“A‘beautiful soul’ sees evil and baseness all around it but fails to see to what extent it participates in the perpetuation of that same order of things. The point is not that the world isn’t really evil, the point is that we are part of this evil world.” – Alenka Zupançiç, on Hegel, ‘Too much of not enough’

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The Beautiful Souls is an exploration of perception - its social and political embodiments - and the ways in which we anticipate and give meaning to things. Together with 25 performers who are embedded among them, the audience are immersed in a sensorial dramaturgy that raises questions about the paradoxes of coexistence, ideology, desire, and the fragile boundaries between intimacy and alienation, love and hate; interdependency and antagonism.

Artistic Direction, Concept, Choreography: Grace Euna Kim
Performers (main): Manon Greiner, Dmytro Grynov, György Jellinek, Lena Kilchitskaya, Renan Manhaes
Performers (cosmos): Pauli Caldirola, Ana Sofia Calixto, Anna de Courcy, Timothy Crafti, Carolina Fanti, Selina Hack,
Amr Karkout, Tomoya Kawamura, Rebecca Kenny, Francisco Martinez Miranda, Cameryn Moore, Lea Pischke, Fernando Nicolás Pelliccioli, Madison Pomarico, Katherine Rojas, Johanna Ryynänen, Alessandra Sparano, Hana Stojaković, Carlos Osatinsky, Frida Yngvesson, Tamae Yoneda
Sound Design: Anto Modica
Production Management: Louisa Behr
Assistant: Patrycja Maslowska
Graphic Design: Sulki and Min
Sound Documentation: Diane Barbé
Photos and Video (hidden camera): Rachel Ashton, Philip Treschan, Valentin Wedde
Special Thanks: Philip Horst, Nora Amin, Matthias Mohr, Visar Morina
Cooperation: Haus der Statistik
Funding: NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.