Climate catastrophes, wars, pandemics, collapsing democracies, right-wing threat— disaster piles on disaster! We stare at it, freeze, fall into escapist trances or dream of virtual worlds. In GHOSTS it’s 5 past 12 – witching hour – and we see impossible stories about broken futures, marginalized and dispossessed bodies: phantom bodies, phantom property, phantom pain, phantom appropriation. GHOSTS invites you to deal with the ghosts of patriarchy, the humanistic legacy and its necropolitics, as well as the traces of colonial capitalism on your own body, the images in our heads and possible other worlds, and to deal with queer emancipatory spirits to band together. They are unruly characters who bring missed opportunities of the past to life and tell them further. Close to the audience and accompanied by artistic audio description, there are horrifyingly fantastic encounters of a different kind, fluid collective moments of mourning, humorously erotic goosebumps, and bizarrely liberating visions from a tangibly distant future. Welcome to our bodies!

»Every generation confronts the task of choosing its past. Inheritances are chosen as much as they are passed on.«

Saidiya V. Hartman

Credits

Team GHOSTS

CHOREOGRAPHY / ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Ursina Tossi

CO-CHOREOGRAPHY / DANCE
Gustavo de Oliveira Leite, Pin-Chen Hsu, Borys Jaźnicki, Rose Marie Lindstrøm, Emma Jane Howley, Jeff Pham, Omar Torrico Real

AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Reta Schulze

DRAMATURGY
Caroline Röhmer

SOUND
Lena Geue

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR / CO-CHOREOGRAPHY
Diego de la Rosa

STAGE
Lukas Noll

CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANCE
Mel Brinkmann

ADVISER AUDIODESCRIPTION & ACCESS
Isabella Brawata

Ursina Tossi GHOSTS

GHOSTS is a relaxed dance performance for people with and without visual impairments with integrated audio description in German and a collaboration with Stadttheater Gießen

Premiere September 30 2023 
Bahnhofstraße 9 Stadttheater Gießen | CLICK HERE