The film addresses and explicitly depicts sexualized and lethal violence as well as abuse of power against minors.

The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).

Early boarding

If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.

Tickets

• Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
• Via the online ticket shop
• At the box office

You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.

Director: Gisèle Vienne
Writer: Dennis Cooper
Original music: Peter Rehberg
With: Jonathan Capdevielle
With the voices of: Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Serge Ramon
Creation of the puppets: Gisèle Vienne, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak
Creation of tattoos and drawings: Jean-Luc Verna
Make-up: Mélanie Gerbeaux
Director of photography: Jonathan Ricquebourg
Chief editor: Caroline Detournay
Sound engineer: Pierre Bompy
Chief Electrician: Georges Harnack
Chief machinist: Romain Riché
First assistant operator: Ronan Boudier
Second assistant director: Brandon Luong
Assistant director: Camille Queval
Stage manager: Antoine Hordé
Color grading: Yov Moor
Sound mixing: Mikaël Barre
Special effects: Robin Kobrynski
Filming location: Centre national de la danse (CN D Pantin)

A coproduction of DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne, CND Centre national de la danse, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis and La Compagnie des Indes (Associate Produce – Gildas le Roux). With the participation of France 3 Paris-Ile-de-France & Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne. With the support of the Ministère de la culture / Direction Générale de la creation artistique, of Image/movement of the Centre national des arts pastiques and of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

Gisèle Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer, and theatre and film director. Since her childhood, she was trained in visual arts by her mother, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak. She studied dance and music, philosophy, and puppeteering. Over the past twenty years, her work, among them the productions Showroomdummies (2001/2009/2013/2020), I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This Is How You Will Disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle, Crowd (2017), L’Etang (2021), and EXTRA LIFE (2023, invited to Theatertreffen Berlin 2024), has been touring in Europe, Asia, and America. Vienne has frequently exhibited her photographs and installations in museums, among them the Whitney Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. She has published two books: JERK/Through Their Tears with Jonathan Capdevielle, Dennis Cooper, and Peter Rehberg in 2011 and 40 PORTRAITS (2003–2008), in collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Pierre Dourthe in 2012. Her work has led to various publications and the original music of her shows to several albums. A new publication - This Causes Consciousness to Fracture - dedicated to the collaborative work of Gisèle Vienne and Estelle Hanania, with a text by Elsa Dorlin and an afterword by Anna Gritz, will be published by Haus am Waldsee together with Spector Books in fall 2024.