For the first time in Switzerland: BOYS* IN SYNC! 

One week before the ESC in Basel and in light of Putin's announcement to revive Intervision as a competitor to the ESC, BOYS* IN SYNC bring a forgotten song contest back to the stage with their stunning show - party, pathos and political positioning, just in time!

In 1968, the Iron Curtain cracked open just a little: At the Intervision music festival in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, stars from both Eastern and Western Europe shared the stage for the first time — just weeks before Soviet tanks put an end to the cultural policies of the Prague Spring. More than twenty years later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, another pan-European music competition took place — this time, Western broadcasters invited artists to a joined Eurovision Song Contest. Intervision faded into obscurity.

Luckily, the European performance group BOYS* IN SYNC has a passion for song contests and grand show moments! In InterEuroVision, they shine a light on the forgotten Intervision festival, perform the hits from East and West in their native languages, and explore the political dimensions of both contests: What symbolic meaning does Intervision hold for us today? Why do we know so little about this historic event? And what does this tell us about the way we perceive European history?

Today, international conflicts continue to influence the Eurovision Song Contest and hamper the unpolitical, joyful atmosphere that the contest hopes to communicate. At the same time, Eurovision has partly become a stage for queer empowerment. Even if international singing competitions are supposed to appear unpolitical, they always have a political motivation, too. The show numbers, commentary and songs of Inter- and Eurovision can tell us about these connections…
 

«The hits and pop hits of the past are sung quite skillfully with plenty of pathos, interpreted in an original way. The result is a party mood that carries you through the evening. The political constellation of those years casually penetrates through the surface of the naive performance and the glittering show frills.» (Leipziger Volkszeitung)

«The performers fervently perform the European pop hits selected for the ISC. Between choreographies and glittery hats, the players interrupt their obvious enjoyment of performing to give the audience a political classification for intervision. With enough camp and glamor, the collective succeeds in creating an entertaining negotiation of music and politics that connects Europe's past and present.» (Nd-aktuell)

Duration: 75 Min. 

Karaoke Warm Up to sing yourself! On both days in Rossstall II from 7 pm

Party after the show on Saturday!

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