Behind every meme is a truth for which we have no words.

In their new production "Hype the Pain", Miller de Nobili - winner of the Dresden 2025 funding award - turn their attention to the digital world - a space in which irony becomes a coping mechanism, where fake news spreads faster than facts and fleeting images form ideologies unnoticed. Laughter masks the pain of a prejudiced world: jokes become shields, discomfort hides behind punchlines and the call for attention becomes a performance.

Together with five dancers who combine breaking, urban styles and contemporary dance with theatrical forms, Maria Chiara de Nobili & Alexander Miller explore how online humor shapes our feelings and beliefs. Movement and fragmented voices meet in a dissonant chorus - an echo of the sensory overload and distorted reality of social media.

Is it still a game when the rules are blurred and no one knows who is pulling the strings? Are we shaping the digital age - or has it long since shaped us?