Moonflavoured Mountains

"Climbing through the attic, through the eye, onto the head. Looking out."


Here, Bo'wale navigates the complexities of identity and belonging, sidestepping expectations and embracing contradictions, traversing alpine landscapes and urban murmurs. Moonflavored Mountains is an invitation to step outside rigid definitions and into the spaces in between. Where mountain goats live.


"One day, she was just there. We bonded immediately. The mountain goat, I mean. Maybe because the mountains are a promise of freedom for both of us. Is a mountain goat without a mountain still a mountain goat? What if there is no place like home, but home has been transformed into someone else's vacation home? What if I could be benevolent without being ignored? What if the mountain descends into the valley, if a mountain grows in the city? What if we are the mountain?"


Portrait performances are a risk: What matters here is not the role profile, what you've always done because others, directors and producers, see that "in" you, but what you yourself want to tell.


PORTRAIT is an invitation to artists to show themselves and what is important to them. It is an invitation to the audience to encounter artists in previously unseen complexity.


(in German and English)