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| News 01.08.2026 |
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| RESONANZRAUM 40 - advance ticket sales begin on 1 August, exclusively for you |
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Dear readers,
Almost forty years after the founding of THEATER DER KLÄNGE, we are opening our rehearsal studio in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort – the space where, since 1990, each of our productions has taken its initial shape. The project is called RESONANZRAUM 40, a research and development initiative in collaboration with Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts (kiu), running from October 2026 to June 2027. It is neither a museum nor a retrospective in the conventional sense. It is an archive that you do not simply view, but walk through, listen to and experience.
Using video mapping, three walls and the ceiling of the studio become projection surfaces, whilst a spatial speaker arrangement opens up the soundscape. Historical recordings spanning four decades of stage work are paired with a new sound composition created specifically for this space. Visitors entering the Resonanzraum move freely between the gallery and the dance floor – forty years are condensed into a single hour that stands on its own.
Over nine weekends between October 2026 and June 2027, this installation will become a stage: ensemble members will perform suites and complete works from forty years of repertoire, lasting between forty and 120 minutes per evening, immediately following a private viewing of the installation. Visitors will first see the archive – then its embodiment on stage.
RESONANZRAUM 40 is hereby officially announced. Public promotion of the project will not begin until September. As a newsletter subscriber, you have a head start: advance ticket sales for the nine performance weekends will begin on 1 August at "rausgegangen.de". This effectively gives you a one-month pre-sale privilege before the general public is informed. Make the most of this head start: there are only sixty places available per event – the rehearsal studio is not a theatre with three hundred seats, but the workspace itself.
A word of explanation regarding ticket prices, as we want you to know what you’re paying for. Our public funding bodies require us to pay minimum fees for rehearsals and minimum performance fees for the shows. Plays with few performers therefore cost less to attend than those with a large cast – the price is determined not by demand, but by the cast. Every ticket purchased directly funds the performers who will be on stage that evening. In doing so, you are not only supporting a single evening’s performance, but also our ‘theatre’, which receives only marginal funding compared to municipal cultural institutions – whilst maintaining at least the same high standards of quality, which we consistently deliver.
The 2026/2027 Programme
23 - 25 October 2026 - The Mechanical Ballet
6 - 8 November 2026 - The Silver Prince
1 - 3 January 2027 - Estampie & Theater der Klaenge (staged concert)
14 - 17 January 2027 - TRIAS – The Triadic Ballet
12 - 14 February 2027 - SUITE intermediale
19 - 21 March 2027 - The Lacquer Ballet
16 - 18 April 2027 - Heinrich Heine’s Le Grand
28 - 30 May 2027 - West-Land-Dances
25 - 27 June 2027 - Coastal Souls
Contact: info@theaterderklaenge.de or +49 (0)211 462746.
Tickets available from 1 August via
https://rausgegangen.de/locations/theater-der-klange-probenstudio/
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| RESONANZRAUM 40 |
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Immersive theatre |
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Another form of immersive theatre – a look back over forty years
The rehearsal studio on Pempelforter Straße is not a place you would seek out from the outside. But anyone who has ever stepped inside – as a dancer, an actor, a sound artist, or even as a spectator at one of our rehearsals, which sometimes went on late into the evening – knows this:
this space is the Theatre of Sounds. This is where it all began. This is where it begins again.
In 2026, we will be entering our fortieth year. The obvious response would be an anniversary programme: a retrospective, photos, applause, a programme booklet. We are planning that – but with a twist.
The project
RESONANZRAUM 40 transforms our rehearsal studio into a self-contained, self-sustaining experiential space. Four projection surfaces – both side walls, the front wall, the ceiling – will be used. A spatial sound system completes the acoustic space. The result is neither a film nor a concert: a journey lasting around fifty minutes through forty years of theatre work, which starts at the touch of a button and leaves the visitor in the space – standing, sitting, lying down, wandering about.
Thirty-three productions. Six thematic clusters. Prologue and epilogue. One central principle: sustainability in action. Not a single new costume, not a single new prop. Everything comes from our stock – worn, used, created in this very space. The past does not return. It was never gone.
Our collaboration with storyLab kiU
To this end, we are working with storyLab kiU at the Dortmunder U – one of Germany’s leading development centres for immersive media. kiU provides us with a working environment, support services and technical expertise. What emerges from this is not a service-provider relationship. It is a workshop: two institutions that speak different languages – one the language of theatre, the other that of code and audio-visual projection technology – and which must not translate these languages, but speak them simultaneously. That is the essence of what we mean by symbiosis.
The schedule
The development phase runs from May to September 2026. The opening is planned for October 2026 – kicking things off will be the Bauhausbühnen Suite, excerpts from our ‘Mechanical Ballet’, rehearsed time and again in this very space. After that, RESONANZRAUM 40 will be accessible as a walk-in installation three to four days a week; with live events taking place at least once a month: performances, workshops, symposia. The installation will run until June 2027.
A request
Who would be interested in accompanying the creative process – as a visitor, a discussion partner, a collaborator, or a sponsor of a live event? A brief reply is all that’s needed. No forms, no platforms. Just an email to us. |
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