Polish Dance Theater and the bodytalk collective juxtapose ecstatic and liberating dance with the suffocating reality of pandemonium. Multiplying the title pair of characters, they simultaneously tell several love stories with the same tragic finale. Building an analogy between the scourge of the coronavirus and the epidemics of Renaissance times, they use a multi-sensory palette of means. Live music, voices ranging from whispering to shouting, carnivalesque costumes and movement exploding with youthful energy - create an expressive space for the most universal of human experiences - love and death. The Traumstadt of the title balances between a city of dreams and a city of traumas, where the eternal need for closeness collides with the compulsion of social distance, condemning loneliness and physical distance.

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Gold Yorick for the best Polish staging of Shakespeare's plays at the 26th Shakespeare Festival 2022.

Supported by funds from the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sports from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture within the framework of the "Dance" program, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance, and funds from the Local Government of the Wielkopolska Region.

Translation of the performance into Ukrainian was financed by the LEPSZY ŚWIAT Association as part of the project "Support for Ukrainian refugees" implemented from the OXFAM grant.