Premiere: Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin 03.2023, Snape Maltings Aldeburgh Festival UK 06.2023, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 03.2025

‘This mesmeric show was physically daring, liberating all ideas of gender and inviting acceptance of difference... The impact was provocative and ethereal’

The Guardian

The Art of Being Human is an exploration in empathy created by Sommer Ulrickson with Larry Dreyfus and ensemble Phantasm and sculptor Alexander Polzin. The polyphony of Early Music – its dissonances and harmonies – reflected in the movement of dancers’ bodies offers profound insights into the very meaning of life and our better and worse traits as human beings. 

Laurence Dreyfus and ensemble Phantasm perform English consort music of the 16th and 17th centuries on stage, with five dancers and  stage-sculptures creating an unexpected  landscape.

Photo Credit: Marcus Lieberenz