The flying objects transcend into beings performing their dance of the rising winds, personifying the vulnerability of all the souls destroyed by war. Their movements are perfectly complemented by the profoundly sad and quiet music of “Sarajevo” by Max Richter, suggestive of the sound of thunder, distant and yet unsettlingly present.
The music, the thoughts of war and the constant rise and gentle fall of the flying objects provoke a touchingly emotional response, transforming them in the eyes of the beholder into souls.
Due to the current political situation, the theme of war is once again omnipresent. The outcome is always the same: people are wounded, people are killed. But what happens to those who survive? They will never be the same. Traumatized, physically and mentally ill, internally dead, barely existing, their souls wounded, will they ever be able to return to a normal life? This unspeakable horror of war accompanies us all. It is said that when the soul takes flight, the person dances. Let this dance be a plea for peace, a tender flight of souls remembering light.
Crystalle Bobbe
Crystalle Bobbe is a performance artist whose work moves between dance, circus arts, and embodied research. She was born into a family shaped by architecture, art, science, and anthropology, where difference and curiosity were a shared language. This early exposure to diverse ways of thinking continues to inform her artistic practice.
Originally trained in Paris at the Conservatoire National des Arts du Cirque et du Mime, the Académie Fratellini, and the Conservatoire de Danse Classique, Crystalle is educated in all disciplines of circus arts and dance, with a specialization in tightrope and aerial techniques. Her artistic path led her away from architectural structures toward movement, wind, and spatial freedom, where the body becomes a medium of expression when words fall silent.
Crystalle has performed internationally, including nine productions in the United States, collaborations with the Tiger Lillies, and work at the Schaubühne Berlin, where she contributed movement training and embodied dramaturgy for theatre productions. Across her practice, she is driven by the question of how emotions, memories, and inner states can be translated into physical form.
Her work is often described as bercé de mélancolie—rocked by melancholy—and engages with themes of vulnerability, loss, and remembrance. Rather than movement for its own sake, Crystalle seeks authenticity and resonance, creating atmospheric spaces in which audiences are invited into an inner journey. Her performances understand art as a form of care: a quiet, attentive practice that holds what is fragile, transient, and deeply human.
Wolfgang Wigands
Wolfgang Wigands is a Berlin-based producer, technical director and photographer. He has photographed throughout his life, alongside his work in theatre, film and live performance. Trained as a toolmaker, he later studied engineering sciences with a focus on process technology in Berlin. He co-founded Berlin’s Tempodrom, where he was responsible for lighting and sound, and oversaw the technical setup of the Bar jeder Vernunft. He toured with the GRIPS Theatre musical Linie 1 from Australia to New York and also toured with the French avant-garde circus Cirque O. His work includes special effects for film and theatre. He is vice-chair of Verein für Bewegungskunst e.V., a nonprofit cultural association in Berlin. He has produced all of Crystalle Bobbe’s performances, including MANDELA – Pilot of the Winds.
