cie. toula limnaios: »jeux«

Inspired by philosophical thoughts and suggestions ranging from Plato to Nietzsche and Bergson, the new production by cie. toula limnaios unfolds in a series of ‘tableaux vivants’, a ‘narrated time’ in which images intertwine, merge and dissolve. The interpreters engage in a confusing puzzle, a game that transports them into formlessly flowing states.

Is life an endless cycle? Does not the moment also hold the possibility of a new beginning? Or is life a moving image of motionless eternity – a perception of time that is only a reflection of an eternal order? How do people perceive time, what is timeless, and what does ‘duration’ mean in the face of a constantly changing world and the finite nature of human existence? Could there be an invisible continuity in the overlaps of past, present and future, even if change seems to be the only constant? Time passes, but it also lasts: a paradox.

In the thicket of these thoughts and questions, ‘jeux’ is an imaginative experimental set-up to look a little deeper behind the constructions and deconstructions of human existence, to question the non-simultaneous in the simultaneous. And it is a plea for meaningful creativity, for the creative, the playful and the positive possibilities of human beings – alongside the urgency of life and the pressure of everyday life – to be able to change the world. And it starts with playing.