“when you start to sing yourself in the deep dark forest”

FacingX. An antimusical on temporality

While I’m writing these words the waltz of the blue danube haunts me, it is crawling under my skin, completely imbue, maybe it is in the space between the letters.

What is the X we’re trying to face?
Does X open to interpretation or X opens interpretation? Where does the urge to make music, to dance, to move, to talk, to build culture come from? Where could it lead?

We’d like to have a shared moment with the audience to meditate on these questions and experience the beauty of farewell, the moment we start to hear our own breath.

facingX is a theatre-dance piece which celebrates while making fun of music and culture as the most sophisticated remedy against silence and our nothingness. It is a commemoration, a celebration of extinction.

The performance attempts to reestablish human’s connection with the void, all the while investigating how experiencing temporality creates togetherness.

Language: English, Finnish (can be enjoyed without understanding a word)
Duration: 75 min

Mise an scene: Balint Barabas Szigeti
Choreography: Kadence Neill
Performers: Olli Kalliala, Jenni Murtonen, Vivi Kangasniemi, Li Krook
Composer: Jan Stevuliak

Special thanks:
Rita Csáky-Bogár and the Budapest Strauss Symphonic Orchestra for the Blue Danube
Third Planet for providing the song To Be Gone
Maze-Kalauz Márton for the song: Melankólikus Dallam
Overflow for the G6 remix
Olli Kalliala for the song: Mä en aio
and Ben Neill for The Chase