We live in a time where contact increasingly happens at a distance — mediated, filtered, fragmented. Longing for Belonging investigates the longing that persists nonetheless: to be in the same room, to sense another person’s presence, to navigate the difficult and necessary act of being together.

Seated around the performance space, the audience becomes backdrop, witness and presence all at once — not simply watching the dancers, but meeting them: seen as much as seeing, present to another presence rather than looking at a spectacle.

The work moves through a suggestive environment of movement and sound; shared structures take form and dissolve. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

Fläta exists in two versions: a full-scale blackbox version with set and lighting design, and a version adapted for galleries and alternative venues.

Matta is an immersive dance piece where performers and audience inhabit a shared spatial landscape, with no designated front or fixed viewpoint: spectators are invited to sit, stand, lie down, or move through the space, thus becoming a part of the performance.

The experience begins upon arrival, as visitors gradually pass through a sequence of thresholds into the temporal atmosphere of the work. Entering shoeless onto a soft-floor environment, the space unfolds like terrain rather than a traditional stage.
Within this shared landscape, three dancers navigate states of closeness, resistance, yielding, and listening.

The work unfolds through a tightly interwoven dramaturgy of movement, sound, and light: a live electroacoustic score samples subtle textures of movement and environment in real time, while light shapes an evolving architecture of shadow, visibility, and attention.

Because of the intimate format and limited per-show capacity, the work is well suited to be presented back to back and twice in one day.