Dust

“For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” – The Bible

“We are like the spider. We weave our life and then move along in it. We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream. This is true for the entire universe.” – The Upanishads

We are in a constant state of falling apart – a slow dying or turning into dust. We lose parts of ourselves and add them to a collective body of dust that includes other beings and their shedding: hairs, grains, pollen, powdered stars, synthetic fibres, minerals, tyre particles and dust mites. Dust is dissolution and decay, but also the fertile ground for ever-renewing life. Dust permeates everything and defies any idea of wholeness, permanence, enclosure or control. Dust is an interdisciplinary project blending object theatre, visual art, performance and music theatre. We witness a space – a home – that slowly crumbles. As we crumble, too. As our world disintegrates – ecosystems, culture, social structures, dreams.

Dust is a performative meditation on impermanence, death and decay. A theatrical devotion, a vanitas still life, a ritual act of shedding the ballast of civilisation – a release, a peeling away, a molting. Dust is beauty, calm and serenity.

Premiere: 27. November 2025
more dates: 28.+29.11.2025
Venue: Theater Rampe, Stuttgart

Team
Artistic direction / concept / space: Samuel Hof, Nina Malotta
Performance / objects: Antje Töpfer, Marius Alsleben, Nina Malotta
Music: Michael Fiedler, Marius Alsleben
Outside eye: Bastian Sistig, Yara Richter
Production / Graphic Design / Fotos: Markus Niessner
Assistant: Kristina Arlekinova

Dust is a production by O-Team in cooperation with Theater Rampe. Funded by the City of Stuttgart and the State Association of Independent Dance and Theatre Professionals Baden-Württemberg e.V. with support from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg. With kind support from Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V.