27–29 AUGUST 2026
Monopol Berlin, Germany · private preview

Duration: 66 minutes, no interval

Private preview at Monopol Berlin
27–29 August 2026

CREATIVE TEAM

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Based on Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
Director Maxim Didenko
Choreographer Béatrice Larrivée
Libretto Dmitry Repin & Maxim Didenko
Set & Costume Galya Solodovnikova
Music Paul Träumer
Video Oleg Mikhailov
Light Pavel Zmunchila
General Producers Dmitry Repin, Varvara Melnikova
Executive Producers Anastasiia Gaiduk, Kseniia Ignatova
Set & Costume Assistant Arina Kiryanova
Sewing Workshop Nadezhda Zamarayeva, Andrei Glukharev, Xenia Rommel
Hair Maria Salapina
Make-up & Hair Mila Antonenko
Technical Director Stanislav Shamshev
Stage Manager Kim Manuel Walz
Assistant Stage Manager Ilia Kuznetsov
Stagehand Vladimir Kepler
Lighting Operator / Programmer Iurii Galkin / Light & Q Lab
Acting CTO / Technical Developer Anton Kochnev
PR & Guest Manager Angela Fegers with Kasper Jakobsen

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PERFORMERS

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Holden Cole, Gerard Jover Gutiérrez, Yume Takojima, Rodrigo Lopez Ordonez, Mia Bourhis, Gal Zusmanovich, Mila Levy, Adi Ben Asher, Annika Verplancke, Angel Borrego Garcia, Fernando Hernandez, Jasmine Kahn, Sam Amey, Margarida Silva

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Produced and created by Improbable Arts
Co-production Orsolina28 Art Foundation
Supported by Alexander Motrenko, RR Capital and others

The first stage adaptation of Aldous Huxley's 1954 essay The Doors of Perception: a full-length, non-verbal work for 13 dancers. Sixteen choreographic scenes move between full sensory immersion and reflective stillness – the body overwhelmed, the mind watching.

Huxley argued that the brain does not produce consciousness but filters what he called “Mind at Large”. Seventy years later, as AI models reason, remember and create, his question returns with new urgency: what separates real understanding from imitation?

Volumetric light, lasers, floor projection, a semi-transparent LED wall, live cameras and real-time LiDAR turn the dancers into living murals, constellations and architecture – all of it choreographed with the movement and driven by an original electronic score.

The work was made over four residencies in 2026 – in Barcelona, at Orsolina28 in Moncalvo, Italy, a visual residency and at Monopol Berlin – and shown in four invitation-only performances at Monopol Berlin on 27–29 August 2026.