Rimini Protokoll
The Walks
- SZENE Salzburg
Walking in public gained new meaning with the pandemic. An ancient and everyday ritual became an integral part of the new normality. People meet, walk, stroll through districts, play in landscapes, and perceive their environment anew with every stride.
The Walks is a collection of ten audio walks conceived by Rimini Protokoll which grasps walking as a theatrical scenario. For example, you can experience a walk in parks, a staged walk in supermarkets or interactions on watersides. In every city, voices, sounds, and music turn familiar places into sites and landscapes into stages, step by step through storytelling, dialogical situations, choreographed discoveries, or musical and rhythmic variations on walking. Each walk takes around 20 minutes, you decide when you start and how many walks you’d like to do. The Walks connects people around the world in a local experience via the fundamental human act of walking.
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel founded the Berlin-based theatre label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 and have since developed their stage works, interventions, performative installations and audio plays together with experts who have gained their knowledge and skills beyond the theatre. Work by work they have expanded the means of the theatre to create new perspectives on reality. They have been awarded numerous prizes and are invited with their works all over the world.
To use:
The Walks is an app for smartphones that can be downloaded from the App Store or Google. The activation code for the app with the 10 walks can be requested free of charge via the link "Ticket order" on this page through the SZENE (one code per order and while stocks last) and used from June 9.
The app occupies 100 MB of memory, recommended operating systems are Android 5.0 or higher or iOS 13
App download:
https://thewalks.page.link/ios
https://thewalks.page.link/android
Trailer:
The Walks (Supermarkt)
The Walks (Verkehrsinsel)
The Walks (Aufbruch)
The Walks (Friedhof)
The Walks (Ampel)
Text, direction: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel • Idea, dramaturgy: Cornelius Puschke • App development: Steffen Klaue, Alexander Morosow Sound design & mixing: Frank Böhle • Music & composition: Frank Böhle u.a. (see individual walks) • Graphic design: Ilona Marti
Voice recordings: Rimini Protokoll, studio lärm, Lorenz Rollhäuser and Vlaicu Golcea • Production management: Maitén Arns • Collaboration production: Steven Sander Collaboration app development: Gaétan Langlois-Meurinne • Translation: Panthea (EN/FR/IT: Naomi Boyce, Aurélien Foster, Anna Galt, Erica Grossi, Vivian Ia, Adrien Leroux, Lianna Mark, Samuel Petit, Yanik Riedo, Lorenzo de Sabbata), Ondine Cristina Dascălița & Adina Olaru (RO), Alexander Schmiedel (ES) Expert*s & contributors: Erdem Gündüz, Stephanie Haug, Katja Otto, Martin Schmitz, Antonio Tagliarini
A production by Rimini Apparat. In co-production with creart / Teatrelli, BorderLight • International Theatre + Fringe Festival Cleveland, European Forum Alpbach, Fondazione Armonie d'Arte, HAU • Hebbel am Ufer, Hellerau • European Center for the Arts, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Zona K, Festival PERSPECTIVES. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. The Romanian version was sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Bucharest. The Spanish version was commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Mexico.