Coastal Souls - The M ermaid

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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Premiere from January 15 to 18 and January 22 to 24, 2026, at TEMPLUM Düsseldorf