Hunger in Cockaigne
Dance Theatre about food and eating for children (6+) and adults, 60 min

Première: Premiere April 22nd, 2008, Theater des Augenblicks, Vienna 
Performances April 23nd to May 11th 2008, November 20th to 26th 2008

Concept:						konnex
Director: 						Miguel Angel Gaspar
Costumes: 						Anja Lerch, Ulli Nö
Musical arrangements & stage :		Christophe Dumalin
Lighting Design: 					Edgar Aichinger

Choreography, dance, text&acting: Christophe Dumalin, Giordana Pascucci/Miguel A. Gaspar, Aurelia Staub, Alessandra Tirendi 

Hunger in cockaigne. Four fat performers share their love of food and are constantly searching for it. They cook but never have enough to eat. They are surrounded by dishes but still they search for culinary challenges. Three cooks. The rituals of eating as choreography. Pleasure and necessity. 
Four separate plates on thin metal sticks are placed in the space. They appear fragile, remind you of flowers and also serve as tables. Four performers who seem to have jumped right out of Breughel’s Painting  “Cockaigne”. A sensuous play with food, tastes, smells and sounds takes its course.
Foodstuff and the question what kind of stuff we actually need for our life. Smell and the question, “what is the smell of hunger?”
Frozen food and the impossibility to eat edibles in this frozen state.
To be defeated by the set of rules laid down in the book on etiquette. What is allowed and what is considered bad manners? What may be right in our culture may be quite out of place somewhere else: knife, fork, chopsticks, fingers, burping, slurping, spitting. Our world is bigger than our brain. 
In this show the ritual of taking in food turns into choreography. A humorous light is thrown onto the way we eat and what we eat and thus gives food for thought.
We are hoping for the kind of curiosity that is like hunger: it is always possible to feel it!

Painting by Pieter Breughel „Land of Cockaigne”.