Belle Santos & Emi Ogura: MORNING TIME

The performance MORNING TIME explores these questions in a time when grieving seems difficult to access but is so often needed. Losing a close person disrupts everything and society invents rituals to bridge the void left behind. But what happens when these rituals are over? And what about erosions one experiences that don’t find an echo in society? When silences grow heavier, and the body carries an absence, a space and a time is needed in which one can simply be with what remains. In ancient times, professional mourners were thus called. Their work helped the bereaved to enter their state of grief, and allow the transition to the life after. 

In MORNING TIME, the Sophiensæle Kantine is covered with simple white sheets, which serve as projection surfaces, working materials, landscapes and fabric. In relation to them, a unique system of care, presence and work unfolds.

The sheets begin to dance. 

„During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, an apprehension of illness, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.”

Blue Nights, Joan Didion


WITHOUT LANGUAGE