Kozyra

lou salome a rome teatro di cani

lou salome a rome teatro di cani

October 2005, Rome

Kozyra's appearance at the Teatro Palladium took place under the auspices of the Romaeuropa Theatre Festival and was titled in Lou Salome a Roma... Audience members were invited to come to the performance with their dogs. As honorary guests, dogs and their keepers could enter free of charge and were given the best seats directly in front of the stage. The audience was first shown the film Appearances as Lou Salome. Made earlier in Vienna, on this occasion the film included a sequence showing Lou, Rilke and Nietzsche visiting Rome's greatest tourist attractions. The screening was followed by a live stage show during which Rilke and Nietzsche underwent dog training with Salome issuing her commands in Italian. The performance was periodically interrupted — by waiters circulating in the audience with silver trays from which they tossed treats to the dogs, by camera people recording the action on stage and in the auditorium, and by the dogs themselves, agitated by the noises and abundance of aromas. The canines' excitement was amplified by the anxiety of their owners, who had to divide their attention between watching the performance and calming their pets. The performance played out both on stage and in the auditorium.