Kampnagel, Callies) In addition to his own works (D. D. Rabbit, 20 Liter O), he performs in various ensembles and bands (O-Team, Sloe Paul, Mount Vegan Rawchestra, Puls de Cern).
Frédéric Ehlers - is a German/French artist. He works at the interface between performance and dance. In addition to his solo projects, he is always active in group projects such as the performance collective Planet Dance Ensemble, the publishing house ismellpainter or the dubious band Mt. Vegan Rawchestra. In 2023 he received a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden Württemberg.
Martina Wegener - studied fine arts at the Saar University of Fine Arts under Prof. Georg Winter. As a master student and tutor, she subsequently gained further experience in collaborative group dynamics and performative practice, among other things. She is a founding member of various collectives, including Neuer Saarbrücker Kunstvereines e.V., Planet Dance Ensembles, Mount Vegan Rawchestra. In 2010 she received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and in 2018 a scholarship from the Junge Akademie, Berlin. Most recently, she organized the performance festival “Performing the Others” and the art in public space project “Pöbeln II”, to which she invited numerous artists from Germany and abroad.
Antonia Beermann - studied dramaturgy in Munich and Stockholm and works as a freelance dramaturge and director. From 2015 to 2018 she was a dramaturge at Theatre Konstanz, in 2019 she was a fellow of the International Forum (TT Berlin). Since 2020 she has been artistic co-director of HochX in Munich. Her work focuses on international play development (e.g. in Burundi and Malawi) and research projects. She has been a permanent member of O-Team since 2008.
Event financed from the funds of the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
