Coastal Souls – Mermaid Echoes
A dance theatre piece by Jacqueline Fischer
Coastal Souls – Mermaid Echoes
15 to 18 January and 21 to 24 January 2026
at Templum Düsseldorf
CONTRIBUTORS
Choreography: Jacqueline Fischer
Sound design, music & assistant director: Jörg U. Lensing
Dance: Angela Matabuena, Julia Monschau, Antonia Thomsen, Mariane Verbecq
Stage: Nikos Salamouris, Rainer Ortmann
Costumes: Ensemble in collaboration with Caterina Di Fiore
Lighting design: Julio Escobar
Event and lighting technology: Markus Schramma
Video scenography: Varun Krishnan
Production management: Jörg U. Lensing
Artistic office: Carla Jordão
Production assistance & social media advertising: Sibel Tunç
Print design: Ernst Merheim
Photos: Oliver Eltinger
Music: J.U. Lensing (Partially using music material from Selfish and Abul Mogard. Composition variations ‘Fandango’ by Victor Laurent and ‘Greek-Thalasso’ (anonymous))
Duration
85 minutes
When women wait, dance emerges…
Coastal Souls – Mermaid Echoes
When women wait … on the edge of Europe
What connects a holiday home rental agent on the Norwegian Arctic Ocean with a female captain on a Greek island? What stories do coastal workers in the Basque Country carry within them?
In this extraordinary world premiere, THEATER DER KLÄNGE explores the hidden identities of women on Europe’s coasts – between tradition and change, between waiting and resistance.
After intensive research trips through the Barents Sea, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, choreographer Jacqueline Fischer transforms collected life stories, forgotten rituals and mythical narratives into a touching choreographic language. Four dancers bring the essence of female coastal existence to life: the sponge divers of antiquity, the defiant net menders, the rebellious mermaids.
Poetic film images, hypnotic soundscapes and powerful movement merge into a sensual overall experience. The stage becomes a mirror of three seas – wild, melancholic, resistant.
An interdisciplinary dance performance about waiting, waves and change.
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