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

An antimusical on temporality, extinction, and the sounds of farewell.

What happens when we stop filling the void with sound? When silence becomes political, and stillness becomes music?

facingX is a non-spectacle, a meditation on temporality set against the backdrop of extinction. It exists in the liminal space between theatre and dance, questioning human connection and the essence of movement itself. In this shared moment with the audience, we listen together—to music, to silence, to our own breath.

Both a celebration and a satire of culture’s most sophisticated remedies against nothingness—classical music, language, performance—facingX explores the urge to create, to resist silence, to push back against the void. It is a farewell, a commemoration, and a love letter to humanity.

This international collaboration brings together an American choreographer, a Hungarian artistic researcher, Finnish actors, and a Slovakian composer.

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

language: English, Finnish (the performance does not require any language skills)
duration: 75 min
notes: audience participation