In the performative installation “Geteilte Echos,” choreographer Miriam Jakob navigates through multi-layered relationships with an alpine scree slope on stage, exploring the perceived standstill of a mountain before its collapse. In an equally poetic and laboratory-like arrangement, she delves into parallels between an aging mountain and herself. Within the stage landscape, different levels of representation overlap among stone props, digital point clouds, and zones of human and rocky weakness, revealing fragile experiences of a mountain world in constant flux. Moving away from alpine idyll, Miriam Jakob exposes herself and her audience to seismographically representable vibrations from within the mountain. These unheard vibrations and the mountain’s fragility set everything in motion, unsettling thought itself. The theatrical apparatus invites exploration of one’s own instabilities along the mountain using all available means.

In her research for “Geteilte Echos,” Miriam Jakob collaborated with dancer Arantxa Martínez, sensual ethnographer Dr. Susanne Schmitt and sound artist Felix Claßen, initially on-site in the Allgäu Alps and in dialogue with scientists from the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam. This intensive artistic-scientific exchange about the crumbling mountain Hochvogel became an important metronome for the multi-layered reflection on upheaval and the power of transformation within the performance.