Delhi, a dance

In the visiting room of a hospital, dancer Ekaterina fears for her mother who has cancer. She is joined by her mother's friend, a dance critic who is deeply impressed by a dance that has made Ekaterina famous. In the slums of New Delhi, among animal carcasses and the wounded, the young dancer has developed a dance in which she has processed her pain at the sight of misery in India. Ekaterina is also painfully waiting for her lover Andrej to decide whether or not to separate from his wife. But what if there were parallel universes in which events had a different outcome? Ivan Vyrypaev masterfully varies the same situation seven times and has the same people meet seven times in the hospital's visiting room. One of them dies seven times, but a different one each time. Vyrypaev sensitively traces the gap between the dying and the living - the pain, the pity, the compassion and the inability to suffer. Whether Ekaterina herself, her cancer-stricken mother, her friend, Ekaterina's lover and his wife - in the face of death they all struggle for truth, honesty, trust and fight against fear, guilt, jealousy and always find their way back to one thing: compassion is the real basis of human happiness. Following her acclaimed production of Simon Stone's MEDEA at Theater Freiburg, the young Lithuanian director Kamilė Gudmonaitė now works at Deutsches Theater Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele and Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. For the last season of Peter Carp's directorship, she returns to Freiburg to stage DELHI, A DANCE full of rhythm and poetry, turning the text itself into a dance. Sensual, light and truthful.