“The cosmos is rhythm, sound, and vibration. This magnificent new dance piece by Iván Pérez, titled "Reality and the Cosmos," will neither show nor tell more, and yet that is enough. "God gave us music so that, firstly, we might be led upwards through it," wrote the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, for whom music was also the birthplace of tragedy, that culpable entanglement of humankind in its own fate on Earth. It is a specific characteristic of Pérez, who has served as artistic director of dancetheatreheidelberg since 2018, to want to address precisely this as little as possible on stage. The cosmos as a frame of reference often plays a role for him; with "Reality and the Cosmos," the Spaniard reveals himself more overtly than ever before as an artist distinguished by profound spiritual understanding.” - Alexandra Karabelas, Die Deutsche Bühne