As if We Truly Met

Trigger warning: Verbal violence and abuse

Imagined intimacy exposed

Which stories did we internalize to become who we are and to which extent can we change them? As if We Truly Met asks the essential question what shapes our understanding of ourself and each other. In this performance, you are invited to actively contribute to the answer and experience this on an emotional, intuitive and spiritual level.

Male roles of dominance, care and passion

Mime artists Nikolaj and Eland depict two young men as they make their way through life in a fever dream. To understand the events in their life better, they create stories that help them grow up. They incarnate roles of dominance, care and passion to learn the social codes of life. They learn about love.

Social manipulation magnified

As they explore the space between fiction and reality, they expose methods of manipulation. They highlight the relationships between fictional characters, the director, and performers, and between performers and the audience. The two worlds fuse in a spectacular clash, and the audience is encouraged to play an active role in their relation to the story that you see before you.

“You are smiling at me. This is your way of telling me that I belong to you and that you would keep me with you for the rest of your life. Which I would also do. We are close to each other and can talk about anything. Even if I didn’t tell the truth, you would still forgive me. I’d sit there, right there, in your lap and I would look into your eyes. In deep concentration. Breathing heavily.”