items spread on or falling onto the stage or being tossed by dancers such as feathers, rose petals, balloons, or dead leaves or flour. Costumes are sometimes trimmed with items that move, such as fringes, or make sounds, such as walnuts. The dancers also create intentional sounds by pattering their feet or sometimes shrieking or quacking. Musical choices are often diverse within a piece and are chosen for mood. In 2004 he was invited by Pina Bausch to present his 2003 Blushing and 2004 Mopey at the Tanztheater festival. His 2006 narrative choreography of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was filmed for ZDFtheaterkanal. Goecke's Nijinsky (2016) was called out by the 2022 Deutscher Tanzpreis jury as a milestone in his career. His In the Dutch Mountains (2023) was about his relationship with the Netherlands, where he studied; it was partially inspired by the 1984 novel In the Mountains of the Netherlands by Cees Noteboom and the 1987 song of the same name by the Nits. Incident with critic On 12 February 2023, Goecke smeared his dog's feces on the face of Wiebke Hüster, a dance critic whose mostly-negative review of the Nederlands Dans Theater premiere of his work In the Dutch Mountains had appeared in that day's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He confronted the Hüster during the intermission of a show including one of his works at the Hanover State Ballet, telling her that her piece had caused people to cancel their season tickets, and threatening to ban her from the premises. He then pulled out a bag of feces and smeared them on her face. Goecke said the review had angered him, and that Hüster had written only two positive pieces about his work in the twenty years she'd been covering it. He said that critics should not write in "a personal and hateful way". He said "I apologize for the fact I finally blew my top, but I also ask for a certain understanding at least for the reasons why this happened." He said he hoped to start a debate on what art critics should be allowed to say in their reviews. In the wake of the incident Goecke was charged with assault. The Hanover Opera House suspended Goecke after the incident, and on 16 February, the opera house director Laura Berman announced that "by mutual agreement", it was decided that Goecke would step down from his role as the director