We locate “RAU(E)NÄCHTE” between the last and first breath of the year - where time falls through the cracks and certainties falter. The go plastic company's new production unfolds a multi-layered landscape of sound, body and narrative, inspired by the twelve mysterious nights between the years.

The Raunächte - once customs, superstitions, protective rituals - are today a projection surface, resonance space and cultural memory. “RAU(E)NÄCHTE” explores the potential of this in-between space: What remains when the noise falls silent? What do we hear when we listen?
Twelve figures - developed from mythological, regional, queer-feminist and pop-cultural fragments - take shape in two experiential spaces: as a walk-in installation and as a sounding, tangible search for traces along a performative panel. Bodies become archives, voices become carriers of memory, movement becomes ritual.

The production interweaves contemporary dance with audio art and installation - barrier-free and multisensory experience. It opens up spaces for blind and visually impaired people as well as for an audience that wants to engage with other forms of perception.

“RAU(E)NÄCHTE” is not a retelling, but an invitation: to pause, to feel, to listen collectively.

Biography

The go plastic company is an independent, interdisciplinary collective that works regionally, nationally and internationally in various partnerships. go plastic was awarded the Arras Prize (2013) and the Dresden Art and Science Prize (2017). In 2020, the company received the “RELOAD” research grant from the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the “TANZPAKT RECONNECT” structural funding (2021-23).

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Cast & Credits

PerformanceCindy Hammer, Pernille Sonne, Momo F. Tanner
AuthorshipCindy Hammer, Susan Schubert, Pernille Sonne, Momo F. Tanner
Choreography & DirectionCindy Hammer, Susan Schubert, Momo F. Tanner
Production Dramaturgygo plastic company
Music & Sound DesignJohannes Till, Johannes Gerstengarbe, go plastic company
Recording Supervision & Masteringjohannes Gerstengarbe (Ballroom Studios)
Voices & SpeakersAïsha Konate, Annedore Bauer, Aziza Bou, Alma Schuster, Cindy Hammer, Matthias Wagner, Hannah Adomat, Johannes Gerstengarbe, Momo F. Tanner, Pernille, Sonne, Susan Schubert
Lighting DesignMartin Mulik
Stage Sound CoordinationChristian Döpping
Equipment & Materialgo plastic company in co-operation with students of the HfBK Dresden
Technical DirectionBenjamin Henrichs
Artwork, Photo, CIStephan Tautz
Audio Description RepresentativePernille Sonne
PR & Public RelationsThomas Natzschka
Social MediaLea Schweinfurth

Funding

A production by go plastic company in co-production with LOFFT - DAS THEATER and HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Supported by the City of Dresden Office for Culture and Monument Protection. Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament. Supported by the City of Leipzig - Cultural Office.

Supporters: Ballroom Studios, minor pole e.V., TENZA, Pathos München, Schwere Reiter.