Breathe/Listen

If you are out at this hour and in this place, it is because you want something that you do not have; and I can give you that something.
Bernard-Marie Koltès, In the solitude of the cotton fields

A bridge at night.

Five figures dance, speak and sing beneath it. They tell their stories – true and invented – and explore their longings together.

Based on Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, three dancers, a singer and a narrator explore the themes of the body, intimacy and the desire for connection. A 60-minute performance is created under the Bayreuth High Bridge, in which different voices weave a multi-layered web around a contemporary practice of desire.

Concept, direction, text: Hendrik Arns
Concept, set: Tamara Stotz
Choreography and performance: Dagmar Hunzinger, Mia Helena Jacob, Elli Treptow, Hendrik Arns
Vocals: Brit-Tone Müllertz
Location: Hochbrücke Bayreuth (access/parking via Sophian-Kolb-Straße 12, 95448 Bayreuth / RL Fundgrube Leißler GmbH)
Performances: 26 July 2025 and 01 August 2025, both 10 pm
Duration: 60 minutes

Admission free

Publication: Passagen Verlag Vienna

ATMEN/LAUSCHEN takes place without the traditional division into auditorium and stage, so that the audience moves with the performance. There is only a limited number of seats available at
and otherwise standing room only. Please make sure you wear sturdy shoes.

Co-production of Bayreuther Festspiel GmbH and lost://naheta Frankfurt GbR

With the kind support of: