Anima Obscura is a sumptuous total work of art merging choreography, video performance, animation, holograms, costume design and live music. The digital technologies challenge the expressive possibilities of dance and together create an innovative, sensual theatrical experience. 

In her first production for Scapino as artistic director, Nanine Lanning explores the desire for immortality: from the occult practices of alchemists, to experiments by biohackers. The dancers are the protagonists in the search for that one elixir that makes us invulnerable and enables us to escape our earthly limitations. 

The performance features Johannes Brahms‘ Ein Deutsches Requiem, cut with Yannis Kyriakides’ Ein Schemen – a contemporary ‘re-composition’ for choir, harp and electronics. The music will be performed live by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Laurens Symphonic and harpist Remy van Kesteren.