IL GRANDE RIFIUTO

LIGNA > Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners, Torsten Michaelson

Elena Basteri, Emanuele Guidi, Elisa Ricci > artistic and production coordination

Verena Rastner > administration

Elena Basteri, Elisa Ricci > translations

In German and Italian language

Supported by > Goethe - Institut Genua, Goethe - Institut Mailand, Nationales Performance Netz (NPN), International Guest Performance Fund for Dance and by the residency program of Goethe - Institut e.V.

Partner > ar/ge kunst Bolzano / Bozen, Santarcangelo 2015 Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza, On Bologna, Fondazione Luzzati - Teatro della Tosse, Terni Festival Internazionale della creazione contemporanea

In August 191, a congress of the Second International was planned in Vienna. The aim was to react against the looming start of the war by means of a pan-European general strike. However, the congress did not take place; the war beat it to it. What would have happened if the vision of the general strike had come about, if the allegedly fateful run of events had been redirected? What if the grasp at national identity had been hushed by an International refusal? Would we, in case the general strike had succeeded, be living in a time when national identity appeared as an imposition out of distant past?