Arnold Elevators (2024)
(Stationentheater-Trilogie)

At a total of four Viennese locations around Karlsplatz, Arnold Elevators will become a festival within a festival between 13 and 21 November 2024 with PHACE, Studio Dan and numerous soloists and objects: Blicke (13-15 November) invites you to explore six venues from the basement to the roof, from the goods lift to the conference room on an individual tour in the Secession. Schönberg's fascination with views leads step by step to a polyphony of musical-theatrical visual axes. Schönes Wetter in Gmunden (19-21 November), a series of six ‘public private performances’ in different parts of the Brahms Hall, each for nine listeners, leads into one of the most dramatic and momentous episodes in Schönberg's biography at the Musikverein. At the Double Portrait with Arnold in the New Salon of the Wiener Konzerthaus (19-21 November), the audience swaps places during the interval. And on three evenings, the Arnold Schönberg Centre will become a Metabolic Salon with a wide variety of discussion partners.

Commissioned by Wien Modern
with the kind support of Stadt Wien Kultur as part of Schönberg 150
and by Gabriela und Burkhard Gantenbein

Coproduction of Wien Modern and Wiener Musikverein
in cooperation with the Arnold Schönberg Center

Stations:

Blicke

Station theatre for voices, performers, ensemble, light and a freely wandering audience.
An individual parcours with six venues and a bar.

Duration: 60 – 90 minutes

Double Portrait with Arnold

For two performers with violin, percussion (horizontal guitar, Waldteufel, Gran Cassa on wheels), voices, objects, discrete thread organ, audio files, light, projections - for a divided audience that changes places during the interval.

Duration: 30 – 40 minutes (2x 15 – 20 minutes)

Schönes Wetter in Gmunden

Six public private performances for voices, performers, ensemble, light, video and - in the order of the six stations in the same room - a wandering audience.

Duration: 60 minutes