Midnight Zone

Midnight Zone is a performance about the deep sea, that space where sunlight no longer penetrates. In this completely dark environment exposed to high pressure, our perceptions of time, body, and orientation shift.

In a space that blurs our sense of our own bodies, fish sounds, machine noises, and distant earthquakes permeate the atmospheric conditions of the largest habitat on Earth. Performers move like alien beings, at once part of nature and a reflection of human intervention. With every movement, visitors influence the web of sound, shadow, and choreography, becoming part of the ecosystem they are observing.

Midnight Zone makes the fragile system of the deep sea a sensory experience: where life may have begun, where time flows differently and various processes can take centuries, human influence is increasingly noticeable. The work allows dream and reality, human and nature, surface and depth to merge. It invites us to leave linear concepts of time behind and feel alternative rhythms. Rhythms that are in harmony with planetary cycles and counteract the accelerated pace of the Anthropocene.

supervision by: Constanze Fischbeck und Susanne Kriemann

Concept, scenography and costumes: Josephine Gerhardt

Performers: Maria Lopez, Luna Girard, Josephine Gerhardt; Sound Design: Anna Hokešová;

Light: Eloísa Kölln; Graphic: Levi Zimmermann; Photos: Ines Bohnert; Video: Quirin Thalhammer