Conzept, Choreography: Ester Ambrosino
Dance: Martin Angiuli, Veronica Bracaccini, Daniel Medeiros, Phaedra Pisimisi
Music, performance: Yannis Pisimisis
Stage, Costume: Alexander Grüner
Choreography assistance: Robert Przybyl
Light: Friedrich Zarft
Production management: Susanne Ogan
Photo: Susann Nuernberger

„The sea will always be there. It connects the yesterday with the morning. It has already seen everything.“
In Ester Ambrosino’s current production, the sea is a place of longing and an essential part of the memories of an old man whose daily life and rhythm have been shaped by the sea for decades: hopes, suffering and melancholy. The sea is an ambivalent force – it caresses and carries, it connects, it nourishes and touches. But it also swallows, separates and threatens. Its vastness seduces the soul, its depth confronts man with his most primal fears. Even though over the course of thousands of years the sea has been found, it still demonstrates its immense power time and again. When the water is the scene of suffering and death, it leaves deep wounds and scars in the collective consciousness. The dancers experience how powerful a respectful connection with the sea can be and how it transforms distance and strangeness into trust. The moving stage production examines the influence of the sea on people and society and looks at the continental mentality of Central Europe.

A collaboration between the Tanztheater Erfurt and the ECHODRAMA Cultural Group from Athens, funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia, the City of Erfurt and the Sparkassenstiftung Erfurt.