Boxing time.

A performance on performance – on time as a commodity, pre-rendered timeframes and the pain and beauty of being-together.

Waiting for something to happen. Waiting doesn’t happen. Waiting just… there. 

“[W]e all know that an hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash according to how we spend it. Time is life itself and life resides in human heart.” 

“Sixty times sixty is three thousand six hundred, which makes three thousand six hundred seconds in an hour. There are twenty four hours in a day, so multiply three thousand six hundred by twenty-four to find the number of seconds in a day and you arrive at a figure of eightysix thousand four hundred. There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, as you know, which makes thirty-one million five hundred and thirtysix thousand seconds in a year, or three hundred and fifteen million three hundred and sixty thousand seconds in ten years.” 

Sleep 441,504,000 seconds
Work 441,504,000 seconds
Meals 110,376,000 seconds
Mother 55,188,000 seconds
Shopping, etc. 55,188,000 seconds
Friends, social club, etc. 165,564,000 seconds
Daydreaming 13,797,000 seconds
GRAND TOTAL: 1,283,121,000 seconds

Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Time. Times. Times. Times. Times. Times. Time. Times. Times. Times. Times. Emits. Items.

The performance’s concept and title are inspired by Michael Ende’s novel Momo.

Orchestration, Mise en scène: Balint Barabas Szigeti
Choreography: Kadence Neill
Composer: Jan Stevuliak
Lighting design: Linda Lazarov
Performers: Bence Huszerl, Myrsky Ylänen, Olli Kalliala, Sara Pollari

language: English, Finnish (the performance does not require any language skills)
duration: 90min.