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
Dramaturgy: Bastian Zimmermann
Outside Eye: Jette Büchsenschütz
Access Dramaturgy: Athena Lange
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

Production: Laurence Carlier, Paula Haefele
Communications and Distribution: Astrid Rostaing
Press and PR: Apricot Productions
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

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
With the support of Musikfonds, Région Hauts-de-France, Impuls neue Musik together with gvl (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten), Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique)
In cooperation with Ballhaus Ost Berlin, LOUDsoft – musical experiences for children, young people and adults, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens as part of the residency support program of the DRAC Hauts-de-France, 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.