Normality No More in Chassé Theater

What is actually normal? And who determines that? In Normality No More – a fusion of musical theatre, contemporary dance, and classical music – three top ensembles take you into a neurodiverse experiential world. Boundaries blur between normal and strange, neurotypical and neurodiverse, spectator and participant. Where do you sit on the spectrum?

A bestseller in classical music, Schubert's Winterreise, is dissected to the bone and rebuilt anew. In the original Winterreise , the protagonist embarks on a lonely, wintry journey after being abandoned by his love. In search of inner peace, but tormented and haunted by memories, he is left despairingly behind on the ice. In Normality No More, modern dance, musical theatre, and classical music merge into a new version: an ode to the divergent brain and a call for understanding and empathy for people who experience the world differently from the majority.

Here, all dancers, musicians, and actors play a character inspired by both personal experiences and scientific research on neurodiversity. They showcase their strength and vulnerability, embrace their own diversity, and at the same time, yearn for social integration. The audience experiences what it is like to inhabit the skin of those who are seen as 'strange' and discovers the unique, multifaceted, and wondrous qualities of the neurodiverse individual.