Music and dance meets ... Silence.

Choreographer Eva Baumann's new production tacet_ is inspired by the collective numbness that has gripped us in the face of the current global crises. It seems to contradict the breathless pace of an accelerated society to which we have become so accustomed. The word “tacet” is used in musical notation and means “silence” for the instrument or the singing voice.
In this immersive music-dance performance, four dancers and a cellist embark on a journey to find inner peace and interpersonal connection in a noisy, increasingly dystopian world.

But can communication succeed in silence? What physical resonance does silence have?

Concept, artistic direction, choreography: Eva Baumann
Dance, performance, co-creation: Aurora Bonetti, Bar Gonen, Yen Lee, Susanna Ylikoski
Musical concept, performance, cello, co-creation: Céline Papion
Music composition: Kuba Krzewiński, Caroline Shaw, Céline Papion
Lighting design: Nadja Weber
Production assistance: Pilar Murube (May 2025: Sophie Gisbertz)
Spatial concept, costume design: Eva Baumann
Technology: Nadja Weber, Gui Votteler
Graphics, layout: HuM-collective
Photography: Jan Hottmann, Zoia Domaskina


Tickets for Sat, 06.09.2025 here
Tickets for Sun, 07.09.2025 here
Remaining tickets at the box office (cash only):
20,- € reg. / 10,- € red. / 30,- € supporter ticket


tacet_ is a production by Cie. ZEIT/GEIST - Eva Baumann. Funded within the three-year concept funding of the City of Stuttgart, the Stiftung Erlebnis Kunst and the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart (FTTS). In cooperation with Kunstverein Wagenhalle and with the kind support of Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance e.V. Stuttgart and HuMBASEpartoutStuttgart. The conception of the ZEIT/GEIST trilogy was supported in 2021 by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Dance aid program. Special thanks to Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, the Center for Deep Listening / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, and BLOMST! Stuttgart.


Past dates at Projektraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle:

Fri, 30.05.2025, 8 pm (premiere)
Sat, 31.05.2025, 8 pm
Sun, 01.06.2025, 7 pm