Taking Maurice Ravel’s Boléro – at once a perpetual crescendo and a surge of pure ecstasy – as their point of departure, Rykena/Jüngst embark on a humorous, sensual exploration of choreographic forms of climax in Stripping Bolero. The piece toys with climactic moments, dismantling and recomposing them while weaving in fragments from canonical dramas, dance history, and striptease. Through dance, sign language, sign language poetry, audio description, and erotic storytelling, a richly layered, multi-sensory yet accessible performance unfolds – one in which teasing and sensuality become aesthetic strategies of invitation and access. The theatrical space intensifies: tension is sustained, released, and transformed; climaxes shift; bodies collapse to the floor or narrate stories in reverse.
Tickets
Venue
schwere reiter hall
Dachauer Str. 114
80636 München
Language
- DGS DGS
- EN English
- DE German
Accessibility
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alternative seating
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audio description
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DGS (german sign language)
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Early Boarding
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Open Captioning / Surtitles
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Tactile Tour
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Wheelchair Access
All Dates
credits
Artistic Direction: Carolin Jüngst & Lisa Rykena
Performance and Co-Creation: Emil Leske, Raymond Liew Jin Pin, Lisa Rykena
Dramaturgy for Blind and Visually Impaired Audiences: Manuela Schemm, Pernille Sonne
Dramaturgy for Deaf Audiences: Eyk Kauly, Susanne Tod
Outside Eye: Matthias Quabbe
Sound Design, Music, Co-Creation of Audio Description, Voice: Raphaela Andrade Cordova
Sound Research & Sound Collaboration: Carl Hoffmann
Set Design: Lea Kissing
Costume Design: Catharina Holtgrave
Lighting Design: Ricarda Schnoor (Hamburg)
Surtitling & Access Assistance: Pauline Michel
Artistic Production Management: Rat & Tat Kulturbüro
Press and Public Relations, Audience Development: Hark Empen
PR Photography: Julian Baumann
Stage Photography: Jonas Fischer
Video Documentation: Martin Prinoth
Accessibility Assistance: Alessandra Brugnetti, Gunda Schröder
DGS Interpreters: Elisabeth Brichta, Sarah Nester, Sina Codreanu, Yvonne Trabert, Marie Schaper, Christina Müller, Noa Winand, Nicole Ostrycharczyk, Clara Bosse
production
Stripping Bolero is a production by Rykena/Jüngst and was developed in co-production with Kampnagel Hamburg and in cooperation with the HochX Theater. Stripping Bolero is part of the three-year conceptual development grant program “Erotics of Access” funded by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media. Stripping Bolero is also supported by the Department of Culture of the City of Munich and by the Performing Arts Fund, financed by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Work on the Stripping Bolero project was made possible by the kind support of our residency venues. We would like to express our sincere gratitude for their cooperation and trust to: Tanzhaus Zürich, K3 Tanzplan Hamburg, and Dance Nucleus Singapore.

biographies
Since 2016, Carolin Jüngst and Lisa Rykena have collaborated as an artistic duo, guiding audiences through worlds that range from strip clubs to vaudeville stages and queer comic conventions. Their performances celebrate bodily diversity while playfully and subversively challenging notions of the “normal.”
In co-production with Kampnagel Hamburg and HochX Munich, they have created works such as She Legend and Rose La Rose, presented at renowned festivals. Since 2019, they have also been actively engaged in advancing inclusion and accessibility in dance.
Content-Notes
Naked skin, sensitive topics such as death and dying, vibration, flashes of light
Accessibility
Artistically integrated audio description via loudspeakers; performance in German, German Sign Language (DGS), and signed poetry. A guided introduction for blind and visually impaired audience members takes place 90 minutes before the performance, including pickup from the tram stop. Flexible seating options (beanbags) are available. Enhanced seat vibrations are provided for Deaf audience members. Audience members may leave and re-enter the auditorium at any time during the performance. Surtitels are available in German and English.