Following the successful New Delhi premiere, „Don‘t Ask, Don‘t Tell“ will be featured in North Rhine-Westphalia for the first time. The German-Indian project is cooperation between two choreographers: Ben J. Riepe from Düsseldorf and Navtej S. Johar from New Delhi. They worked together - equal parts in Germany as well as in India - with an international cast of dancers and musicians. Singer Carolina Rüegg, musician João Bento and four dancers act in tableaux-like scenes in which cultural convention and the relation of sexual desire and its representation on stage come into focus. Both choreographers challenge the boundaries and possibilities inherent in a live performance, scrutinise stereotypes in Indian and contemporary European dance while concentrating on the individuality of the performers in atmospherically dense scenes.