Fraudulent Light – and the Epidemy of Oblivion (21 Feb 2025)

Feb 21, 2025 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Kaapeliaukio 3, 00180 Helsinki

Fraudulent Light – and the Epidemy of Oblivion is an experimental dance theatre work on the ambiguity, ecstasy and love that comes from being human.

The work is based on art history professor Jonathan Crary’s idea of the present illuminated from all directions, as a pastless and ghostless space without protective darkness.

Inspired by the choreographies of Pina Bausch and Tanztheater Wuppertal from over 40 years ago, Fraudulent Light emerges as a ‘ghost theatre’: it is loosely based on already existing forms and ideas in performing arts, on the act of remembering, on that which has existed for a long time. It both reflects the past and creates something new with the gifts it has given. Nine performers surrender to the fraudulent light and oblivion in a work that focuses on the ambiguity, ecstasy and love that comes from being human.

Fraudulent Light – and the Epidemy of Oblivion opens a fabric of scenes, visions and premonitions, recollections and experiences. It is also a performance about touch and its lack, insomnia, bodily metamorphoses, the possibility of dance and probabilities of the future; about the passage of time and melancholy, associations and absurd encounters, chaos and surrendering to it, and most of all about trust in the existence of shadows and ambiguities. 

 

Tanssin talo – Dance House Helsinki

20.-22.2.2025

Tickets 14-28€

Tanssijat ja esiintyjät makaavat paikoillaan lattialla, toisiinsa nojaten.