After watching this piece you will find yourself more attuned to the sound of laughter around you. - Islington Gazette (UK), 10/02/2011
Laugh is a piece about laughing as laughing. For the length of the piece Antonia Baehr explores this expression as a sovereign entity, in separation from causal baggage; jokes, tickles, narrative, humor, joy, looking at the thing itself: the sound and shape, the music, choreography and drama, the rhythm and the gesture of laughter. Comedy is not her goal, but contamination is an unavoidable byproduct that sometimes contagiously trades sides of the ‘fourth wall’.
Rire is magisch - De Morgen (BE), 13/03/2009
Une performance époustouflante sur le rire - LyonCapitale.fr, 2/012/2008
Radikal, witzig, verstörend, spanned - Mittelbayrische Zeitung (DE), 26/02/2010
60’
based on scores by: Naima Akkar, Lindy Annis, Bettina von Arnim, Antonia Baehr, Ulrich Baehr, Frieder Butzmann, Valérie Castan, Manuel Coursin, Nicole Dembélé, Nathan Fuhr, Sylvie Garot, Frédéric Gies, Christian Kesten, Heather Kravas, Antonija Livingstone, Andrea Neumann, Stefan Pente, Isabell Spengler, Steffi Weismann, William Wheeler, Henry Wilt, a.o.
Concept, interpretation, composition, choreography: Antonia Baehr
Artistic collaboration, choreography: Valérie Castan
Dramaturgy: Lindy Annis
Sound design, composition: Manuel Coursin
Light design: Sylvie Garot
Sound regie: Samuel Pajand
Technical direction: Georgia Ben Brahim
Administration : Ulrike Melzwig, Alexandra Wellensiek
Production: make up productions
Co-production: Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Les Subsistances, Lyon
Supported by: the cultural administration of Berlin and Ausland, Berlin.
