Lucid Absurdities

When dream and reality collide

What happens when two strangers meet in a moment of waiting – and the boundaries between their inner worlds begin to crumble? In Lucid Absurdities, the audience is invited into an intense and surreal universe where dreams, memories and desires flow seamlessly into reality.

The performance begins in a recognizable space: an airport, a place of stopovers, delays and chance encounters. Two strangers are stuck in a long wait. When they fall asleep, the door to something far more unpredictable opens. They are drawn into three shared, lucid dreams where logic breaks down and their inner landscapes merge.

In this dreamscape, repressed memories, fears, and longings are given form. The resulting images are both distorted and deeply human – sometimes beautiful, sometimes disturbing. Lucid Absurdities moves elegantly between fantasy and reality, creating a powerful metaphor for how our thoughts and emotions shape our experience of the world around us.

With physical precision and emotional intensity, the performance explores the fragile point where control slips and the unconscious takes over. The result is an experience that is both challenging and fascinating, and that stays with you long after the stage lights have gone out.

Press review:

“frightening, ambiguous, and sharp” – The Guardian, The Observer

“something of definite substance” – The Guardian

“a complete vision in three dreams that struck me as sexy, frightening, ambiguous and absolutely riveting” – Barbara Newman

Lucid Absurdities fremføres av Vasiliki Papapostolou og Spiros Paltoglou

ABOUT Tarantism:

Vasiliki Papapostolou, also known as Tarantism, is an experimental dance artist from Greece whose work combines physical theatre, urban street dance and ballroom Latin. Through intricate physical expression and layered storytelling, she explores how visible and invisible forms of control shape human experience, identity and relationships.

Read more about Vasiliki's artistic work here : https://www.tarantism.work/about

Lucid Absurdities will be experienced in Lillesal at Normoria on March 3rd, at 7:00 PM.

Tickets: https://billett.oik.no/nb/buyingflow/tickets/45272/

Credits:

Choreography: Vasiliki Papapostolou aka Tarantism

Dancers: Spiros Paltoglou & Vasiliki

Papapostolou aka Tarantism

Music and sound design: Christopher Nas

Costume and Prop Design: Aphrodite Psychouli

Costume Design: Aggeliki Anagnostopoulou, Eleni Xinou