The Space

It is a crucial part of our collective to experiment with the site-specific aspect, since we believe that this form of improvisation and collaboration gives birth to a wonderful experience in the creation art, where we react to the space and the crowd. Whatever the space, we can transform it in a way that drives our performances and narratives.

We like to invite local and present artists to participate in our performances, to add their own touch or form of art. If this is a desired aspect we can arrive up to two weeks before the festival to create a kind of creative hub which will work on a site-specific experience unique to your festival.

The Projections

A path to the village is now lit by LEDs. The music changes. Two projectors turn on. They are directed at the ground, at people and a cinema screen hangs in the space around. Six hours of experimental films from a diverse collection called DREAMS are looped, exploring ancient and digital trance, religion and emotions. At times the sound turns off and electronic musicians play improvised live sets over the looping films, creating completely new and unique experiences.

The films and the music take us on a journey to the edges of our perception, of our senses and make us connect with worlds we don´t see but sense deep within us.
People get absorbed by this flow; they stay and watch. They let the energy take them over and at some point may continue their journey.

Through the mysterious form of moving image, we offer:
– Multi-screen A/V installations incorporating nature and visitors
– Live ritualistic cinema performances (VJ’ing) with music/sound design by both modern and traditional musicians
– Collaborative performances with live projections, such as acrobatics, circus and dance

At one point in the night, performers appear out of nowhere and interact with the films.
The films are now projected on their bodies. They play together, they interact.
They perform improvised site-specific performances that a unique combination of circus artists, musicians, dancers and visual artists have created before the festival.

The combinations of artists include:
– Live electronic performances by various invited musicians
– Contemporary dance i.e. Buto, a unique post-war japanese dance
– Aerial acrobatics (Silk / Aerial hoop / Trapeze)
– Fire dance (torches, fire fans, hula hoop, contact staff, fire breathing etc.)
– Hula hoop routines (simple or with LED or fire)
– Pantomime / Theatre

Out of these various possibilities for the night performance, there are single numbers already fixed for one big choreography (according to the performers which will be collaborating). After the performances slowly fade out, the space is recaptured by the projected lights, films and music. We will be free to rest in our own thoughts, in our imagination or to let us flow and to continue our journeys. 

As the sun rises the mysterious and dark energy slowly fades out; the experimental music is turned off. Light and warmth take over; the space transforms once more into a welcoming, gentle atmosphere and abandons the intensive energy of night.

Until the next fall of light.