How do we communicate? This question occupies us today more than ever. INTERACTION explores the many ways that we engage, both with the world around us, and with ourselves, through an interdisciplinary evening of performance and media. The evening features a creative use of the Schauspielhaus; it opens in the foyer with the dance film Untamed and a site-specific dance performance with choreography by Stuttgart Ballet Soloist Martino Semenzato that invites an exchange between dancer and viewer. Dance and media, foyer and stage – INTERACTION invites the audience to engage with dances of today on a multi-media spectrum.

Oh Dear, choreographed by Stuttgart Ballet Soloist Fabio Adorisio,deals with the author Franz Kafka’s emotional sensitivity: his fraught relationship with his father, and his search for connection to friends and lovers throughout his life. Inspired above all by Kafka’s letters to his father that went unanswered, as well as his work Metamorphosis, Adorisio explores strength in vulnerability. The piece was originally created in 2024 to music spanning from classical to jazz and contemporary for a theater-wide evening celebrating the author’s 100th birthday. Now Adoriso expands the work for the Schauspielhaus stage to delve deeper into Kafka’s inner world.

Kammertänzer Friedemann Vogel’s solo performace Soul Threads looks at the relationship between human autonomy and aesthetic. Engaging with Heinrich von Kleist’s key dance historical text from 1810, On the Marionette Theater, the piece looks at how the self takes space in today’s day and age. Kleist suggests that true grace is only possible from a puppet whose actions are not autonomous. Vogel uses Kleist’s theory as a starting point for questioning the origin of beauty. He is accompanied by an avatar at times, a doll of today. The performance combines dance, music and video and shows the artistic range of this exceptional dancer from new perspectives.