The Baroque era, with its insights into cosmology and mechanics, created the image of the universe as a delicate clockwork. The choreographer Paula Rosolen takes up this baroque understanding of the world in order to radicalize and deconstruct it from the perspective of our present-day attitude to life. We experience the rapid pace of technological progess as well as the constant flood of information as a continuous acceleration of the always-same, in which we sometimes feel like a cog in a wheel. It causes us dizziness and at the same time a feeling of stagnation, whereby we increasingly question our certainty about our place in the world.

In a continuous dance of opposites, history and contemporaneity combine in Orbis to form a hypnotic kaleidoscope in which the boundaries between eras and their styles become blurred: between movements that follow baroque floor motifs and dance notations, animals and machines of a futuristic character appear. Contrasting images converge in a constantly changing circular system in which the slightest change can lead to unpredictable results. In the maelstrom of disorientation, a new possibility space of timelessness and universal connection with the world thus opens up, in which mankind is incessantly evolving in the web of infinite contingencies.