THE FISH WHO FOUND THE SEA

Music and Dance Performance with a Water Sound Installation


In The Fish Who Found the Sea, the magnificent cloak room of the National Theatre in Munich is transformed into an underwater world. The audience encounters a group of fish dancing their way through the sea. Among them is a small fish thinking so hard about his ability to swim that it panics and no longer knows how to move at all. Only after a long search does he realise he has known it all along, has been in a loving and supporting community all along.

The Fish Who Found the Sea is based on the same-titled story by British philosopher, writer and buddhist theorist Alan Watts. It is the first and only story he ever wrote for children. Central to all of Watts’  works is the question of what the conditions for happiness and contentment might be.


Premiered September 24th, 2022 at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich


Director: Franziska Angerer
Choreography: Charlotte Edmonds
Correpetition Dance: Thomas Mayr
Dance: Judith Seibert, Severin Brunhuber, Sinéad Bunn
Live Music, Narration and Sound Installation: Christine Börsch-Supan
Ballett Music: Katya Richardson
Stage: Dieter Eisenmann
Costumes: Charlotte Edmonds/ Susanne Stehle
Dramaturgy: Serge Honegger
Director‘s Assistent: Magdalena Padrosa Celada
Video: Lea Heutelbeck
Light: Franz-Leonhard Zels
Photos: Ksenia Orlova/ Wilfried Hösl


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