photo courtesy of Bodecker/Neander Company
One of the best-known acts in mime, Alexander Neander and Wolfram von Bodecker - present an evening full of delicate comedy, optical illusions, magical surprises and impeccable choreography
Silence has brought the duo from Germany great success around the world. The two tragic-comical, somehow ingenuous and seemingly lost characters turn out to be the heroes of the situation in some of the short stories.
Alexander Neander & Wolfram v. Bodecker first met in Paris during the three years course at the Ecole Marcel Marceau. After graduation, they both joined the Compagnie Marcel Marceau, touring with their master. In 1996 they founded their own theater, the Théâtre Mimo Magique, which promptly won the Berlin Audience Award for their first production, Silence is a mime show largely based on classical pantomime, however it has incorporated other visual forms of expression, creating a more magical realm of action.
Music also serves as a major source of inspiration to Neander and von Bodecker. In 1999, their first visual concert was created in cooperation with the Octet of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Jean Françaix' compositions proved the ideal backdrop to a fanciful journey through vision and sound - delighting audiences at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Dresden Semperoper State Opera.
Thanks to the universal language of their visual theatre, they have been on stage since 1997 in Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England, China, Japan, Taiwan, and in early 2003, they had their U.S. début with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra at the New York Metropolitan Museum.
In Warsaw, Silence runs for one night only - March 20, 2011 at 19:00.
Tadeusz Łomnicki Teatr Na Woli
ul. Kasprzaka 22
01-211 Warsaw
tel. +48 (22) 632 00 05-8
www.teatrnawoli.pl