Some of our latest shows:
Waiting for Mr. Waits
Reinterpreting Tom Waits´ songs as a story
What if we ever loose the Blues? We go funky
with A-Alavi All Star Funk Band
Tom goes to the bar
We bring back some of your memories, then we make them new - An alternative interpretation of some of the songs, we all know
Don´t even try to read Bukowski
What if Mr. Bukowski showed up in a bar?
Gospel According to the Devil
One night, the Devil called me "I´m bored as hell," he shouted. So I told him to come over. When he arrived, he told me how he would create the world.
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Music is freestyle improvised gospel arranged based on horns
(Duration: app 50 min)
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Luxury Blues
It is a story about a friend of mine who had everything but the Blues. So he decided to go out and find it.
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Hammond org, Drums and Horns
Music style: Avant-Garde Blues
The Magical Fountain and Other Fairytales
Six brand new fairy-tales about love, laughter and loss.
We play this show as a trio and the music can vary from jazz to rock to improvised music.
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(Duration: app 60 min)
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When I first met him, he had three options: To stay and fight, to escape and hide or to end it all.
Sometimes you find yourself in a cross road and you have to choose. The problem is that you don't know what each choice may lead to.
In this interactive show, the audience and the performers, one of whom is performing as a reporter, will pursue three existential choices to the end.
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The music is improvised, the stories are inclusive and the set up is simple .
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(Duration: flexible - app. 3 x 40 min)
Original Band: Jakub Miarczyński (percussions), Paula Sanchez (cello), Niko Seibold (sax), Alon Ben (reporting)
and A-Alavi
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Who is A-Alavi?
Actually to be honest with you, I don’t know much about A. Alavi. All I am sure of is that we almost share the same name: Amin Alavi. That's why we started to talk or in fact, he started to talk. Mostly about himself. The funny thing was that although I could hear the sentences and understood the words, I had no idea what he was talking about.
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(40 min solo show)
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So Far So Good
An improvised performance about life, love, death, revenge, sadness and survival in 8 chapters.
Contemporary music and improvisations
(Duration: 50 min)
Band: Paula Sanchez (Cello, voice), Sarah Giger (Travers, voice), and A-Alavi.
10 Old Cubans
A theater piece about 10 strangers in a bar with a lot of drinks.
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(Duration: 60 min)
Text: Julia Mall
Instruction: A-Alavi
Variations of Boredom
Each time a story is told, it changes and becomes a different one - sometimes it turns into a drama, sometimes it becomes absurd and other times it dresses up as a comedy.
In this project, A-Alavi Shows experiment with how many different disguises Boredom can have. Or how different boredom can be.
We have performed it as a solo show, with different styles of music and instruments and as a theater - an endless variation of the same text.
This project deals with the very root of a story as a story about a story.
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