Julika Mayer & Karoline Hoffmann (DE)

There’s gold, there’s light, there’s air, there it sparkles, there it floats, you also get out of breath sometimes, there it’s empty, there it’s full, there it’s there, then it’s gone, then there are many, then I’m alone. How can that be? (Come in everyone.) Children are best at asking questions. And observe. And try things out, too: together we discover a glittering world _ In „DING.” (THING.) we let ourselves be surprised by the stories that emerge. Together we see how something comes into being, (almost) by itself. In search of chance, a piece emerges, with body and material, sound and light.

Julika Mayer comes from Erlangen. She studied figure theatre at the renowned university in Charleville-Mézières, directed the company “Là Où” with Renaud Herbin from 1999 to 2011, and is now a professor of figure theatre at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. Karoline Hoffmann studied Contemporary Puppetry at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch” Berlin and was a permanent ensemble member at the Theater Chemnitz until 2021, where this production for the very young was created.