Munich Kammerspiele: Massive concert with Pari San
Created: 2022-01-21Updated: 2022-01-21, 12:01 p.m
By: Michael Schleicher
Power center of the evening at the Munich Kammerspiele: Pari Eskandari.
© Omar Zaki/Münchner Kammerspiele
"Anima/Psyche" is the name of the powerful live performance by Pari Eskandari, which has now premiered at the Munich Kammerspiele.
Read our premiere review here:
Her voice has long been further, surfing forward on driving beats, spiraling up, fathoming the depths.
But Pari Eskandari's body is held, trapped, wrapped in long red rubber bands.
In the end, after an intensive hour – not only for the artist – the singer freed herself.
Sung free, danced free, fought free.
The Munich Kammerspiele co-produced “Anima/Psyche”.
With “Anima/Psyche”, the Munich Kammerspiele have thrown an impressive premiere into the Therese-Giehse-Halle.
It is an evening that shimmers between concert, theatre, performance and video art.
The energy field at its center: Pari Eskandari, singer, composer, producer.
At the age of three she had to flee Tehran with her parents.
She first studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, then jazz in Hamburg and Freiburg.
She finally founded the duo Pari San with Paul Brenning.
Their performance "Anima/ Psyche" is based on fat electronic music, which always sounds particularly exciting when Persian elements are composed into it.
The precise mixing of sounds, beats, voices and noises by the theater's sound technology is fabulous;
the crystal-clear sound contributes a lot to the success of the premiere on Thursday.
The audio engineering of the Kammerspiele mixes fabulous sound
In addition, Frieder Weiss conjures up his stage designs on six staggered screens, which react to the music as well as to singing and movements.
The recordings of the singer on her transmigration of souls follow like a Rorschach test - and make the evening an experience for eyes, ears and heart.
One can only hope that the Kammerspiele know what a treasure they have here - and will often add it to the repertoire.
