Imaginary Magnitudes

Minute by minute what will happen during this hour, has already happened in the hour before.
All of today is replaced by yesterday,yesterday by the day before.
— Excerpt from the script

What happens when language is not only spoken, but also shapes a space where memory and imagination converge?
Two narrators read a script live, embodied by four largely unprepared performers. As the text unfolds, it constantly shifts between personal memories, stage directions, and poetic imagery. A recollection of a swimming pool in Ruse (Bulgaria, 1986) recurs as an organising motif, linking the everyday with magical realism.

The performance unravels as a game of interpretation and improvisation showing a visible tension arises between what is intended, what is imagined, and what actually happens. Themes such as nostalgia, bodies, architecture, pollution, sexuality, and shame are distorted, rearranged, and quite literally spoken into being.

A performance that transforms language into experience, evoking the promise of a nameless, transformative event.

CREDITS

Narrators eva susova, Zhana Ivanova Base Performers Nikolai Galvez, Panagiotis Panagiotakopolous aka Taka Taka Guest Performers Leuven 13.11: Adva Zakai, Andrea Zavala Folache & 14.11 Charlotte Nagel, Chiara Monteverde Concept, script and direction Zhana Ivanova Dramaturgy Konstantina Georgelou Process collaborators Amparo González Sola, Deniz Buga, Molly Palmer Garment advice Panagiotis Panagiotakopolous aka Taka Taka Lighting design Katinka Marac Sound design Nahuel Cano Production Helena Julian
Development support Bau Amsterdam Special thanks Sjoerd Kloosterhuis, Joel Galvez, Das Third Cycle Research Group

This project is made possible with the financial support of Mondriaan Fund.