The Ocean

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
Access Dramaturgy: Athena Lange, Fanny Maugard
Dramaturgy: Bastian Zimmermann
Outside Eye: Jette Büchsenschütz
Costume Design: Konstantin von Sichart
Drinks: Ayami Awazuhara

Performers: Dessa Ganda, Laurène Loctin (in Berlin: Sabine Scherbel), Josefine Mühle

Team in Berlin:
Sounddesign: Riccardo Castagnola
Light: Madison Pomarico
Assistant Director: Jojo Büttler
Stage Design, Artistic Assistance: Roberta Faust
Interpreting German/German Sign Language: Juliane Kessler
Interpreting German/German Sign Language (premiere): Leo Nagel
Interpreting German/German Sign Language (rehearsals): Lisa Schuler
Internship: Melina Roch

Team in France:
Technical Direction, Sounddesign: Margaux Robin
Light: Bruno Pocheron
Interpreting German/German Sign Language: Sandrine Trottin

Administration: Laurence Carlier
Production: Paula Haefele
Communications, Distribution: Astrid Rostaing
Graphic Design: Konstantin von Sichart

2026

Le Phénix scène nationale Valenciennes Métropole - pôle international de production et de diffusion

Maison de la Culture d'Amiens

2025

Schrumpf!, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin

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 Métropole – pôle international de production et de diffusion, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Ballhaus Ost Berlin
With the support of Musikfonds, Région Hauts-de-France, Impuls neue Musik together with the GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten), Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, SACEM – Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique
In cooperation with LOUDsoft – Musikerlebnisse für Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene, Theaterhaus Mitte
SCHRUMPF! is a project by LOUDsoft, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin

The Ocean 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.