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Planet [wanderer]
Date details
- Date Friday, 04/December/2026 19:30 ( 1 more date )
- Venue Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Große Bühne
- Address Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin-Wilmersdorf
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Part of:
Planet [wanderer]
Performing Arts Season 2026/2027
![Planet [wanderer] – Eine Person mit weißer Flüssigkeit umringt, so in Bewegung, das vom ganzen Körper her Fäden gezogen werden.](https://imgproxy.berlinonline.net/ij-qzVW_TKqxxYv7_uZp5FBVHvR4oIs0LKJHu-Q607A/resizing_type:fit/width:1000/height:500/gravity:ce/enlarge:0/q:70/cb:2026062913/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb3B1bGEtbWlkZGxld2FyZS5zMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2JvLW1pZGRsZXdhcmUvYm8uYmRlX2NoYW5uZWwuZXZlbnQvaW1hZ2VzLzE3MS80MTA3NWYwZS05ODI3LTc3NGYtMGJhYi1jZjY3ZWU0ZWFiZTYuanBn.jpg)
Planet [wanderer] – Eine Person mit weißer Flüssigkeit umringt, so in Bewegung, das vom ganzen Körper her Fäden gezogen werden.
© Yoshikazu Inoue
A luminous field, eight wandering bodies: in Planet [wanderer], Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa create a cosmic choreography suspended between ritual and vision. Dance, material, sound and light merge into a sensuous meditation on movement, vulnerability and our planet Earth.
A dark field begins to glow like a starry sky. Eight bodies drift across it, subjected to the weight of gravity and the resistance of materials, yet in constant motion. The dancers traverse an ever-changing landscape of black sand, smoke, liquids and light. Their bodies encounter elements that shape, slow, limit, or engulf them. The piece is inspired by the Japanese creation myth Kojiki, in particular the section on Ashihara-no-nakatsukuni, the “land of reeds,” whose swaying, seemingly endless movement becomes a choreographic principle. Planet [wanderer] unfolds as a cosmic ritual: a choreography of wandering, searching, the precarious balance between humans and the earth. The title refers to the Greek root of “planet” – planaomai, to roam – opening up a space of experience in which bodies become wandering celestial bodies.
In the collaboration between the French-Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet and the Japanese sculptor Kohei Nawa, dance and visual art merge into a shared language of image and movement. The stage becomes the living surface of a planet that responds to every touch. Between excessive choreography and sculptural experiment, a sensual cosmogony emerges: a world in the making, fragile and resistant at once. Jalet continuously confronts the performers with material, gravity and instability. States tip over; bodies become liquid, mineral, dusty or tectonic. Individual impulses interlock, affect one another, and merge into collective formations. Migration, transformation, and vulnerability are not narrated but experienced physically. Planet [wanderer] presents a tragic love story between humanity and the planet – intense, visceral, and of archaic force.
Damien Jalet is among the most influential choreographers of our time. Born in Belgium and based in Brussels, he is internationally renowned for monumental works at the intersection of dance, visual art, film and pop culture. His choreographies – including collaborations with Marina Abramović, Madonna and Luca Guadagnino – are conceived as corporeal landscapes in which movement becomes a sculptural experience. With Planet [wanderer], Jalet continues this signature approach while articulating a powerful reflection on our existence on a planet that is itself in motion. Since their first joint project, VESSEL, he has enjoyed an ongoing collaboration with Japanese sculptor Kohei Nawa, driven by a shared fascination with the transformation of matter into movement and bodies into living sculptures.
Artistic Team
Damien Jalet – Concept, Choreography
Kohei Nawa – Concept, Scenography
Tim Hecker – Music
Yukiko Yoshimoto – Lighting
Sruli Recht – Costumes
Xavier Jacquot – Sound Design Collaboration
Alexandra Hoàng Gilbert – Assistant to the Choreography
Catalina Navarrete Hernández – Outside Eye
With
Shawn Ahern, Karima El Amrani, Aimilios Arapoglou, Francesco Ferrari, Vinson Fraley, Christina Guieb, Astrid Sweeney, Ema Yuasa
A dark field begins to glow like a starry sky. Eight bodies drift across it, subjected to the weight of gravity and the resistance of materials, yet in constant motion. The dancers traverse an ever-changing landscape of black sand, smoke, liquids and light. Their bodies encounter elements that shape, slow, limit, or engulf them. The piece is inspired by the Japanese creation myth Kojiki, in particular the section on Ashihara-no-nakatsukuni, the “land of reeds,” whose swaying, seemingly endless movement becomes a choreographic principle. Planet [wanderer] unfolds as a cosmic ritual: a choreography of wandering, searching, the precarious balance between humans and the earth. The title refers to the Greek root of “planet” – planaomai, to roam – opening up a space of experience in which bodies become wandering celestial bodies.
In the collaboration between the French-Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet and the Japanese sculptor Kohei Nawa, dance and visual art merge into a shared language of image and movement. The stage becomes the living surface of a planet that responds to every touch. Between excessive choreography and sculptural experiment, a sensual cosmogony emerges: a world in the making, fragile and resistant at once. Jalet continuously confronts the performers with material, gravity and instability. States tip over; bodies become liquid, mineral, dusty or tectonic. Individual impulses interlock, affect one another, and merge into collective formations. Migration, transformation, and vulnerability are not narrated but experienced physically. Planet [wanderer] presents a tragic love story between humanity and the planet – intense, visceral, and of archaic force.
Damien Jalet is among the most influential choreographers of our time. Born in Belgium and based in Brussels, he is internationally renowned for monumental works at the intersection of dance, visual art, film and pop culture. His choreographies – including collaborations with Marina Abramović, Madonna and Luca Guadagnino – are conceived as corporeal landscapes in which movement becomes a sculptural experience. With Planet [wanderer], Jalet continues this signature approach while articulating a powerful reflection on our existence on a planet that is itself in motion. Since their first joint project, VESSEL, he has enjoyed an ongoing collaboration with Japanese sculptor Kohei Nawa, driven by a shared fascination with the transformation of matter into movement and bodies into living sculptures.
Artistic Team
Damien Jalet – Concept, Choreography
Kohei Nawa – Concept, Scenography
Tim Hecker – Music
Yukiko Yoshimoto – Lighting
Sruli Recht – Costumes
Xavier Jacquot – Sound Design Collaboration
Alexandra Hoàng Gilbert – Assistant to the Choreography
Catalina Navarrete Hernández – Outside Eye
With
Shawn Ahern, Karima El Amrani, Aimilios Arapoglou, Francesco Ferrari, Vinson Fraley, Christina Guieb, Astrid Sweeney, Ema Yuasa
Production revival 2023: Théâtre National de Bretagne, Centre Dramatique National (Rennes). Production creation 2021: Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse
Coproduction: Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (FR), Charleroi Danse (BE), Sandwich Inc. (JP), Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT), Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (JP), ROHM Theatre Kyoto (JP), Opéra de Rouen Normandie (FR), Kampnagel Hamburg (DE), Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève (CH), Nagelhus Schia Productions (NO)
With the support of Grand Marble and Matsushima Holdings Co., Ltd.
Cooperation: Kyoto University of the Arts – ULTRA SANDWICH Project #14 #15 #16 #17, Kyoto University – Takenaka University
Thanks to Théo Casciani, Prabda Yoon, Didier Deschamps and Fabienne Aucant
Nominated for the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2020; co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Coproduction: Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (FR), Charleroi Danse (BE), Sandwich Inc. (JP), Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT), Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (JP), ROHM Theatre Kyoto (JP), Opéra de Rouen Normandie (FR), Kampnagel Hamburg (DE), Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève (CH), Nagelhus Schia Productions (NO)
With the support of Grand Marble and Matsushima Holdings Co., Ltd.
Cooperation: Kyoto University of the Arts – ULTRA SANDWICH Project #14 #15 #16 #17, Kyoto University – Takenaka University
Thanks to Théo Casciani, Prabda Yoon, Didier Deschamps and Fabienne Aucant
Nominated for the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2020; co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
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