NEW WORK 2026

A floating light holds the space in quiet suspension. A breathing sound makes time audible. Bodies meet, intertwine, and gently release.

Alexandra Waierstall’s new work unfolds at the intersection of dance, sculpture, and space. Rita McBride’s sculpture Arena Seating is integrated into the choreographic field, becoming part of the dancers’ evolving constellations. Within an environment co-created with lighting designer Caty Olive and composer Volker Bertelmann, Seconds in Clouds invites the audience to sense how living together becomes perceptible through subtle, often fleeting moments of proximity, attention, and withdrawal.

Ever-shifting and full of shape, Seconds in Clouds unfolds time and presence. Light and sound hold bodies in a tender, shimmering rhythm – inviting the audience into shared suspension.

Seconds in Clouds is a mid-scale choreographic environment for theatres and museums in which time, bodies, light, and sculpture co-compose a shared space of attention, activating space as a living, breathing system.

Choreography, Concept: Alexandra Waierstall
; Dance, Collaboration: Alfonso Bordi, Amy Josh, Eftychia Stefanou, Karolina Szymura, Lukasz Przytarski, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, TingAn Ying, Yi-Chi Lee
; Sculpture: Rita McBride
; Music: Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka
; Sound design: Alexandra Waierstall
; Light and stage design: Caty Olive; 
Costumes, stage: Alexandra Waierstall, Horst Weierstall
; Dramaturgical Support: Judith Jaeger, Matthias Quabbe
; Artistic Production Manager: Judith Jaeger
; Production Manager: Alfonso Bordi
; Communications Manager, distribution: Amy Josh

Production: Noema Dance Works e.V.; Coproduction: tanzhaus nrw; Cooperation: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Bozar. Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; Supported by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (Spitzenförderung Tanz 2024-2026), Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Kunststiftung NRW, Botschaft der Republik Zypern in Berlin, Kulturabteilung und das Kulturministerium der Republik Zypern, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.