IMAGINARIUM
IMAGINARIUM is an immersive sensory performance that unfolds in nuances of darkness, where perception shifts and dreamlike speculative realities take form.
At the centre of the piece lies a speculative premise: what if we humans could attune to other species through the senses, forming temporary symbiotic relations with each other? Without representing these encounters directly, IMAGINARIUM opens a space where boundaries between human and non-human begin to blur, and new forms of relations can emerge.
Within this shared darkness, imagination becomes a sensory experience in its own right, as something that can be activated and explored. As vision recedes, other ways of sensing intensify, opening a space where presence is no longer anchored in what is seen, but in what is heard, touched, smelled and imagined.
Through choreography, fragmented text, tactile scenography and sonic realms, the audience is immersed into shifting states between here and elsewhere, now and future. Worlds appear and dissolve, as if continuously being made and unmade, to grasp and yet to let pass. The performance is experienced from within rather than observed from a distance, leaving subtle, lingering traces in how reality is perceived afterwards.
Darkness functions both as a physical condition and a catalyst: it alters habitual perception and opens access to alternative modes of attention and relation. From this shift, imagination becomes a shared practice and an embodied way of sensing possibilities.
The team
Artistic concept Beyond Darkness
Choreographic director Nadja Mattioli
Co-choreographs Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and the performers
Dancers Ruth Rebekka Hansen and Cecilie Kjær
Costumes and set design Lærke Bang Barfod
Sound Eliza Bozek
Light Raphael Frisenvænge Solholm
Text Nadja Mattioli
Producer Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen
Produced by Beyond Darkness and Aaben Dans
