SWEAT. A Musclical

Who composes? Who plays? On what? For SWEAT Rimini Protokoll pose these questions in a humorous new way. Fitness machines - taken from the world of physical self-optimization - now become music machines on the concert stage, and training muscles now means making music.

 

The Songs of Push and Pull were composed by multidisciplinary musicians such as Güner Künier, Sophia Wind, Schneider™ and Wooly Aziz as an entire concert evening for this unique and innovative group of instruments. But who can play these instruments? People who have been unknowingly rehearsing for a long time by exercising on the original machines. People in Berlin who may never have played a concert before, but whose regular training has given them a precise feel for their tendons and muscles. The Songs are a work-out and an evening of music at the same time, with a soundscape between gym, pop and contemporary compositions. In the walk-in, interactive installation SWEAT Machines, the audience can bring the machine orchestra to life and perhaps even get their own pulse racing. Multi-layered narratives unfold for the audience via headphones and text-based media: inspired by intensive research in Berlin and Luckenwalde (Brandenburg) and interwoven with the protein-rich history of fitness culture.