Tuesday, November 25. And Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Pina Bausch Centre under construction, Bundesallee 260, Wuppertal
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Who composes? Who plays? On what? For SWEAT Rimini Protokoll pose these questions in a humorous new way. Fitness machines – taken from the world of physical self-optimization – now become music machines on the concert stage, and training muscles now means making music.
SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull. The Concert
November 25 and 26, 2025, 7:30 pm
The concert SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull was composed by multidisciplinary musicians such as AIGEL, Brigitta Muntendorf, Güner Künier, Sophia Wind, Schneider TM, Fabian Tombers, Bush.ida, Black Mirror Park and Wooly Aziz as an entire concert evening for this unique and innovative group of instruments. But who can play these instruments? People who have been unknowingly rehearsing for a long time by exercising on the original machines. People who may never have played a concert before, but whose regular training has given them a precise feel for their tendons and muscles. The Songs are a work-out and an evening of music at the same time, with a soundscape between gym, pop and contemporary compositions..
SWEAT MACHINES: An acoustic Playground. The Installation
November 25, 17:00, and November 26, 2025, 15:00
In the walk-in, interactive installation SWEAT MACHINES. An acoustic Play-ground, the audience can bring the machine orchestra to life and perhaps even get their own pulse racing. Multi-layered narratives unfold for the audience via head-phones and text-based media: inspired by intensive research in Berlin and Lucken-walde (Brandenburg) and interwoven with the protein-rich history of fitness culture. Rimini Protokoll.
Rimini Protokoll
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel founded the theatre-label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 and have since worked in different constellations under this name. Work by work they have expanded the means of the theatre to create new perspectives on reality.
Rimini Protokoll often develop their stage-works, interventions, performative installations and audio plays together with experts who have gained their knowledge and skills beyond the theatre. Furthermore, they like to transpose rooms or social structures into theatrical formats. Many of their works feature interactivity and a playful use of technology.
Most recently, Rimini Protokoll thrilled the city with its 2022 audio walk REMOTE WUPPERTAL. We are delighted to welcome this outstanding collective as part of the preliminary phase of the Pina Bausch Centre under construction. Further information about Rimini Protokoll can be found here.
SWEAT. Songs of Push and Pull
Music by and with: AIGEL, Black Mirror Park, Bush.ida, Güner Künier, Brigitta Muntendorf, Schneider TM, Franz Schubert, Fabian Tombers, Daniel Wetzel, Sophia Wind, Wooly Aziz
Performing on stage: Shar Adams (coach), Lisa Wadle (coach) and local performers from Wuppertal
Performing on video: Aigel, Bush.ida, Öz Kaveller, Güner Künier, Wooly Aziz
SWEAT MACHINES. Ein akustischer Spielplatz
With voices of: Bea Edwards, Brian (AI generated), Daniel Wetzel, Erik Veenstra, F. aka Charlotte, Fabian, Hatim, Hendrik I, Hasan Heinick, Julia Gal, Kathi Bernier, Lisa Wadle, Michael Brandt, Tomka Weiß, Veronika Nowag-Jones, Yulia, Zhenja and y-oung people from the youth clubs KLAB und Go7 in Luckenwalde
Futher interview partners: Aaron, Amin Basiri, Angelina Braunert, F. aka Charlotte, Ferinho, Hasan Heinick, Hendrik, Mirko Holzmüller, Sophia Kappa, Franko Maria, Mika, Prof. Clemens Wöllner sowie Chayenne, Ekrem, Fabian, Hatim, Julia, Nazmi, Nele, Omran, Senad, Zoe aus Luckenwalde
Team
Digital Conductor, Sound Design and Programming: Fabian Tombers
Interactive art installation and instruments: Alfredo Bautista, Benjamin Maus und Klaudiusz Schimanowski
Concept, text and direction: Daniel Wetzel
Dramaturgy, research and text: Arved Schultze, Erik Veenstra
Scenography: Lena Lupo Loy
Artistic collaboration: Yiannis Panagopoulos
Video design: abraso (Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya, Camillo Londoño Hernández)
Light design: Hendrik Borowski
Notation: Peter Breitenbach, Florian Wulff
Video engineering: Marius Bratoveanu
Artistic collaboration (dramaturgy and performance): Luna Anogiati, Yiannis Askaroglou, Olesya Lakshtanova, Christiane Löll, Lou Maurin, Patricio Suárez, Savina Tsafa
Surtitles:: Lou Maurin
Graphic design: Marie Faass
Screen prints: Milena Weller, Zoï Wetzel
Design technical belts: Alexander Auras
Technical direction: Patrick Tucholski
Technical and stage support: Cesar Balleyguier, Pablo Cornejo, Kellen Mills
Public relations Rimini Protokoll Rimini Protokoll: Lisa Homburger
Production management: Monica Ferrari, Ksenia Lukina
using sounds according to CC Attribution 4.0 by: Beetlemuse, Cell31_Sound_Pro-ductions, SoundBiterSFX
Developed at: E-Werk Luckenwalde, FELD Theater für junge Menschen, Haus der Statistik, Selbstgebaute Musik e.V., Uferstudios Berlin, Wokule Biesenthal
A production by Rimini Apparat in co-production with Théâtres de la Ville de Luxem-bourg, Pina Bausch Center “under construction” and E-WERK Luckenwalde. In cooperation with Radialsystem, Berlin.
Supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Gastspielförderung Theater, gefördert von dem Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, sowie den Kultur- und Kunstministerien der Länder.
