Team (u)Building Dreams
When we can no longer find words for a positive common future - because opinion fronts have hardened, because individual experience is no longer reflected in general ideals and categories, because the bad news leaves us speechless - perhaps we need to change the medium in which we negotiate our dreams? With the production “Dreamteam”, the Cologne-based ensemble uBu explores ways to bring dreams together in music and dance, searching for a shared utopia in the virtuosity of the collective.

Collective Playlist
uBu is looking for music that is linked to dreams and is calling for a public playlist to be filled with corresponding tracks by 23 May: ensembleubu.com/projekte/traeu...

Based on these very personally selected pieces of music, uBu then develops musical and dance strategies to deal with the diversity and contradictions of the musically represented dreams, visions, ideals and utopias and processes them into the concert performance “Mutants in Music: Dreamteam”. The ensemble is less concerned with filtering out the “common denominator” from the diversity of the playlist contributions. Rather, uBu is inspired by the pluralistic practice of the Cologne composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, who virtuously interwove genres, styles, genres, eras and artistic disciplines in his works and thus already created visionary music in the 1960s.

Since its foundation in 2016, uBu has intensively studied Zimmermann's works and working methods and is developing a collective interdisciplinary compositional practice based on them that incorporates the richness and diversity of contemporary musical realities.

Can brilliance in dealing with pluralism be achieved together in this way? Can the dream team achieve mastery in collective dreaming? read less