konnex
(Some)thing missing(!?)
Dance-Theatre with a talk show format for young people (10+), 50 min

The Première of the first version took place in April 2005 during Jeunesse Musicale at the Vienna Concert Hall.
Previews:  June 14th/15th, 2005, Dschungel Wien
Première: November 30th 2005, 
Performed until December 5th, 2005, Dschungel Wien

Idea and realisation:			        		 konnex 
Composition & Arrangements			Helmut Neugebauer
Performers:		Irene Coticchio, Christophe Dumalin, Miguel Angel Gaspar 
 	Aurelia Staub, Alessandra Tirendi
Artistic support:			 	          Giordana Pascucci
Costumes:						Ulli Nö
Stage design:			           	 	Cynthia Schwertsik, Red White
Lighting design:				 	 Florian Wagner

The prologue
A new day begins. Sunrise as scheduled at 7:20. Breakfast is ready. 
Everything seems to be the way it always is. But something is different. 
Somehow changed. Certainly not the way it used to be. Everybody feels it. Nobody knows it. What is it? Something is missing. But what? And where did it disappear to?

Did it evaporate, shrink, expire or simply leave? Was it still here yesterday? Who noticed? Maybe it has always been here and that is why we never saw it. Or was it only possible to hear it or smell it? Whatever it was: Who will bring it back to us? Who can help find it? 
It seems this is a case for the experts:

The plot
Four experts appear on the scene and with their cleverly devised methods attempt to get to the root of the matter. As always when something extraordinary happens, the TV is right there and a reporter reports live from the scene of the action. The topic is given its own talk show where the experts are called upon to speak. 
Everybody wants to be present when it is found. But what is actually being searched for? What is behind this mysterious business?
Dear viewers: Stay with us! Give us your undivided attention. You will shortly learn more.
Discover – Live with us! – what is missing!

Special thanks go to Peter Panayi for his musical/performing contributions during the first phase of rehearsals.