RAU(E)NÄCHTE
– a moving audio piece
A performative installation between ritual and resonance
Between the last and the first breath of the year – where time slips through the cracks and certainties waver – we locate Rau(e)Nächte. The new production of the go plastic company unfolds a multilayered landscape of sound, body, and narration, inspired by the twelve mysterious nights between the years.
The Rauhnächte – once customs, superstitions, and protective rituals – are today a space for projection, resonance, and cultural memory. Rau(e)Nächte asks about the potential of this in-between space: What remains when the noise fades? What do we hear when we truly listen?
Twelve figures – developed from mythological, regional, queer-feminist, and pop-cultural fragments – take shape in two experiential spaces: as a walk-in installation and as a resonant, tangible search for traces along a performative table. Bodies become archives, voices carriers of memory, movement a ritual.
The staging interweaves contemporary dance with audio art and installation – accessible and multisensory. It opens spaces for blind and visually impaired audiences as well as for those willing to explore other modes of perception.
RAU(E)NÄCHTE is not a retelling, but an invitation: to pause, to feel, to listen together.
AUFFÜHRUNGEN
World Premiere:
December 12, 2025 • LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Leipzig
Further performances:
December 13 & 14, 2025 • LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Leipzig
January 29. / 30. / 31. • HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden, East Wing
February 04. & 05. 2026 • HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden, East Wing
Recommended age: 12+
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
CAST & CREW
Performance:
Cindy Hammer, Pernille Sonne, Momo F. Tanner
Authorship:
Cindy Hammer, Susan Schubert, Pernille Sonne, Momo F. Tanner
Choreography / Direction:
Cindy Hammer, Susan Schubert, Momo F. Tanner
Produktion Dramaturgy:
go plastic company
Music / Sound Design:
Johannes Till, go plastic company
Recording Direction / Sound Design / Mastering:
Johannes Gerstengarbe (Ballroom Studios)
Voices / Narrators:
Aïsha Konate, Annedore Bauer, Aziza Bou, Alma Schuster, Cindy Hammer, Fabian, Hannah Adomat, Johannes Gerstengarbe, Momo F. Tanner, Pernille, Sonne, Susan Schubert
Light Design:
Martin Mulik
Stage Sound Coordinator:
Christian Döpping
Stage / Material:
go plastic company in Kooperation mit Studierenden der HfBK Dresden
Technical Direction:
Benjamin Henrichs
Art Work / Photo:
Stephan Tautz
Accessibility Representative:
Pernille Sonne
Public Relations:
Thomas Natzschka
Social Media:
Lea Schweinfurth
Partners & Funders
A production of go plastic company in co-production with LOFFT – DAS THEATER and HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts.
Funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Funded by the City of Dresden – Office for Culture and Monument Preservation. Funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed with tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament. Funded by the City of Leipzig – Department of Culture.
With the kind support of: Ballroom Studios, minor pole e.V., TENZA, Pathos Munich, Schwere Reiter.