Dramaturgical cooking · food performance · Donaufestival Krems 2025

For DU DU DA DA NA NA NAH, Michael Kalivoda developed a dramaturgical food concept that extends the themes of the performance through taste, ingredients and their cultural references.

a production by God’s Entertainment

in collaboration with COURIC DESIGNS

crispy polenta balls filled with aged Payoyo goat cheese
powdered Jameed (dried sheep’s yoghurt from Jordan)
marinated peppers grilled over fire
vegan mayo with Torshi Makhloot (Persian mixed pickles)

The route begins with a boat trip on land, leads through a mountain range of oil tanks and ends in a labyrinth of driftwood, where a walk-in aquarium beckons! With God’s Entertainment, the waterway becomes part of a surreal mirror world, a perhaps poisonous snake, a dubious double of the “beautiful blue Danube” that evokes the uncanny and repressed aspects of our ideas of (South-Eastern) Europe.

In fact, the encounter zone of water is at once a trade route and a space of longing, a migration passage and a national border, nature and canal. As myth and possibility, it creates routes that can be followed and connects the flows of things and beings, of oil, waste, data, swarms and pheromones. These are paths concerned with unheard-of movements, tactics of translation and transgression, and unplanned encounters. In God’s Entertainment’s Danube double, everything flows.

With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna / MA7

Dramaturgical cooking · food performance · Donaufestival Krems 2025

For DU DU DA DA NA NA NAH, Michael Kalivoda developed a dramaturgical food concept that extends the themes of the performance through taste, ingredients and their cultural references.

a production by God’s Entertainment

in collaboration with COURIC DESIGNS

crispy polenta balls filled with aged Payoyo goat cheese
powdered Jameed (dried sheep’s yoghurt from Jordan)
marinated peppers grilled over fire
vegan mayo with Torshi Makhloot (Persian mixed pickles)

The route begins with a boat trip on land, leads through a mountain range of oil tanks and ends in a labyrinth of driftwood, where a walk-in aquarium beckons! With God’s Entertainment, the waterway becomes part of a surreal mirror world, a perhaps poisonous snake, a dubious double of the “beautiful blue Danube” that evokes the uncanny and repressed aspects of our ideas of (South-Eastern) Europe.

In fact, the encounter zone of water is at once a trade route and a space of longing, a migration passage and a national border, nature and canal. As myth and possibility, it creates routes that can be followed and connects the flows of things and beings, of oil, waste, data, swarms and pheromones. These are paths concerned with unheard-of movements, tactics of translation and transgression, and unplanned encounters. In God’s Entertainment’s Danube double, everything flows.

With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna / MA7