List of works 2022 – 2006 (a selection)
2022
Comedy (and the other stars)
A Dante Performance
Hof am Mühlbach, Wilzhofen
Concept & Performance: Tomma Galonksa
German translation: Hartmut Köhler
Also: Inferno V Song [with interjections] by Nora Zapf
Choir: Cantar & Suonar
Conductor: Anne-Voit Isenberg
2021
Pentagon. In Defense of Sense and Sensibility.
Denkraum Deutschland
Pinakothek der Moderne
Concept & Performance: Tomma Galonska
Participants: Adriana Alfano, Alina Desler, Newsha Djavadipour-Sigari, Christine von dem Knesebeck, Lucie Meyer, Syeda Nuzhat Sabrina Nabila, Laura Sunj, Sinem Yilmaz
Photos: Katharina Kreye
Costume: Miro Craemer, Carola Sonnenburg
Graphic: Rose Pistola
2019
Dante's »Divina Commedia«
And the reflection of the world
Klangraum Düsseldorf
Speech-Composition & Performance: Tomma Galonska
German translation by: Hartmut Köhler
Echoes of Hungary
Europäische Wochen Passau
Speech-composition & Performance: Tomma Galonska
Texts by: Károly Arató, László Bertók, Zita Izsó, István Kemény, Krisztina Tóth, Erzsébet Tóth, Tímea Turi, Gábor Schein, István Péter Szakács, Dániel Varró
2018
Farewell
By Jürg Laederach
Theater Basel
Concept & Performance: Tomma Galonska
Adaptation from 2008 on the occasion of the Laederach memorial
Poetic voices from Europe
Europäische Wochen Passau
Speech-composition & Performance
Concept: Tomma Galonska with Carsten Gerhard
Texts by: Odysseas Elytis, Victor Hugo, István Kemény,
Tone Kuntner, István Lazlo G.
2017
All this is true
An adaption of »The Persians« by Aeschylus
Klangraum Düsseldorf; Kunstausstellung 6:9 Weltversprechen München
Solo for one actress and a participating audiance
Concept, Libretto, Performance: Tomma Galonska
English Translation: P. J. Blumenthal
2015
Occasion_1 (cast-off-life)
Schwere Reiter Theater, Munich
Installation for a speaking character and a disembodied choreography
Concept & performer: Tomma Galonska
The concept won an award from the Cultural Department of the city of Munich for project development in 2015
2014
Longing for Territory. Longing for Upheaval. Longing for Love. Longing for Revenge.
Adaptation of Shakespeare's »Henry VI«
Leonrod Haus, Munich
Speech-installation for a single female voice and video
Concept & performer: Tomma Galonska
Videos by: Manuela Hartel
I live in hell – let me live
Video-Diptych by Manuela Hartel
Leonrod Haus München 2014; Munich Opera Festival "Stadt der Frauen", Munich 2015; Collateral event of Biennale Arte "Body & Soul", Venice 2017
Concept: Tomma Galonska & Manuela Hartel
Performance: Tomma Galonska
Video: Manuela Hartel
2013
performance_recycled
Schauing/Schaustelle, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
5 days of performing with fragments form former works
Concept & performer: Tomma Galonska
supreme mask
By Aimé Césaire
Klang im Turm, Munich
Performance in honor of the 100th birthday of the Afro-Caribbean poet Aimé Césaire
Concept & performer: Tomma Galonska
2012
NEWS 13:13
Haus der Kunst, Munich
26 days of performing − Poetry of Aimé Césaire
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Concept & Performer: Tomma Galonska with Tonderai Munyebvu
Sculptures: Valentin von Manz
Science adviser: Danila Roth
The slow sound of his feet
By Dambudzo Marechera
Artists Residence Villa Waldberta, Feldafing
Concept & director: Tomma Galonska
Performance: Tonderai Munyebvu, Denton Sikura
Hamletmachine
By Heiner Müller
New Drama School, Munich
Director: Tomma Galonska
2011
physical: MONEY
Schwere Reiter Theater, Munich
Performance about money and identity
Concept & director: Tomma Galonska
Music by: Anastasio Mitropoulos
2010
One Minute
By Simon Stephens
Societaetstheater, Dresden
A production of Schauwerk Dresden-Hellerau
Director: Tomma Galonska
public banana
By Roger Kausch
Schwere Reiter Theater, Munich
Speech-performance for seven women to a silent video about a Tanzania market-place
Video: Roger Kausch
Speech-Script & director: Tomma Galonska
2009
Speech and Power − But who rules over us?
Schwere Reiter Theater, Munich
Walk-in-installation based on a Kurdish song from 530 B.C.
Concept & director: Tomma Galonska
before disappearance
By Andrea Heuser
Schwere Reiter Theater, Munich
Choreography for dance, speech-acts and lyrics
Concept & director: Tomma Galonska
Music by: Sidney Corbett
Schwere Reiter Theater, Munich
(Revivals in 2010, 2015, 2016)
The Wolf-Gang
By Tom Lanoye
Dramaten, Dresden
Director: Tomma Galonska
2008
Farewell
By Jürg Laederach
6th New Drama Festival, Munich
A Music-Theater-Production
Concept & director: Tomma Galonska
Living Sculptures
Freies Musikzentrum, Munich
Series for international contemporary poetry & performance
Concept, director: Tomma Galonska
Texts by: Kay Ryan, USA; Patrizia Cavalli, Italy; Yoko Tawada, Japan, Germany
2007
Trans-Lay-Shuns (Über see zungen)
By Yoko Tawada
Meta Theater Moosach, Seidlvilla Munich, Residenz Eichstätt, et al.
A dialogue for voice and piano
Concept & performer: Tomma Galonska
Piano: Masako Ohta
2006
The Unending
By Gottfried Benn,
Atelier Tomma Galonska (Schauspielzelle) Munich
An oratorium transformed into a version for seven voices and saxophone
Concept & director: Tomma Galonska with Michael Mahn
Have a cup of tea −There is a time for everything
Kunst im Karree, Atelier Tomma Galonska (Schauspielzelle) Munich
Walk-in-installation for the Book of Kohelet
Cast: Two vocal voices, two music instruments and various tea-ceremonies
Concept: Tomma Galonska with Helena Hill- Wilson
There remains yet
By Rose Ausländer
Atelier Tomma Galonska (Schauspielzelle) Munich
Text and music improvisation
Voice: Tomma Galonska
Cello and Viola da Gamba: Margarita Holzbauer