Across Time

It is hardly surprising that conflict, a ubiquitous concept, finds itself at the core of human storytelling. The performance Across Time draws its materials from a universe of references, quotations, and allusions to imagery, text, or sound from antiquity to the present day, interwoven with original materials. In doing so, it composes elements of different poems, stories, myths, or expressions, towards the performative analogue of intertextuality, through which it seeks to intuit certain aspects of the subject matter. From references to classic, universally recognisable works, to hints toward more esoteric inspirations, tied together with original choreography, music, and text, the work does not attempt to answer any questions, nor is it a puzzle that demands a singular solution. Rather, it is meant to communicate the core constituents of the causality of conflict, like fear, facets of rationality and belief, intolerance, mass psychology, and more, as found in the body of artistic works that makes us, individually, but also as a social unit, who we are.