Hesse said: „The artistic staging with the mission statement Mythos Gotthard uses exclusively figures and legends that come from Alpine culture. The figures mentioned were not dervishes, but dancing haystacks."
Here, director Hesse vehemently contradicts: "In the spectacle I wanted to describe out-of-itself - this is what the rotations of the dervishes and the haystack figures serve." He wanted to portray elementary forms of human ecstasy: "Every child knows that one is into another Condition gets when you turn around for a long time.“
Commenting on the objection in the interview that Sylvia Flückiger did not look at Islamism but at the allusion to a Muslim ritual as a betrayal of basic Swiss values, Hesse said: "It is perfectly legitimate for my show to contain Arabic cultural associations." He firmly believes that that archaic cults touched different cultures. These dances, which would now be portrayed as foreign Arab influences, are "elementary human forms of ecstasy". He had never thought of political polemics or expected the possibility that some viewers might get "xenophobic seizures."