The work “The Garden of Falling Sands” by Mexican choreographer Yolanda Morales creates a utopian, magical place on stage – a garden bathed in a warming yellow light. A place that is fictitiously set in another cultural space: in the barren, ecologically and politically crisis-ridden desert landscape in northern Mexico. There, in Monterrey, a border town to the USA, the dances of “Cumbia Colombiana” are practiced by a young local scene as a ritual of identity and empowerment. How do new rituals emerge that can create commonalities in our increasingly fragmented societies? After intensive choreographic research on-site, Morales, her team and three dancers, bring these questions to the stage, exploring the permeability of borders and belonging in the face of the inhumane impacts of global capitalism.Wie entstehen neue Rituale, die in unseren immer weiter auseinander driftenden Gesellschaften Gemeinsamkeiten schaffen können?Nach intensiver choreografischer Recherche vor Ort bespielt Morales mit ihrem Team und drei Tänzer*innen den Theaterraum und stellt Fragen nach der Durchlässigkeit von Grenzen und Zugehörigkeiten angesichts der inhumanen Auswirkungen des globalen Kapitalismus.