Sasha Waltz & Guests / Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
Spiegelneuronen
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.
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 – Internationales Zentrum für Schönere Künste.
Sasha Waltz & Guests is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Community.
Spiegelneuronen ist supported by Claussen-Simon-Stiftung.