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
Spatial concept, costume design: Eva Baumann
Technology: Nadja Weber, Alexander Schmidt
Graphics, layout: HuM-collective (2025)
Photography: Jan Hottmann, Zoia Domaskina


Tickets: 

Friday, 24.04.2026 here
Saturday, 25.04.2026 here

Remaining tickets at the box office (cash only):
20,- € reg. / 12,- € red. 

As places are limited, we recommend booking via Rausgegangen Stuttgart. Combined tickets are also available, including one or two workshops, at standard and reduced rates.


SPECIAL – Workshops as part of “tacet_”

“Resonating Silence”: 25.04.2026, 3–4:30 PM

The workshop “Resonating Silence” with Eva Baumann invites participants to consciously listen to silence. Through working with the body and the voice, individual and collective spaces of resonance emerge, which we explore and create together.

“Cartographie Sensible”: 26.04.2026, 3–5:30 PM

The workshop “Cartographie Sensible” with Céline Papion invites participants to perceive a place not through scales and coordinates, but through the subjective experience of emotions, memories, sounds, and smells.
The workshop takes place mostly outdoors.

For both workshops:
Please bring warm clothing, a yoga mat, and a water bottle. Further information here.

Where: HuMBASEpartout
Contribution towards costs per workshop (excluding attendance at the performance): 18,- € / 12,- €
Instructor: Eva Baumann
Registration: office.cie.zeitgeist@gmail.com or bookable as a combined ticket with the performance of tacet_ at Rausgegangen

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.

The 2026 restaging is supported by the City of Stuttgart, the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene gUG, and the Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg (LaFT BW e.V.). LaFT BW e.V. is funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts.

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

Restaging in HuMBASE

Sat, 06.09.2025, 7 pm
Sun, 07.09.2025, 7 pm