Laserdragons2000 Breaking_______
What would happen if social media burst out of your phone and onto the stage?
If you could see the busy hands behind the screens competing for your attention… the invisible algorithms deciding what becomes your reality and what doesn’t?
What if you could step straight into the middle of the digital world’s wild carnival, where anything can happen in the blink of an eye… as long as it interests you…
Breaking__ is a puppet play, a circus act, an assembly manual, and a social drama all in one. It is a live-scrolling theatrical performance in which five performers rush to assemble, inhabit and dismantle scenes inspired by social-media reels and news formats, using household objects and two movable paravans.
All in real time.
Schedule
Breaking__’s live-building, content-scrolling structure becomes a live version of the burnout logic of social media: the endless work to stay visible. From inside this pressure, the piece asks how one can still look up from what one is doing and find relation, even while caught in a system that demands endless engagement. Within its tightly set score, every on-stage action is both practical and a chance for self-expression, oscillating between doing and being, performance and preparation, backstage and front.
Together, we explore what it means to be seen and to try to reach one another in a world that never stops. It becomes a collective experience in which we can laugh, wonder, recognize ourselves, and perhaps feel a little less alone.
Breaking__ is a live-scrolling theatrical performance which brings the restless logic of social media into the shared space of the theatre. Five performers race to build, inhabit and dismantle scenes inspired by reels, all in real time.
Playful, surprising, and unsettling, the performance invites us to look behind the screen and try to reach one another in a world that never stops. Or at least to have a shared-laught over the absurdity of “reality”.
Breaking__ is a fast-paced performance combining elements of physical theatre, puppetry, circus and social drama. Evoking the unstoppable momentum of social
media, its absurd, carnival-like world is at once entertaining, thought-provoking, and viscerally unsettling.
Laserdragons2000 is an international ensemble that fuses existential philosophy, dance and performance to reinvestigate the foundations of theatre as a social event, guided by the question: what escapes documentation in live-art?
Our aim is to create widely accessible performances that welcome a broad range of audiences by playfully inquiring on the mutual dependence between audience and performers in holding up the show.
We work through a training-based, research-driven practice, exploring how theatre can remain relevant in our metamodern realities.
Orchestration, Mise en scène: Balint Barabas Szigeti
Choreography: Kadence Neill
Composer: Jan Stevuliak
Lighting design: Linda Lazarov
Performers: Parya Mohajerani, Bence Huszerl, Myrsky Ylänen, Olli Kalliala, Sara Pollari
City of Helsinki, Teatteri Tuike, Tasanko Productions, Liszt Institute, Kone
Foundation
Trailer:
https://1drv.ms/v/c/51e0b1b7b0fe9fad/IQBtF69pyUYDQIAIbA8-y_jCAXyQ1NSvtvuw9UBpLIfCeng?e=suhtEs
