In Tableaux Vivants, visual art, choreography and music enter a shared space of transformation. Works by Roland Rauschmeier do not appear as static objects on stage, nor does dance serve to illustrate them. Instead, images, bodies and sounds encounter one another as equal forces within a composition that constantly shifts its balance. What emerges is a performance that does not stabilise perception, but keeps it in motion.

The work unfolds where fine art and choreography meet without merging into one another. Sculptural forms, pictorial references and moving bodies remain distinct, yet they continually influence the way each element is seen and understood. This creates a stage situation in which stillness carries tension, movement produces images, and visual composition becomes a temporal experience. The performance invites the audience to look not for fixed meaning, but for relations that appear, dissolve and reconfigure in time.

Developed by Anne Juren and Roland Rauschmeier, Tableaux Vivants treats the stage as a living arrangement of material, presence and attention. The performers do not simply inhabit a visual setting. They activate it, interrupt it and transform it. In this process, Johannes Maria Staud’s music becomes a decisive partner. It structures duration, intensifies perception and gives the work its particular rhythmic and dramaturgical force.

The strength of Tableaux Vivants lies in its refusal of clear borders. It moves between image and event, object and body, composition and action. In doing so, it opens a perceptual field in which seeing itself becomes unstable, physical and alive. The work remains compelling because it understands performance not as the presentation of finished forms, but as a space in which forms emerge through encounter.