by operationderkunste
ORDO FLUCTUS combines two powerful historical female voices: Hildegard von Bingen's medieval music drama Ordo Virtutum and Virginia Woolf's poetic novel The Waves.
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ORDO FLUCTUS – EINE CHOROPER
ORDO FLUCTUS – EINE CHOROPER
ORDO FLUCTUS – EINE CHOROPER
ORDO FLUCTUS – EINE CHOROPER
This atmospheric new composition for choir, a dancer, two actors, and three singers weaves mystical choral sounds with a multi-layered text collage.
This multisensory choral opera explores ritual as both a curse and a blessing: it gives structure to everyday life, yet through its constant repetition, people lose awareness of what they are actually doing. ORDO FLUCTUS tells the story of the awakening of awareness through ritual and the transformative power it holds.
Additional information
- Composition: Jakob Böttcher
- Access Dramaturgy: Lara Domke
- Stage Design: Marla Gaiser
- Direction: Alixe Durand Saint Guillain
- Costume Design: Lili Bernadette Hillerich
- Access Consulting: Silja Korn
- Direction: Ludmilla Mercier
- Production: Charlotte Riemann
- Musical Direction: Simon Scriba
operationderkuenste is an interdisciplinary music theater collective—like an opera house without a house. The group works anti-hierarchically, questions operatic conventions, and develops alternative working methods beyond established power structures. Their projects are based on intersectional feminism, anti-racism, and anti-ableism. All tasks are understood as artistic. The work is conceived as an ongoing research process for contemporary music theater. In 2023, with their deconstruction of Ethyl Smith's THE FOREST at the Theater der Zeit, they demonstrated how to "shake the constraints of heteropatriarchy" (Theater der Zeit).
Accessibility
The music theatre collective operationderkuenste already combines haptic, acoustic and visual forms of expression in the development of the piece and places a focus on integrated artistic audio description in order to enable reception with and without visual impairment.
A tactile tour will be offered 45 minutes before the performance begins. Please check in at the box office.
Access Friends will be on hand to assist with entry if needed. You can identify them by their pink safety vests with bells.
The performance includes an artistic audio description.
Assistance dogs are welcome. Please register dogs requiring extra space in advance by emailing tickets@td.berlin.
Please also note the general accessibility information for the TD.
A tactile tour will be offered 45 minutes before the performance begins. Please check in at the box office.
Access Friends will be on hand to assist with entry if needed. You can identify them by their pink safety vests with bells.
The performance includes an artistic audio description.
Assistance dogs are welcome. Please register dogs requiring extra space in advance by emailing tickets@td.berlin.
Please also note the general accessibility information for the TD.
Dates
March 2026
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