About the production

Start

7:30 p.m.

End

9 p.m.

»When are we us, when do we become us, because we can't be us without each other? We are a place that only comes into being when the three of us are here together. I was not here, I was in other nows and places, but I was not us because we were not HERE.«

(from »HERE«)

What is the »we« of a community of people who are in the same room, but at different times? Or to put it another way: what connects us on this side and beyond our simultaneous physical presence? Is it our traces, legacies or assumptions? Is it consciousness, feelings or beliefs?

These and other questions are explored in the new dance theatre performance by US artist Andrew Schneider, which is inspired by Richard McGuire's graphic novel »HERE«. The book was recently made into a film by Robert Zemeckis starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. Theatre, performance, storytelling, dance, technology - Andrew Schneider and his two co-creators Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart and Joel Suárez Gómez masterfully combine all of these to bring the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous to the stage in real time.

We know what it's like to miss someone because they are no longer HERE. But what does it feel like to miss someone because they are no longer NOW? Together, the three tell the story of a single space across eons, where countless lives, dreams and travesties float through the present moment. Inspired by the theory of the simultaneous existence of multiple realities, quantum entanglement and utilising wireless in-ear technology, Schneider and co. explore the boundaries of relationships and storytelling. To do so, they focus their hyper-precise attention on the synchronisation of bodies in space over time – both cosmic and everyday.

The fact that the European premiere of this international production was awarded to the Lausitz Festival is thanks to the initiative of Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart, who has been a dancer, choreographer and idea generator at the Lausitz Festival since 2023. »HERE« was commissioned by the traditional US theatre Jacob's Pillow in the US state of Massachusetts and will premiere there when it reopens in July 2025, to be shown in Cottbus shortly afterwards.

»Hdy smy my my, hdy budźemy my my, dokelž njemóžemy bjez sebje my być?«

»Ga smy my, ga buźomy my, dokulaž njamóžomy byś my bźez nas?«

(citat z »HERE«)

»When are we us, when do we become us, because we can't be us without each other?«

(from »HERE«)

»HERE«: Dance theatre performance in English with German subtitles.

»HERE« was commissioned by Jacob's Pillow and the Moss Centre at Virginia Tech. Development support was provided by the Academy of Arts Berlin, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Williams College, The Mercury Store, the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, The Voxel, the John Michael Kohler Arts Centre Loghaven, PACE University and Lincoln Centre.

Additional support for the project was provided by Jefta van Dinther.

Special thanks to: ayo ohs, Bee Brown, Matthew Branham, Claudia Rightmire, Alec Sparks, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Anja Schmalfuß, Monika Grütters, Gabe Liberti, Wahlberg Motion Design

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Ticket information:

The performance on 30 August is sold out. Tickets are still available for 31 August.

Dance! With the »HERE« team! – Exclusive dance workshops

We are delighted to announce workshops as part of the »HERE« production.

Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart, Joel Suárez Gómez and Andrew Schneider will be present at all three workshops. The »HERE« trio will provide a deep insight into their magical work in developing precise choreographies and demonstrate their technical in-ear monitoring trick to give space to the moment while dancing.

Details on participation:

Professional workshop at Studio A, Radialsystem Berlin – Hosted by: Sasha Waltz & Guests

This workshop is aimed at professional dancers.

When? – Saturday, 23 August 2025, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Where? – Studio A, Radialsystem, Berlin

Admission: free

Note: Places are almost fully booked.

Registration: mmt.margaux@gmail.com – directly via choreographer Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart

Workshop at Kulturfabrik Hoyerswerda – Hosted by: Kulturfabrik Hoyerswerda

This workshop is for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the dance universe of »HERE«.

When? – Saturday, 23 August 2025, 5:30–8 p.m.

Where? – Kulturfabrik Hoyerswerda

Clothing/shoes: Bring comfortable clothes.

Admission: free

Registration: kuenstler@lausitz-festival.eu

Professional workshop at the Cottbus State Theatre – Hosted by: Dance ensemble of the Cottbus State Theatre

This workshop is aimed at dancers from Lusatia. The main aim of this event is to bring together the dance ensemble of the Cottbus State Theatre, which is organising the afternoon, and the freelance scene in Lusatia.

When? – Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 2–5 p.m.

Where? – Ballet studio, Cottbus State Theatre

Admission: free

Registration: kuenstler@lausitz-festival.eu

Lausitz Festival 2025 – HERE (Behind the Scenes)

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Choreografie, Performance & more

Andrew Schneider

Andrew Schneider is a performer, author and interactive electronics artist. Since 2003, he has been creating original works for theatre, dance, sound, video and installations.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from Illinois Wesleyan University and a master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. His interest, and that of his artistic partners, lies not only in the aesthetic experience, but also in the question of what power structures exist in the spaces in which they work and how they can change systems that they perceive as unjust.

Schneider has taught master classes in technology and performance at Bowdoin, Carleton, and Connecticut College, held a professorship at Brown University as part of the Brown Arts Initiative in 2019, and was a visiting fellow in theatre arts and performance studies. He has received numerous grants for his work and is a member of the ONX art incubator in New York City. Repeated collaborations with The TEAM, Lars Jan / Early Morning Opera, Annie Saunders, David Dorfman Dance, Hotel Savant, and Fischerspooner / Casey Spooner.

Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart

Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart was born in Paris in 1991 and lives in Berlin as a dancer, performer and choreographer. She studied acting, dance and piano at the Grenoble Conservatory.

In 2013, she received her bachelor's degree in dance interpretation from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. She works with renowned choreographers and companies such as Sasha Waltz & Guests, MOUVOIR (Stéphanie Thiersch), Propagande C (Simon Tanguy) and Andrew Schneider. From 2019 to 2021, she was a member of the Political Voices Institute at the Maxim Gorki Theater.

She is a guest lecturer, rehearsal director and artist at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and at Folkwang University, the Compañia nacional de danza Venezuela and the Compañia nacional de danza Cuba.

Her own pieces, »Corps du délit« and »Named after«, have toured throughout Europe. She choreographed Karlheinz Stockhausen's »Stimmung« and Mauricio Kagel's »Staatstheater« for Opera Lab Berlin at Ballhaus Ost (Berlin) and at the German National Theatre in Weimar. The pieces »lost time to come« and »the absent« were created in collaboration with composer Haggai Cohen-Milo, with whom she co-directed the dance section of the Lausitz Festival and created the music dance theatre pieces »Gletscher« (2023) and »Stille Post – lauter Träume« (2024).

Together with her close collaborator Joel Suárez Gómez and a multidisciplinary and international team, she continues to develop her own performative language.

Joel Suárez Gómez

Joel Suárez Gómez was born in Holguin, Cuba, in 1988. He began dancing at the age of nine at the Escuela Elemental de Ballet Alejo Carpentier and completed his training at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet de la Habana in classical ballet, Cuban modern dance and folklore. He then danced with the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) and worked with Alicia Alonso, Loipa Araujo, Aurora Bosh, Azari Plisetski, Lázaro Carreño, Fernando Pi and Goyo Montero, among others.

In 2008, he left the BNC to dance as a soloist with the Cuban company Danza Contemporanea (DCC). There he worked with renowned choreographers and participated in workshops and performances by Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, for whom he worked as an assistant and in whose piece »Casi« he also danced. During his time at the DCC, Joel Suárez Gómez toured Cuba, Latin America, the USA, Australia and Europe, performing at venues such as the Gran Teatro de La Habana, the Auditorium Nacional de Mexico, the Teatro Opera Nova in Bydgoski Poland, Sadler's Wells Theatre, the Mercat de les Flors, the Teatro Real de Madrid and the Joyce Theater. He gave body technique workshops at the DCC and at the Havana Dance School.

In recent years, his diverse artistic interests have led him down new paths parallel to dance. He was invited to the 11th Bienal de Artes Plásticas de La Habana and worked on a project at the Hamburg Media School as an assistant director and actor.

Joel Suárez Gómez has been working with Sasha Waltz since 2013.