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"Mona Lisa" by Art House 17 at Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2025
14 shows (sold out) 30.08.-06.09.2025
at Paardenkathedraal, Utrecht
Written and directed by Thomas Höft
Co staged by Adrian Schvarzstein
Musical direction by Michael Hell
Set design by Lilli Hartmann
Video direction by Michael Höft
Fotos by Foppe Schut
"Paris, 1911. The Mona Lisa disappears without a trace from the Louvre.
The whole of Europe is captivated by the mystery – even Picasso comes into the picture as a suspect.
Two years later, she is offered for sale to the director of the Uffizi in Florence.
The festival favourites of ART HOUSE 17 present this spectacular, true story as a sparkling performance with film, acrobatics, humour and early music. A theatrical ode to the most absurd art theft ever.”
Mareike is playing a Louvre visitor, dancing as Mona Lisa and Colombina.
She choreographed her dance solo of the Mona Lisa, to “Meditation/ Thais” (Jules Massenet) played by violinist Lina Tur Bonet.
Cast:
Sophie Daneman soprano, Benedikt Kristjánsson tenor, Dietrich Henschel baritone, Adrian
Schvarzstein actor, Thomas Höft actor, Bruno Gullo clown, Mareike
Franz dancer, Michael Hell harpsichord, musical direction, Lina Tur Bonet violin, Roy
Amotz flute, Georg Kroneis double bass, Ivan Trenev accordion
"Das verwunschene Glück" - Ballet Opera, Styriarte 2025
For the Styriarte 2025 Mareike Franz is choreographing Antonio Draghi´s ballet opera "Gl´incantesimi disciolti" under the artistic and musical direction of Thomas Höft and Michael Hell (Arthouse 17)
Styriarte 2024
Mareike Franz is playing and dancing in "Attems Saga" and "The Seasons Opera" directed by Adrian Schvarzstein, written by Thomas Höft,
at Styriarte, Graz, Austria - June 2024
She is choreographing the "flower dance" (Vivaldi, 3rd movement, allegro) and the "summer storm" (Vivaldi, presto).
"But Mareike Franz takes the cake. A young dancer with an aura, ravishingly authentic.
She immerses each of her performances - wether she plays the polar bear in winter or garnishes the other seasons as a sheep or partridge - in a pinch of poetry."
Eleonore Büning, VAN-Magazin
La Art de Varieté
Mareike Franz is playing as female partner of clown Eddy Neumann at the Da Capo Varietè in Aschaffenburg (Germany),
14th December 2023 - 7th January 2024
