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lali Ayguadé:

This piece is an exploration of human imbalance — a journey through the contrasts that define our emotional and physical states. We walk on uncertain paths, constantly shifting, never settling. It is a search for the place where balance dissolves, and something raw is revealed. We move between extremes: from madness to serenity, from weeping to deep, unspoken sorrow, from power to utter fragility. These opposites do not cancel each other — they coexist, they clash, they dance.

This is not a narrative in the traditional sense. There is no resolution, no fixed structure. Instead, there is a continuous transformation — of bodies, of energies, of emotional landscapes. Instability becomes our language, our playground, our truth. In that zone — fragile, trembling, beautiful — we invite the audience to witness the stories that emerge. Not stories with beginnings and ends, but fragments, echoes, impulses. The body remembers what the mind forgets. The body trembles when words fail. We do not seek to explain, but to evoke. To allow the instability itself to speak. (warm up included)

shannon gillen:

You are falling, but you never land. I imagine a world suspended in contradiction, a scene constantly in motion, shifting characters, states, and place. Inspired by the existential absurdity and the inescapable presence of violence, SUSPENDED lives in the tension between devastation and dream, chaos and stillness, grotesque and beauty. Set against an original electronic score by Marshall Chadbourne, a figure dangles in space, caught between descent and delay, echoing a collective state of limbo. Here, we are both haunted and held, no longer asking where we are going or when we will land, instead falling over and over again, as long as the world holds.

About the Process:
I approach creation through both a physical and conceptual lens. Behavior rising into high physicality is a portal into surreal, emotional and imaginative territory. The combustible space between bodies is a dial and valve for pressure. The audience is present. Through this shared language, we’ll excavate the characters and landscapes of SUSPENDED. Exchange, creative harmony, friction, and risk-taking are at the core of VIM’s work. I will propose movement, original writing, themes, images, scenes, and tasks; your interpretations and responses—wild, grounded, or unexpected—are equally part of the piece’s evolution. I believe in a process shaped by narrative-driven happenings colliding with flung counterpoint characters or events—a space where our disparate perceptions generate something uncanny, yet collectively known. The goal isn’t to build a linear story, but to inhabit a world together—one that drifts between war-torn realities and surreal dream-states, tethered by movement, memory, and the absurd hope that endures even when we seem to be going nowhere. Where the weight of human experience lies in its emotional truth more than its accuracy, and where time bends and collapses into childlike loops: are we there yet? (warm up included)

performance starts at 19:30pm at dock 11, Kastanienallee 79 berlin / 10435 Berlin

lali's piece is first and shannon's piece is second.