Alliance of International Production Houses

In 1996, »Allee der Kosmonauten« was the first premiere at the newly founded Sophiensaele in Berlin Mitte. Created at the cusp of a new epoch, the piece recounts an era of living together without an escape route. In a housing block in former East Berlin, feelings and movements of a three generation family build up dangerously around their living room couch. The uncomfortably comical exploration of this anxious space, crowded and colliding, triggers solutions at the limits of danceability.

Direction, Choreography: Sasha Waltz
Stage: Sasha Waltz, Thomas Schenk
Costumes: Annette Bätz
Light: André Pronk
Video: Elliot Caplan
Composition, Music: Lars Rudolph, Hanno Leichtmann
Composition, Accordeon: Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
Dramaturgy: Jochen Sandig
Dance, Choreography: Nadia Cusimano, Luc Dunberry, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Nicola Mascia, Takako Suzuki, Laurie Young