Beyoncé and Jay-Z, The Kelly Family, The Simpsons, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Married… With Children, Family Feud – social concepts of family have often been reinforced by (pop)cultural representation. Although it might seem fairly obvious that relation and connections akin to relation can function beyond similarities in physical appearance, non-white and queer persons have been repeatedly denied this connection. YO BRO questions common normative depictions of family, it picks them up and distorts them. Choreographer, performer, and theatre artist Joana Tischkau examines cultural and historical representations of family relationships in art in this work, together with her twin brother Aljoscha Tischkau, who works as a social education worker. Utilising their bodies’ performative potential, they create new images of similarity and difference, thus telling family (hi)story anew.
DIRECTOR Joana Tischkau PERFORMANCE Joana and Aljoscha Tischkau and family members from Berlin, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf STAGE Carlo Siegfried COSTUMES Nadine Bakota SOUNDDESIGN Frieder Blume DRAMATURGY & ARTISTIC COOPERATION Ellias Hampe ARTISTIC COOPERATION Nuray Demir VIDEO & 3D ANIMATION Sondi LIGHTDESIGN & TECHNICAL DIRECTION Hendrik Borowski DIRECTORS ASSISTANT Laura-Marie Preßmar COSTUME COORDINATION Nadine Wagner PRODUCTION & TOURING Lisa Gehring PICTURES Maya Röttger & Fungi Phuong Tran Minh, Marina Hoppmann
2022
Production: Joana Tischkau, Künstlerinnenhaus Mousonturm, Schauspiel Frankfurt. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Festspielhaus St. Pölten / Tangente St. Pölten – Festival für Gegenwartskultur, tanzhaus nrw, Kampnagel Hamburg, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Gessnerallee Zürich, 11th Festival Politik im Freien Theater in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and Künstlerinnenhaus Mousonturm, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Festival-AG, a network of the local Freie Szene in Frankfurt. Supported by: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR, Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts, Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
