TAKE TIME: A Performance by DIETHILD MEIER in collaboration with SARA PONS,AARON SNYDER and EMESE CSORNAI

Two women sitting at a table, taking time.

Wouldn’t we all like to have more time? So why do we behave in exactly the opposite way, filling our time with as many things as possible? Is there an error in the equation: number of experiences = quality of life? »TAKE TIME« is an alchemical experiment designed to transform time into matter. Conscious of the impossibility of their attempt, Diethild Meier and Sara Pons choreograph a space in which time extends and compresses, passes, begins and ends, begins and ends again and again, pulsates and vibrates… until tears flow and water falls

Short project description:

TAKE TIME is a meditation, an exploration of the perception of time. It is inspired by the French philosopher Henri Bergson according to whom time is the matter we are made of – we endure, we persist by transforming. The idea that change – or movement – is the very condition for all existence serves as the choreographic framework.TAKE TIME aims less for a “correct” representation of philosophical or scientific approaches on the matter of time, but reflects our subjective, phenomenological observation of time and translates these phenomena into the theatrical space: the “passing” of time, the “standing still” of time, the beginning and the end of things; cycles, repetition and continuous change.