COASTAL SOULS

DATE & VENUE OF THE THEATRE PREMIERE

Revival & Theatre Premiere

20 & 21 June 2026

at FFT-Düsseldorf, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

When women wait … dance emerges!

What connects a holiday home rental agent on the Norwegian Arctic Ocean with a female captain on a Greek island? What stories do harbour workers in the Basque Country carry within them?

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.

THE PROJECT

This interdisciplinary research and art project is based on research residencies in Norway (Hammerfest, 2023), Greece (Ermioni, 2025) and Spain (Basque Country, 2025). Through interviews and artistic encounters, local stories and traditions were collected and transformed into a dance theatre piece.

FUNDING

Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf, the Ministry for Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Stiftung van Meeteren and the support association „Klangtheater e.V.”. — The research phase was supported by Culture Moves Europe, Goethe-Institut, Davvi, the Etxepare Institute and ADDE.