Constellation #1 Dawn obliges us to dream enact some of the burning issues of our time – Countdowns, Extinction, and Future Dreaming – and brings the collective unconscious onto the stage. 

Our performative constellations are living maps, sensory sculptures, contemporary rituals where an embodied collective storytelling unfolds in the moment. Central here is that embodiment might be a fundamental feature of thinking and relating to our world. 

Through a “constellation” this work creates a live enactment of a system. Qualities within that system are made tangible and become actual patterns and figures in space. The performers become representatives who embody and “stand for” topics – such as a place, human animal, or cyclical time. A desire, question or a resource. As surrender, soil covered by concrete or a mountain. Or even a political movement, global warming or a collective dream at large.

Emotions and the unconscious, as well as analysis and the poetic become lived relations in these multi-layered performances. Where each place and collaboration result in a different version of the piece creating an anthology of several editions or “seasons”.

Premiered at 3:e Våningen in Gothenburg, Sweden September 2024. Further touring to Kautokeino (NO), Ställbergs gruva (SE) and WUK performing arts ( AT) in 2025. 

Concept by Lena Kimming, Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate Choreography by Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate Performers Ina Dokmo, Liv Schellander, Alexandra Wingate

This production is supported by 3:e Våningen, Ställbergs gruva, Västra Götaland Regional Council and The Swedish Arts Grant Committee, and ACT OUT, a project of the IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by BMEIA Austria.