How can I meet someone in times like these? Even for a short amount of time. How does it feel to hear a stranger talking to me? How is it to hear someone sharing a piece of their life – significant, emotional and personal?
“Exercises of (b)elonging” is a one-on-one telephone performance happening live. An audience member is asked to pick up a package that contains four envelopes with phone numbers of four strangers. The performance starts in the evening at a set time for each audience member: the audience member calls the stranger, opens the envelope and surrenders to the story of the person on the other side. During the performance the audience member witnesses four intimate stories of strangers who never reveal their identity.
“Exercises of (b)elonging” is grounded in real life stories of moments or events when a person has been in the process of finding or not finding a way how to be with people around them. Themes of acceptance and the cost of fitting in are embedded in each story. The performance itself is a longing for a time when people will be able to come together once again. More importantly, “Exercises of (b)elonging” questions the understanding of togetherness and the need to define it on a personal level and beyond.
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Performances @Vabamu, Tallinn
18.03 - PREMIERE
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22.03
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24.03
Performances @Dirty Deal Teatro, Riga
To Be Announced
