L’Océan I Der Ozean

a multisensory performance for a Deaf and hearing audience, with or without babies
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Concept, Direction, Stage Design: Aliénor Dauchez
Composition: Genoël von Lilienstern
Dramaturgy: Bastian Zimmermann
Access Dramaturgy: Athena Lange
Costume Design: Konstantin von Sichart
Outside Eye: Jette Büchsenschütz

Performers: Dessa Ganda, Josefine Mühle, Sabine Scherbel

Sounddesign: Riccardo Castagnola
Light: Madison Pomarico
Assistant Director: Jojo Büttler
Stage Design & Artistic Assistance: Roberta Faust
Production: Paula Haefele, Laurence Carlier
Communications: Astrid Rostaing, Apricot Productions
Distribution: Astrid Rostaing
Graphic Design: Konstantin von Sichart

2026

Le Phénix – scène nationale Valenciennes, pôle européen de création

Maison de la Culture d'Amiens

2025

Ballhaus Ost, Berlin

Residency, Maison de la Culture d'Amiens

Residency, Le Phénix SN Valenciennes

A production by La Cage
Co-produced by Le Phénix – scène nationale Valenciennes, European Center for Creation
With the support of Musikfonds, Région Hauts-de-France, Impuls neue Musik, Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers)
In cooperation with Ballhaus Ost Berlin, LOUDsoft – musical experiences for children, young people and adults, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Theaterhaus Mitte
SCHRUMPF! is a project by LOUDsoft, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin

L'Océan I Der Ozean is a multisensory dance and music performance for Deaf and hearing adults, with and without babies. The performance immerses itself in the complex and ambivalent experiences of parenthood – a web of contradictions between care, exhaustion, and tenderness. Inspired by the image of the ocean – a symbol of vastness, change, and protection, of an imagined, inexhaustible maternal source, but also of an open, connecting body of water – the piece approaches the themes of parenthood, care, and dependency from different perspectives. In close interplay of voice, choreography, vibrations, taste, and sign language, a multilayered, collectively perceptible composition emerges, created by Genoël von Lilienstern and La Cage.