“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’

“The Beautiful Souls” is an exploration of perception - its political embodiments - and the ways in which we anticipate and give meaning to things. Together with 25 performers who are embedded (anonymous) among them, the audience are immersed in (and therefore co-creators of) a sensorial dramaturgy that raises questions about the paradoxes of co-existence, ideology, desire, and the fragile boundaries between love and hate; co-dependency and antagonism.

“The Beautiful Souls" is the third of an ongoing series that explores symbolic violence and the body as a site of resistance in crisis. The first “A Prelude to the Last” (2018) questioned potentialities of the falling body to open empathy and invoke action among strangers. “Dance Party (the apocalypse is disappointing)” (2019), the second iteration addressed psycho-corporeal (imaginary) violence as a means to decode ideologies of the body and reinvent ways of being together. This third and most recent work The Beautiful Souls takes as its focus the politics of perception and the violence of the encounter with the Other.

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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

Undercover Camera: Rachel Ashton, Philip Treschan, Valentin Wedde

Special Thanks: Philip Horst, Nora Amin, Matthias Mohr, Visar Morina

The Beautiful Souls has been generously supported by the 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.