BERLIN The Staatsballett Berlin presents, with the world premiere of Wunderkammer on 31 October 2025 at the Komische Oper Berlin, the company’s first full-length choreography by the Artist in Residence Marcos Morau. The Spaniard was recently named «Choreographer of the Year» for the second time in the annual critics’ poll of the magazine tanz. After Overture, he now develops his second creation with the Staatsballett Berlin ensemble.

With his unmistakable stage worlds, Marcos Morau evokes familiar places and transports them into dreamlike and uncanny spheres. The title Wunderkammer refers to the historical cabinets of curiosities that in Renaissance and Baroque Europe served as collections of extraordinary and curious objects. In these Wunderkammer, the foreign and fascinating from science, art, and nature were gathered and united.

Morau addresses this theme and turns the stage in his work into a place full of surprises and unexpected perspectives to present his personal formulation of the question of the 'other': "I try to create, through the medium of theatre, a kind of ‘living Wunderkammer’ that does not collect objects but atmospheres, movements, and emotions, as a microcosm intended to reflect the complexity of human experience."

He finds inspiration in Berlin’s nightlife from the Cabarets of the Weimar Republic to the present day, which stands for freedom, difference, and rebellion against societal norms. Elements of the 1920s blend with today’s aesthetics, as reflected in the costumes by Silvia Delagneau, the set design by Max Glaenzel, and the music composed specifically for this production by Clara Aguilar and Ben Meerwein.

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