EXIT THROUGH THE INSIDE is a deconstructed techno-shamanic soul healing journey in the form of a transmedial dance performance.
Based on the feeling of longing for boundless connectedness and the desire for escapist experiences, Katharina Simons and her team conceive a collective rite to transcendence. The consciously induced oscillation between inner and outer spaces takes the audience to long forgotten places of longing and lonely shadow worlds. Breathing, body, sound and digital sphere blur into an ecstatic dance of love, harmony and destruction. Together, the individual fragments spiral deeper and deeper into the untouched expanse of darkness and follow the maelstrom down into an Elysian silence. Everything seems alien and yet familiar at the same time; a view that leads back up beyond the limits of mental understanding.

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In a preceding, intensive research CUTTY SHELLS followed the views and questions of techno-shamanism and focused on the question to what extent digital technologies can (again) create a closeness to one's own essence. At the center of the exploration is transmediality, as a staging and spiritual tool to enter into intra- and transpersonal relationships. The performance also opens up the possibility of discovering the consciousness-expanding potential of hybrid perceptual phenomena and of questioning aesthetic experiences as spiritual insights.

performance Bar Gonen, Lina Hartmann, Friederike Heine, Ana Szopa

concept / direction Katharina Simons

video Fanny Hagmeier

animation Elisabeth Drache, Vesela Stanoeva

sounddesign Jan Pfizer

szenography / costume Vanessa Vadineanu

dramaturgy Miriam Sapio, Patrycja Maslowska

light Sasa Batnozic

video mapping Miho Kasama

assistance Paula Zeiler, Zarah, Christina Streich

outside eye Salome Kehlenbach

photo credits Julian Fertl

duration 60 min

venue Tafelhalle, Nürnberg

premiere February 2024