Mab Cardoso / Cécile Bally: Now***For Real / The Sleep of Reason – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025
Mab Cardoso / Cécile Bally:
Now***For Real / The Sleep of Reason

Now***For Real / The Sleep of Reason
Mab Cardoso
Now***For Real
The body as a sound device, sound as a movement generator: as a choreographer, performer and composer Mab Cardoso interweaves performance art, electronic music beats, classical ballet and movement.
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Cécile Bally
The Sleep of Reason
Bally’s post-dramatic magic show opens the coffin of a modern vampire and examines the preconceptions and clichés of this figure. Can the stage maintain its magical potential when all tricks have been laid out in the open?
LET'S TALK ABOUT DANCE | JANUARy 15
feedback sessions after the show
Far removed from the classic discussion round, the festival invites the public to come exchange their ideas using interactive and participative formats in order to really grasp the essence of the performances.
Now***For Real
Duration 30 minutes CHOREOGRAphy, PERFORMANCE Mab Cardoso LIght Ricarda Köneke SOUND Eva Glitsch DRAMATURgy Rodrigo Garcia Alves
The Sleep of Reason
Duration 45 minutes CHOREOGRAphy Cécile Bally PERFORMANCE Cécile Bally, Julia Plawgo, Louise Trueheart LIght DESIGN Sandra Blatterer OUTSIDE EYE Asaf Aharonson
Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Thanks to Antonia Baehr and the HZT Berlin.
photo © Christian Scholz, Miriam Kongstad