Madame Nielsen
The Silver Dollar Duke Royal Flush Gala (2023)
Performance / Commissioned work
Madame Nielsen, The Silver Dollar Duke Royal Flush Gala (2023), performance, photo: steirischer herbst / Wolf Silveri
Dates
29.–30.9.2023
Location
Orpheum
Graz
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’23 on the basis of The Silver Dollar Duke Show, commissioned and produced by Bergen International Literary Festival
With the kind support of the Danish Arts Foundation
In a newly expanded and reworked musical performance, artist, author, and singer Madame Nielsen intervenes into the scenic and sonic life and death of David Bowie. On a journey through nine songs, each of Bowieʼs androgynous alter egos is transformed into a new fragile, “Madamed” being that exists beyond gender identification and species, from homo sacer through android to posthuman insect. Each song is destroyed and recreated in an entirely new, frail, hard-heartbeating, and dance-flooring version—a show between homage and homicide.
Performance, voice, and guitar: Madame Nielsen alias The Silver Dollar Duke
Piano, synthesizer, and electronics: Simon Sailor Toldam
Concept: Madame Nielsen / The Nielsen Movement
Music: David Bowie transformed by Madame Nielsen and Simon Toldam
Text: David Bowie transcribed by Madame Nielsen
Light design: Morten Kolbak
Costumes and stage concept: Madame Nielsen
Retrospective
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