here ≠ there
Premiere13.11.2025, Kulturzentrum Pavillon, Hannover
artistic direction / choreographyMónica García Vicente
DancerLevente Bálint, Davide Sioni
Music / compositionMelissa Wedekind
production managementYara Eid
DramaturgyCarolin Schaefer
CostumeRomina Medrano
Stage design / Light DesignKristina Schmidt
TechnologyFabian Esch
Social Media / VideoLaura Nicole Viganó
GraphicMaïté Müller
PhotosPeter Hoffmann-Schoenborn, Fabian Esch
sponsored byLANDESHAUPTSTADT HANNOVER KULTURBÜRO, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, STIFTUNG NIEDERSACHSEN, Sparkasse Hildesheim Goslar Peine, Stiftung Edelhof Ricklingen – V. J. V. der Osten
HERE ≠ THERE is a contemporary dance performance about hope in the face of a world in crisis. Inspired by Byung-Chul Han’s *The Spirit of Hope*, the piece creates a dynamic space that does not provide answers but rather poses questions: Where can hope grow? Through their bodies, closeness, and distance, two performers explore the transitions between the digital and real worlds. In conjunction with live music and lighting design, a fragile landscape unfolds, inviting the audience to think along, feel along, and move along—both inwardly and outwardly. Here, hope appears not as a destination, but as a driving force that reveals itself in the moment—between heaviness and lightness, searching and longing.
HERE ≠ THERE is an invitation to enter new realms of possibility and to explore a fragile sense of hope together—beyond simple truths, yet full of intensity and openness.
”
we carry the entire universe
in our back pockets,
but we don’t know how to handle it.
In this work, I don’t want to provide any definitive
answers, because I see
the search for hope as a journey.
what’s important is that we set out on that journey.
”
we carry the entire universe
in our back pockets,
but we don’t know how to handle it.
In this work, I don’t want to provide any definitive
answers, because I see
the search for hope as a journey.
what’s important is that we set out on that journey.
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Mónica García Vicente
© Peter Hoffmann-Schoenborn, Fabian Esch