nobody cared about Helen

Nobody Cared About Helen is a full-length dance performance exploring force as a structuring principle that shapes bodies, speech, and social order. Drawing on the Iliad, Homer’s ancient Greek epic of the Trojan War, as well as on the French philosopher Simone Weil’s reading of it, The Iliad, or the Poem of Force, the piece forms a landscape in which force acts within human relations almost as a tangible material, capable of transforming one’s whole being. It traces the extended effects of force as it migrates far beyond the battlefield and into everyday life.

Reflecting on the storylines of figures from Greek tragedy, the piece works to collapse the comfortable distance between mythological narratives and contemporary life, tracing resonances between canonical stories and the social, political and intimate structures of the present.

Chelsea
Clementine
Cordelia
Dora
Nadja

The performers of Nobody Cared About Helen fill this landscape with owned and borrowed identities, haunted by an absent figure in whose name, supposedly, a war is fought.

Intertwining language and movement into a porous storytelling of truth and tale, the piece examines power relations not only on a physical level, but also between speech and live action. It raises questions of authorship, narrative framing and the perception of “truth.”

Premier nobody cared about Helen in Theater Rampe Stuttgart

26th November 2026, 20:00

Further Performances:

28th November 2026, 20:00

29th November 2026, 16:00

Further information : www.smadargoschen.com

Tickets on the Website : www.theaterrampe.de

Concept, Choreography & Artistic Direction: Smadar Goshen
Co-Creation & Dramaturgy: Maya Weinberg
Performance & Artistic contribution: Chelsea Reichart, Clémentine Herveux,Nadja Tabea Güsewell, Cordelia Eleonore, Dora Almeleh
Costume & Stage Design: Anna Mirkin
Original music composition: Sabrina Schray
Musical production: Sabrina Schray, Paul-Maximilian Schwarz
Technical direction & Light design: Nadja Weber
Graphic Design: Sara Tartsch
Production Management: Valentine Leuschel
Financial Produktion: Christine Koschel
Press & Communication: Maya Mayzel
Production & choreographer assistance / internship : Antonia Ziebritzki

nobody cared about Helen is a co-production with Theater Rampe, supported by the City of Stuttgart, through the conceptual funding programme of the Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V., funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart gUG, and the Péter Horváth Foundation.With the kind support of Produktionszentrum Tanz und Performance Stuttgart and Auktionen Münzhandlung Sonntag. Special thanks to Nachtsicht e.V. for their support.