Choreographer Magda Kachouche and her accomplices Alice Martins, Gaspard Guilbert and Bia Kaysel invite you on a transcendental journey between cultures, worlds, the dead and the living. Through a tender death dance celebrating life, an energetic field for reunion and reconciliation arises.  This sacred funeral ceremony floats on a deep yearning for rebirth and transforms grief into a raging, saving force. Close your eyes, open your heart and let yourself be carried away on the energy of this colourful requiem.

The rose of Jericho is the perfect symbol for a mourning process. It is the name of a desert plant said to be immortal. For years it can survive half-dead – or half-living? – and dehydrated. As soon as rain falls or the rose is watered, it blossoms again. Traces of death and loss also remain in our bodies and minds. A single tear can be enough to revive raw grief.

The danse macabre – dance of death – is a common artistic motif found in European folklore as well as in the late Middle Ages. It is an allegory of the levelling power of death: depicting a dance, a round, in which living figures are dragged to the grave by skeletons. The danse macabre blurs social boundaries and mocks them. Magda Kachouche breathes life into this ancient ritual to create a punk ceremony in which we celebrate with the living and the dead, the visible and the invisible, the past and the future.