Christian Fries // AnXt / Das leere Land

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Christian Fries (Münster) AnXt / The Empty Land October 17. 2025 20:00

Premiere | Dance | Theater

Collective fears are on the rise: of war, climate catastrophes, pandemics. In the shadows of these publicly discussed fears lurk other fears, individual fears, often shamefully
hidden, like the fear of emptiness, loss of meaning, social ostracism and loneliness. Director Christan Fries - last seen at the Pumpenhaus with the projects POOR BOY ÄGISTH and PEREC: VERSUCH EINEN PLATZ IN PARIS ZU ERFASSEN - dedicates a dance and theater project to these fears, which everyone endures alone in their "empty land". These fears impose themselves. They paralyze. They block the breath. They make you tremble. Fries focuses on physical expression. He translates AnXt feelings into expressive dance and play scenes, giving them a form. And thus shows that it helps to communicate these deep fears.

Concept, direction, text, music Christian Fries Choreography Christian Fries and team Performers Kira Metzler (dance), Lotta Hackbeil (acting) Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Münster Co-production Theater im Pumpenhaus