Kobalt Works

Opium is closely related to the solo heroïne, created in the same year 2004. A group of four women develops themes of vertical time and vertical space and questions individual freedom within structural frames of time, space and movement-architecture.

A central question of the performance is inspired by Jorge Louis Borges short story “The Aleph”, where a man discovers the experience of seeing absolutely everything in the universe in one point, simultaneously. Experiencing absolute verticality of time and space, a utopia of breaking the linearity of time and space that remind the effects of opium.

Together with the dance, American director and actor Kameron Steele performs texts by Mishima, Marinetti, MacLuhan and Borges in a violently accelerating flow of seemingly pleasing  movements, thoughts and images.