For a genre that unites the different disciplines – music, theatre, dance, literature and visual arts – on an equal footing and is characterised by collective, transdisciplinary work, experimental approaches, a willingness to take risks, radical thinking and relevance to the present. For a genre that is endlessly dazzling, sensual and colourful, that touches and disturbs, that can raise socially relevant issues and focus on political hotspots. For a genre that also deserves to find adequate platforms for the independent scene in Cologne that exist alongside the opera business, that make it perceptible to a potential, diverse audience that can and will be ignited and inspired! Let’s SPARK!