The concept »Tales made of Light« combines two seemingly contradictory places of storytelling – drawing and stage – to a new medium: Projection Theatre.
Intermediator between this two levels is an apparently antiquated technique: the overhead projector. It enables real-time designed drawings to get into dialogue with text, music and acting. The drawer turns into a player who leaves his studio's isolation to confront the audience – and drawing turns into his performer, animated stage design and visual musical instrument.
Without any digital image processing pictures of light emerge, interfere with each other, turn into compositions and vanish. Moments of inspiration that, like acting, music and dance, are essentially immediate and unique.
Live-Illustrations for Westdeutscher Rundfunk: (regional broadcasting company) • WDR5 Literature Marathon 2005-2010 Cologne • ARD Online-Awards Show 2006 Cologne (within ARD-Hörspieltage – national braodcasting radio drama days)
»Mr Voiceless – Chant from the Black Sea« An electro-acoustic live-audioshow with real and surreal impressions from Bulgaria by Ralf Werner and Ralf Thenior in Cooperation with Kulturtechniker.net: performed at Rhenisch State Museum Bonn, Volksbühne Berlin, Tiefrot Theatre Cologne, KlüngelpützTheatre Cologne
»Pousse-toi de mon soleil« musical and illustrative improvisations for trumpet, electronics and overhead projectors
in Cooperation with Quoi de neuf docteur? (Serge Adam)
• Centre Pompidou Paris (Fi'art-Festival), May 2008
• Festival de Theatre Avignon August 2008
• Théatre Agora, Evry, October 2009
• Festival de Theatre Avignon August 2010 further performances projected for 2010-2011
Under Milk Wood« by Dylan Thomas – a live animated radioplay
Performance with sound artist Oscar Hielm
OHPen Surface – The Art of the Overhead Festival 2009 www.overheads.org
May 2009 in Malmoe, Sweden
