A Moment When Everything Stops

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A Moment When Everything Stops

Performance - Poesis of celestial bodies in cyclical motion

collaborator

2025

How long before the next great turn? Who will be here to witness it?

Physics. The Earth rotates on its axis at 1600 km/h. The speed at which the Sun moves around the Galaxy is about 792,000 km/h. The Milky Way spins at 270 km/s, and it takes about 200 million years to complete one revolution. That’s how fast we’ll be hurtling through space during the performance. — Anita Wach

We move in cycles – chasing, resisting, yielding. Bodies caught between force and restraint, testing the edges of their habits, the weight of inertia. Some push forward, faster, faster – others hold back, pulling against the current, one lingers at the edge of stillness, refusing the rush. Time is not given; it is measured in effort, stretched and bent by our will, a quiet defiance against the inevitable pull. Tangled in the gravity of our own desires, we trace invisible orbits, turning towards or away from something. How long before the next great shift? Who will be here to witness it? And does it matter if we keep moving? — Kristina Aleksova

Choreography of celestial bodies
Kristina Aleksova
Choreographic narrations
Anita Wach
Performed by
Loup Abramovici, Polett Kasza, Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova
Music
Eduardo Raon
Objects
Matej Stupica
Light design
Špela Škulj
Producer
Špela Trošt
Production
Via Negativa
Co-production
Zavod Sploh
Co-organiser
Cukrarna/MGML, as part of the Performativa IV Performativa IV. • Cukrarna programme cycle
Partner
DSPS
Thanks
Bojan Stefanović, Tomo Per

The original idea was conceived by Kristina Aleksova in the frame of Ventilator cycle - Soft Power organised by Zavod Sploh in 2023.

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