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»The Woman without a Shadow« is an incredibly musically overwhelming creation, and of course this is also reflected in the visuals.

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The images are created by the music alone.

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This creates images where you can say it has to be completely empty and open or dark or light. The music transports a lot of that.

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The stage design lives from great contrasts. A fairy-tale world, a very airy, unconcrete world - a shadowless world, in fact.

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And a very hard, concrete, dark world – this world of dyers.

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There is one deal and that is this fairytale layer: the purchase of the shadow.

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You have this dark, poisonous world where toxic substances are used, where bleaching takes place, where the substances are bleached for this upper world, which is made of pure white substances.

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Nevertheless, there is a connection between these places: an elevator. This elevator connects these places.

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And at some point, this elevator is also the Falcon House. A place where you can lose yourself in it, where you get stuck in a dream world, so to speak. Where you can't really explain exactly where you are now.

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The spaces, these two concrete worlds are dissolving more and more and more fairy-tale elements are coming in, such as shadows or a giant falcon with a 16-meter wingspan.

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The workshops - which are great - they built this fantastic falcon.

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And that's where the giant falcon comes in, for example. It then becomes a bit unreal or irrational and goes more into this subconscious and metaphorical sphere.

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It's about a very strong theme. The question of humanity and of meeting each other, meeting oneself, losing oneself, losing each other. That's what it's about.

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In the world of dyers, there's a really beautiful part where nothing actually happens on stage.

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The dyer is just sitting there watching TV and his wife is on the bed.

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A very sad mood, a very sad scene of two people who have lost each other.

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With incredibly beautiful but sad music. It's actually crazy, I've never experienced anything like it.

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There are two singers on stage who don't even sing and it carries you for three or four minutes and hits you emotionally.