about us

nothing_happens is an international performance group that fuses existential philosophy, dance, and theatre to reinvestigate the foundations of performance as a social event. Through relational dramaturgy, we create playful and fragile encounters where risk and failure open space for shared presence, foregrounding the agency of the audience rather than positioning them as passive spectators.

We aim to expand theatre’s reach by creating accessible and entertaining performances that welcome a broad range of audiences. Rather than denying the desire for spectacle or imagination, we render them unstable—bringing them into a shared time and space where they can be questioned and reimagined.

Our shows transform the audience’s inclination toward wonder, their hunger for novelty, and the alienating acceleration of contemporary life into a playful, community-making force, centered on the fragility of images, beliefs, and representation.
By engaging with the instability of truth as lived reality, we propose a theatre beyond “(post-)dramatic” conventions and rigid categorizations—an epic-theatrical approach redefined for contemporary perception.

We work through a training-based, research-driven practice, exploring how theatre can remain relevant in our metamodern realities.