Fight Club: A Chorus, 2009
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In 2007 the Singaporean choreographer Daniel Kok was the first to interpret the manual. He presented "Fight Club: A Chorus" at the National Museum of Singapore. In Berlin, it has been post theater's wish to actually deal with their own manual themselves, before they will pass it on like a guidebook for a global franchise. The 15 minutes of fame for everyone (Andy Warhol) were condensed to one minute solos for each performer at the State Opera's MAGAZIN space. Under the artistic direction of post theater and under the theatrical direction of Max Schumacher, accompanied by a video installation by Hiroko Tanahashi and Yoann Trellu and a sound environment by Sibin Vassilev, the choreographers and theater directors Gudrun Herrbold, Bettina Holzhausen, Siegmar Zacharias, Matthieu Burner, Martin Clausen and Christoph Winkler joined the project - and the chorus. chanting: "Am I my job?"
A Massive Theater-Choreography for, with and at the State Opera Berlin by post theater [new york / berlin / tokyo] The core to this project is the main motive taken from Chuck Palahniuk's novel and David Fincher's film "Fight Club": the search for identity beyond your work. "I am not my job" is a slogan by those who meet after work to break with the conventions and norms that they are exposed to during working hours. They form a secret society - and "they" is in this case the non-artistic staff of the State Opera Berlin, one of the biggest employers in the field of culture with more than 600 people. 42 of them have been recruited to encounter 6 choreographers / directors of Berlin's independent scene.
All of them interpret the idea of Tyler Durden, the imaginary rebel against the service-industry. post theater has created a manual that - in a very detailed manner - prescribes the performance "Fight Club: A Chorus". This is inspired by the obsession with rules that are featured by the fight club in "Fight Club". That's the only reference to the novel / film. The manual is explicitly prohibiting an adaptation of these materials.
All of them interpret the idea of Tyler Durden, the imaginary rebel against the service-industry. post theater has created a manual that - in a very detailed manner - prescribes the performance "Fight Club: A Chorus". This is inspired by the obsession with rules that are featured by the fight club in "Fight Club". That's the only reference to the novel / film. The manual is explicitly prohibiting an adaptation of these materials.