Nachtstück N°8

With Nachtstück No. 8, O-Team invites the audience to spend an entire night together. The performance begins in the evening and concludes in the morning with a shared breakfast. The space resembles a dormitory: cots, nightshirts, slippers. Mobile phones are put away; everyday life is left outside.

Over the course of the night, a carefully composed ritual unfolds through a sequence of processions, music, objects, light, scents, and quiet actions. While some guests fall asleep, the performance continues in their dreams. Live-produced music, analogue sounds, and visual compositions reflect states of fatigue, euphoria, meditative calm, and exhaustion.

At its core is the conscious experience of the night — a state that usually remains hidden in everyday life. Night Piece creates a space for intimacy, vulnerability, and community, and asks what can emerge when time, wakefulness, and togetherness are renegotiated.

A Night as Ritual: O-Team invites you to Nachtstück No. 8

O-Team has been developing visually striking, sensuous and at the same time highly conceptual performance formats since 2007. The core team around Nina Malotta and Samuel Hof creates theatrical rituals and states of exception that are not meant to be merely observed, but physically experienced by the audience. Their work moves between performance, puppet and object theatre, visual theatre and immersive formats – often interdisciplinary, always idiosyncratic.

O-Team’s work is marked by a precise handling of material, space and time. The group designs elaborate stage environments and objects, developing each form consistently from its conceptual focus. O-Team is interested in liminal experiences: situations in which perception shifts, attention intensifies and a sense of community temporarily emerges anew.

Practical Informations

• Night Piece lasts the entire night and ends with a shared breakfast. Please only attend if you are able and willing to stay for the full duration of the night.
• Limited capacity (The exact number of people will be announced soon)
• A camp bed with blanket and pillow will be provided for each participant.
• Please wear or bring comfortable, long clothing (changing facilities available on site).
• Don’t forget to bring a toothbrush, a small towel, and anything else you may need for the night.

Team:

• Artistic Direction / Concept: Nina Malotta, Samuel Hof
• Performance / Installation: Nina Malotta, Samuel Hof, Marius Alsleben, Martina Wegener, Frederic Ehlers
• Live Music: Moritz Finkbeiner
• Dramaturgy: Antonia Beermann
• Production: Lisa Ticar, Markus Niessner
• Graphic Design: Markus Niessner
• Press & Public Relations: Kathrin Stärk

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