Many people sit in front of a large mirror and stretch their arms crosswise upwards. Blurred hands are raised in the foreground. The reflection is slightly blurred, but some serious, interested, amused faces can be recognised.
© Bernd Uhlig
Many people sit in front of a large mirror and stretch their arms crosswise upwards. Blurred hands are raised in the foreground. The reflection is slightly blurred, but some serious, interested, amused faces can be recognised.
© Bernd Uhlig
Dance

Sasha Waltz & Guests / Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)

Spiegelneuronen

Tickets:

36/24/18 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, [k]-Karte from 9 Euro)

Info

Recommended from 12 years. Partially bright lights will be used during the performance. »Spiegelneuronen« is a participatory theater experience. This means that there may be times when you are in close proximity to the people sitting next to you. For people who feel uncomfortable with this, we have reserved an allotment of seats at the sides. All audience members are visible in the mirror - especially in the seats in the 1st row.

Past dates

SPIEGELNEURONEN is the first collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and director Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) – and at the same time a large-scale experiment about the human brain and its relationship to the body. There is a giant mirror on stage in which the audience watch themselves as if in a gigantic selfie. Slowly, the audience starts to move together with the dancers. This creates a collective moving image – as a metaphor for the human brain and the relationship between the individual and the community. The documentary research incorporates perspectives from brain research, biology, sociology and artificial intelligence, which the audience hears and experiences in a sound collage.

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A crowd of people from behind. Many raise their arms upwards and bend their hands at their sides. Further back, the heads blur.
© Bernd Uhlig
An audience sits neatly and quietly on a stand in a dark room. They are illuminated with soft light from above and behind.
© Bernd Uhlig
Many people sit in front of a large mirror and stretch their arms upwards. Blurred hands rise up in the foreground. The mirror image is slightly distorted.
© Bernd Uhlig
Many people sit in front of a large mirror and stretch their arms crosswise upwards. Blurred hands are raised in the foreground. The reflection is slightly blurred, but some serious, interested, amused faces can be recognised.
© Bernd Uhlig
An audience sits on a stand in front of a huge mirror. The scene is bathed in bright purple light. Neon green balloons float above people's heads. Some people raise their arms to catch the balloons.
© Bernd Uhlig
An audience is sitting in the stands. A few people stand between them, raising their arms to the side and upwards. Some in the audience are smiling or looking puzzled. The image is slightly blurred.
© Bernd Uhlig
An audience sits on a stand in front of a huge mirror. People are standing between the seats, raising their arms to the side and upwards. Some in the audience smile or look puzzled. The audience is reflected, observing itself.
© Bernd Uhlig
Vor einer großen Spiegelwand sitzt ein Publikum. Auf dem Spiegel ist ein netzartiges Punktemuster, das das Spiegelbild des Publikums überlagert.
© Bernd Uhlig

Press photos Sasha Waltz Stefan Kaegi Spiegelneuronen
© Bernd Uhligapplication/zip, 28.86 MB
#Big Stage
#Immersive
#Participative
With: Sasha Waltz & Guests, Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)

Concept / Direction Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) Dramaturgy Silke Bake Music Tobias Koch Scenography Dominic Huber Video Mikko Gaestel Light Design Martin Hauk Costume Design Sandra Tiersch Rehearsal Direction Claudia de Serpa Soares Dance Sasha Waltz & Guests Melissa Kieffer, Dominique McDougal, Francisco Martinez Miranda, Orlando Rodriguez, László Sandig, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Wibke Storkan With the voices of Christina von Braun, Professor emerita, culural history, gender theory, filmmaker, John-Dylan Haynes, Professor of Brain Research at the Charité Berlin, Sarah Karim, Sociologist and Lecturer at the Institute for Rehabilitation Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin, Tim Landgraf, Professor of Artificial and Collective Intelligence, Nora Schultz, Research Officer at the German Ethics Council, freelance science journalist, Tania Singer, Professor of Psychology and Social Neuroscience

A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests in collaboration with Rimini Protokoll. A co-production with the Salzburg Festival, Tanz Köln and Kampnagel - International Centre for Fine Arts.

Sasha Waltz & Guests is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and by the Alliance of International Production Houses with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Spiegelneuronen is supported by the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung.

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